Mat X and JD catch up with Shania about being on call, new laptop purchasing, dongles, lost devices, and more.
June 15-17, 2022 – https://mdoyvr.com
Hosts:
Shania, Mat X and JD
SPONSORS for MDOYVR 2022 conference:
Baez Cloud
Felipe Baez joins MatX and JD to talk about setting up his own cloud and email server, thoughts on the new Mac Studio, and forecasting what might be in the new Mac Pro.
Trigger Warning: Discussion of running one’s own email server.
June 15-17, 2022 – https://mdoyvr.com
Hosts:
Mat X and JD
Guests:
Felipe Baez (Twitter) (YouTube)
Links:
Upgrade from Google legacy edition
Reduced security on Apple Silicon (how to enable)
Audio Hijack – route audio (and record)
Videos:
MDOYVR conference time lapse video
SPONSORS for MDOYVR 2022 conference:
So Many Talks
Join Mat X and JD in a planning session for the 2022 MacDevOps YVR Conference, where they discuss perks for speakers, calls for volunteers, and a movie night.
June 15-17, 2022 – https://mdoyvr.com
Videos:
MDOYVR 2016 – Osquery or it didn’t happen – Allister Banks
MDOYVR 2017 – Macnarok – Michael Lynn
SPONSORS for MDOYVR 2022 conference:
Log All The Data with Tom and Dan from Snowflake
Co-hosts JD and Mat X talk with Tom and Dan from Snowflake about logging all the data. Everything! Osquery, FleetDM, and what do you do with 400TB of logs.
Hosts:
Mat X and JD
Guests:
Tom and Dan (Twitter)
Lol we have 200 TB of osquery data
— Daniel (@Daniel_Infosec) February 18, 2022
Links:
Snowflake osquery Fleet magic (tlark GitHub blog post)
Munki (open source macOS software management)
Gorilla (Munki for Windows)
Acronyms:
SCIM (System for cross-domain Identity Management)
RBAC (Role based access control)
FIM (Osquery File integrity monitoring)
Videos:
MDOYVR17 – Osquery and Streamalert – Sam Keeley
MDOYVR18 – QuickTalk – Henry Stamerjohann – How to get them SHAS
Per Oloffson MunkiReport Quick Fix
Co-hosts JD and Mat X meet with MacAdmins legend Per Olofsson, aka Mager Valp, to discuss the recent MunkiReport quick fix and how open source is fun.
Hosts:
Mat X and JD
Guest:
Per Olofsson (Mager Valp: Twitter / GitHub)
Links:
Videos:
MunkiReport and the story of Open Source (MDO YVR 2019)
MunkiReport workshop (MDO YVR 2020)
MunkiReport v6 demo (MDO YVR 2021)
SPONSORS for MDOYVR 2022 conference:
Hackindockertosh
Mat X and JD discuss the call for sponsors, speakers, ticket sales, and more for the upcoming MacDevOps YVR Conference.
Hosts:
Mat X and JD
Links:
MDO:YVR conference, June 15-17, 2022
Enroll macOS Beta Seed without profile installation
Videos:
Prima Virani – Marie Kondo of Code
Co-hosts JD and Mat X meet with past MDO speaker Prima Virani to discuss AWS, Kubernetes, Go vs. Python, and surprise: osquery and fleetDM.
Hosts:
Mat X and JD
Guest:
Links:
Prima’s post on Automate Ourselves Out of On-Call Burnout
File Integrity Monitoring with osquery
SOCless: automated security run books
Book Suggestion:
MDO YVR 2019 conference video:
Prima Virani – Building Resilient Security Log Pipelines with Chaos
Embracing Risk – SRE Book Club Part 4
Jonathan, Balmas, and Brian join Mat X and JD to discuss Chapter 3 for this fourth meeting of the SRE Book Club.
Themes:
Embracing risk. The group discusses error budgets and how you can’t have perfect uptime.
Hosts:
Mat X
Guests:
Jonathan, Balmas, and Brian
Links:
SRE fundamentals – SLI SLO SLA
MDOYVR talks:
Piero Mamberti – KanBan is your friend
Jonathan Haenchen – Quick Talk – Your DevOps Helpdesk
Mike McNeil FleetDM
Co-hosts JD and Shania join Mat X to discuss Osquery and Security with guest Mike McNeil, FleetDM’s CEO.
Hosts:
Shania, Mat X, and JD
Guest:
Mike McNeil, FleetDM (CEO)
Links:
Acronyms:
- TLA – Three Letter Acronym
- EDR – Endpoint Detection & Response
- RMM – Remote Monitoring & Mediation
Musical inspiration:
Terrible But Necessary – SRE Book Club Part 3
We discuss Chapter 2 for this third meeting of the now infamous SRE Book Club.
Themes:
How to apply DevOps and SRE concepts to your entire org. How do you troubleshoot a process and not just a problem? Don’t forget about User experience. Bonus pointsing: avoid Single Points of Failure and creating more tech debt.
Hosts:
Mat X
Guests:
Brandon, Balmas, and Brian
Links:
Borg – Google’s Large scale cluster management
Colossus – Google’s Scalable storage system
SRE fundamentals – SLI SLO SLA
Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures(CVE)
Jira – plan track and release software
Windows – Chocolatey and Gorilla
MDOYVR talks:
Piero Mamberti – KanBan is your friend