Welcome to Keepin' It Secure. The HashiCast show about security trends, cloud adoption challenges, and security innovation. Join your hosts Devops Rob & DevOps Adeel as we tackle the complexities of cloud security, and industry-wide challenges.

Keepin' It Secure

Welcome to the CHANGELOG series, where we talk about the latest releases from HashiCorp, an IBM company.

CHANGELOG

This episode features Laura Santamaria, Developer Advocate at LogDNA.

Join us as we chat with Laura about tips on overcoming imposter syndrome, speaking to audiences, what exactly Developer Advocacy is, and learning. We'll also find out how Laura & Tracy met!

Episode 27 - Laura Santamaria, LogDNA [Part 1]

Part 2 of this episode continues our chat with Laura Santamaria, Developer Advocate at LogDNA.

Join us as we continue to chat with Laura about Developer Advocacy and learning languages.

Episode 27 - Laura Santamaria, LogDNA [Part 2]

This episode features HashiCorp's Anubhav Mishra, advisor to the CTO, and Paul Banks, engineering lead for HashiCorp Consul.

Join us as we chat with Mishra and Paul about the Consul Global Scale Benchmark! Go behind the scenes as we discuss how they built the benchmarks, what they measured, and what challenges they faced in testing and building a service mesh. We also learn about their favorite musical instruments.

Consul Global Scale Benchmark: https://www.hashicorp.com/cgsb
Consul Global Scale Benchmark GitHub: https://github.com/hashicorp/consul-global-scale-benchmark

Episode 30 - Anubhav Mishra, HashiCorp & Paul Banks, HashiCorp

In this first episode of Keepin' It Secure, your hosts Rob Barnes (Devops Rob) and Adeel Ahmad (DevOps Adeel) discuss data sovereignty, identity attestation and Role Based Access Controls (RBAC).

HCP Vault: cloud.hashicorp.com/
HashiCorp Sentinel: www.hashicorp.com/sentinel
HashiCorpLive Instagram: www.instagram.com/hashicorplive/

Keepin' It Secure - Episode 1

In this second episode of Keepin' It Secure, our hosts Rob Barnes (Devops Rob) and Adeel Ahmad (DevOps Adeel) discuss the recently released findings from the State of Cloud Strategy survey conducted by HashiCorp.

State of Cloud Strategy Survey: https://www.hashicorp.com/state-of-the-cloud
HCP Vault: cloud.hashicorp.com/
HashiCorp Sentinel: www.hashicorp.com/sentinel
HashiCorpLive Instagram: www.instagram.com/hashicorplive/

Keepin' It Secure - Episode 2

In this third installment of Keepin' It Secure, our hosts Rob Barnes (Devops Rob) and Adeel Ahmad (DevOps Adeel) discuss some of the feedback received from the community about the topics discussed in previous episodes.

HCP Vault: cloud.hashicorp.com/
HashiCorp Sentinel: www.hashicorp.com/sentinel
HashiCorpLive Instagram: www.instagram.com/hashicorplive/

Keepin' It Secure - Episode 3

In this forth installment of Keepin' It Secure, our hosts Rob Barnes (Devops Rob) and Adeel Ahmad (DevOps Adeel) welcome the show's first guest Jamie Barrett. We discuss the view point of the Risk and Compliance discipline on security and controls.

HCP Vault: cloud.hashicorp.com/
HashiCorp Sentinel: www.hashicorp.com/sentinel
HashiCorpLive Instagram: www.instagram.com/hashicorplive/

Keepin' It Secure - Episode 4

In this fifth installment of Keepin' It Secure, our hosts Rob Barnes (Devops Rob) and Adeel Ahmad (DevOps Adeel) are joined by Controlplane CEO Andy Martin where they discuss the challenges of machine identity and potential solutions.

Hacking Kubernetes e-book: https://control-plane.io/hackingkubernetes
HCP Vault: cloud.hashicorp.com/
HashiCorp Sentinel: www.hashicorp.com/sentinel
HashiCorpLive Instagram: www.instagram.com/hashicorplive/

Keepin' It Secure - Episode 5

In the first episode of Keepin' It Secure in 2022, your hosts Rob Barnes (Devops Rob) and Adeel Ahmad (DevOps Adeel) discuss people, process and technology with co-authors of Running Hashicorp Vault In Production book, Bryan Krausen and Dan McTeer.

Running Hashicorp Vault In Production: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Running-HashiCorp-Vault-Production-McTeer-ebook/dp/B08JJLGMZ3
Keepin' It Secure Twitter: https://twitter.com/keepinitsecure
Bryan Krausen: https://twitter.com/btkrausen
Dan McTeer: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dmcteer
HashiCorpLive Instagram: www.instagram.com/hashicorplive/

Keepin' It Secure - Episode 7

This episode features Betajob's Anton Babenko, a long time contributor and community member of the HashiCorp Terraform ecosystem.

Join us as we walkthrough Anton's history with infrastructure as code, HashiCorp Terraform, and the larger DevOps community.

Podcast Notes
Anton's Terraform Links: https://github.com/antonbabenko/terraform-aws-devops

Episode 37 - Anton Babenko, Betajob

In this 9th installment of Keepin' It Secure, our hosts Rob Barnes (Devops Rob) and Adeel Ahmad (DevOps Adeel) welcome Datree founder and CEO, Shimon Tolts to the show to discuss the role of education and developer experience in security.

