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
One service level at a time – SRE Book Club Part 2
Brandon, Jennifer, Balmas, and Brian join Mat X and JD to discuss Chapter 1 in-depth for this second part of the SRE Book Club.
Hosts:
Mat X and JD
Links:
Learning git with Git related MDOYVR videos:
Spoorthy Seenappa – Intro to Git
Joe Chilcote – GitHub – Contributing to Open Source
Jon Crain – GitHub Actions for the Mac Admin
William Theaker – (Quick Talk) Running Autopkg with GitHub Actions
Interview:
MacAdmin Monthly talks to the Google MacOps team
Monitoring:
Management (MDM):
microMDM
nanoMDM
SimpleMDM (Gold Sponsor for MDOYVR conf 2022)
Conferences:
Garbage In, Garbage Out
Happy New Year! Co-hosts JD and Shania join Mat X to discuss MDO YVR 2022 conference planning and garbage management as we kick off the new year by cleaning out tech debt.
Hosts:
Shania, Mat X and JD
Links:
Jan-Piet Mens – “jo” a shell command to create JSON
logs4ever
Mat X and JD close out the year with a few conference announcements and discussion of log4j, security vulnerabilities, patching, bounties, projects and predictions.
Hosts:
Mat X and JD
Links:
Log4j:
CISA guidance –
https://www.cisa.gov/uscert/apache-log4j-vulnerability-guidance
https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/article/important-message–security-vulnerability-java-edition
Log4Shell: RCE 0-day exploit found in log4j 2, a popular Java logging package
https://www.lunasec.io/docs/blog/log4j-zero-day/
Security:
Csaba Fitzl (Twitter) – https://twitter.com/theevilbit
Csaba Fitzl ((Blog) – https://theevilbit.github.io/posts/
MacDevOps:YVR 2022:
MDOYVR Conference Sponsors – https://mdoyvr.com/sponsors/
SimpleMDM and Munki:
MacVFX (Blog) – Munki and SimpleMDM – https://macvfx.blog/2021/12/17/munki-makes-mdm-manageable/
SimpleMDM (blog) Munki integration – https://simplemdm.com/munki-integration/
Getting Started with Munki (MDOYVR 2015 video) – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWWzaqM-LHU
Elliot Jordan (GitHub) – Recipe Robot – https://github.com/homebysix/recipe-robot
Raspberry Pi:
Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W – https://www.raspberrypi.com/products/raspberry-pi-zero-2-w/
The Python Imaging Library – https://pillow.readthedocs.io/en/stable/
Monitoring:
PRTG – https://www.paessler.com/prtg/features
Grafana – https://grafana.com/grafana/
Zabbix – https://www.zabbix.com/
ELK Stack (Elastic, LogStash, Kibana) – https://www.elastic.co/what-is/elk-stack
Is my Cloud down?
Down Detector – https://downdetector.ca/
AWS Status – https://status.aws.amazon.com/
Back to conference planning finally
Mat X is joined by co-hosts JD and Shania to discuss MDO 2022 planning, tickets, call for speakers along with documentation in Notion, the AWS outage, and security issues stemming from tech debt.
Hosts:
Mat X, JD and Shania
Links:
Notion. More than a documentation tool
BK’s Bot Army aka SRE BookClub Part 1
Mat X is joined by friends to talk about Chapter 1 in Google’s Site Reliability Engineering book. We talk about Error Budgets, Automation vs. Autonomous systems, and BK’s Bot Army, our newest MDO fan club.
Hosts:
Mat X
Guests:
Brandon K, Brian W, and Jon C
Links:
The Keys to SRE by Ben Treynor (Video)
DevOps vs. SRE (YouTube / Google)