Episodes | MacDevOpsYVR

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:

Tickets for MDOYVR 2022

Jan-Piet Mens – “jo” a shell command to create JSON

JQ – lightweight and flexible JSON processor

https://www.json.org/json-en.html

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logs4ever

Published: 2021-12-21

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/

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Back to conference planning finally

Published: 2021-12-14

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

Apple embracing OSS?

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BK’s Bot Army aka SRE BookClub Part 1

Published: 2021-11-30

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:

SRE (Book)

The Keys to SRE by Ben Treynor (Video)

DevOps vs. SRE (YouTube / Google)

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Afraid to commit

Published: 2021-11-09

Mat X, and JD talk about the upcoming SRE Bookclub, too many tabs, scripting slack bots, Teleport project, and the Final Cut Summit conference.

Hosts:

Mat X, and JD

Links:

SRE Book

The Keys to SRE (Ben Treynor)

DevOps vs SRE (YouTube / Google)

Teleport – remote access tool

Wireguard (open source mesh vpn)

Tailscale (mesh vpn as a service)

Stack overflow (answers to coding problems)

Final Cut Pro Global Summit 2021

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SRE Book Club Planning

Published: 2021-11-02

Mat X, Shania, and JD talk about the upcoming SRE Bookclub, MacDevOps call for Sponsors, new laptops and more.

Hosts:

Shania, Mat X, and JD

Links:

SRE Book

The Keys to SRE (Ben Treynor)

DevOps vs SRE (YouTube / Google)

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Life Work Balance of an SRE with Sophie Smithsburg

Published: 2021-10-26

Mat X and JD chat with reformed SRE, Sophie Smithsburg about the differences of DevOps and SRE, finding a life work balance from pager duty, and cooperative software development.

Hosts:

Mat X, and JD

Guests:

Sophie Smithsburg (@heartpunkk)

Links

The Keys to SRE (Ben Treynor)

Nicole Forsgren Ph.D.

Accelerate: The Science of Lean Software and DevOps: Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations Authors: Nicole Forsgren, Ph.D, Jez Humble and Gene Kim

SRE vs Harm reduction (Heartpunkk Twitter)

DevOps vs SRE (YouTube / Google)

Sophie’s Patreon. Creating radical tech and writing experiments