HCP Vault: cloud.hashicorp.com/
HashiCorpLive Instagram: www.instagram.com/hashicorplive/
Datree: www.datree.io

Keepin' It Secure - Episode 9 (Shimon - Datree)

In this landmark 10th installment of Keepin' It Secure, our hosts Rob Barnes (Devops Rob) and Adeel Ahmad (DevOps Adeel) welcome Microsoft's very own Etan Basseri & Sarah Handler to break down Workload and user identity.

Keepin' It Secure - Episode 10 (Etan & Sarah - Microsoft)

In this latest instalment of Keepin' It Secure, our hosts Rob Barnes (Devops Rob) and Adeel Ahmad (DevOps Adeel) discuss the recent hack and data breach suffered by Uber as well as other recent documented hacks to learn lessons from these unfortunate incidents.

Keepin' It Secure - Episode 11 - (Uber Hack)

Episode 12 of Keepin' It Secure, welcomes our hosts Rob Barnes (Devops Rob) and Adeel Ahmad (DevOps Adeel) alongside our special guest Sarah Polan as they review the State Of Cloud Security Report for 2022.

The state of cloud security in Europe 2022 report: https://www.datocms-assets.com/2885/1666169206-techconsult-survey-state-of-cloud-security-in-emea-english.pdf

Keepin' It Secure - Episode 12 (State of the cloud EMEA review with Sarah Polan)

The 13th Installment of Keepin' It Secure features our hosts Rob Barnes (DevOps Rob) and Adeel Ahmad (DevOps Adeel) as they discuss the recent cyber incident that occurred with Royal Mail and the security implications of digital transformation.

Keepin' It Secure - Episode 13 - Digital Transformation

The 14th Installment of Keepin' It Secure features our hosts Rob Barnes (DevOps Rob) and Adeel Ahmad (DevOps Adeel) in person together in the studio for the first time as they discuss NSA's Recommended Best Practices for Identity and Access Management Administrators.

Keepin' It Secure - Episode 14 - NSA's Reccomended Best Practices for IAM Administrators

This episode features Red Hat’s Lester Claudio and Jonny Rickard who maintain Validated Patterns for GitOps, hybrid cloud, industrial edge computing, and more.

Join us as we discuss some of the challenges to maintaining patterns, GitOps architecture on Kubernetes, and what kind of hats we would be.

PODCAST NOTES
Validated Patterns Documentation: hybrid-cloud-patterns.io
Validated Patterns Github: github.com/hybrid-cloud-patterns
Validated Patterns Status: hybrid-cloud-patterns.io/ci/
ArgoCD: argoproj.github.io/cd/
Vault Secrets Operator: hashicorp.com/blog/vault-secrets-operator-a-new-method-for-kubernetes-integration
OpenShift Commons Slack: openshiftcommons.slack.com/

Episode 38 - Jonny Rickard & Lester Claudio, Red Hat

This episode features Adrienne Braganza Tacke, author of “Looks Good To Me: Constructive Code Reviews” and developer advocate at Cisco.

Join us as we discuss ways you can improve your code reviews, align on team objectives for review, what parts of review you should automate, and which pastries reflect our personalities.

PODCAST NOTES
Looks Good To Me: Constructive Code Reviews: http://mng.bz/4Dzw. Use the code “podHashi35” for 35% off. Valid for 1 year.
CODEOWNERS File: https://docs.github.com/en/repositories/managing-your-repositorys-settings-and-features/customizing-your-repository/about-code-owners

Episode 39 - Adrienne Braganza Tacke, Cisco

This episode features Saravanan Gnanaguru, HashiCorp ambassador and founder of CloudEngine Labs.

Join us as we discuss how he learned about DevOps, the challenges companies face as they deploy applications to the cloud, and places and food to try in his region.

PODCAST NOTES
Contact Saravanan: https://www.gsaravanan.dev/
CloudEngine Labs: https://www.cloudenginelabs.io/
HashiCorp Ambassador Profiles: https://www.hashicorp.com/ambassadors

Episode 40 - Saravanan Gnanaguru, CloudEngine Labs

This episode features Camilla Martins, HashiCorp ambassador and senior SRE at Storyblok.

Join us as we discuss how to build continuously learning communities, how imposter syndrome leads to perceived technical challenges, whether or not DevSecOps should be its own term, and what to do in Brazil.

PODCAST NOTES
Learn about Camilla: https://punkdodevops.com/
HashiCorp User Group in Rio De Janeiro: https://www.meetup.com/pt-BR/rio-de-janeiro-hashicorp-user-group/

Episode 41 - Camilla Martins, Storyblok

Rosemary Wang and Michael Kosir (developer advocates at HashiCorp, an IBM Company) discuss what's new in Vault 1.19 and Terraform 1.11, including automatic rotation of root credentials, post-quantum cryptography, Terraform test enhancements, and write-only arguments for ephemeral values.

Podcast Notes
- https://www.hashicorp.com/en/blog/vault-enterprise-1-19-reduces-risk-encryption-updates-automated-root-rotation
- https://www.hashicorp.com/en/blog/terraform-1-11-ephemeral-values-managed-resources-write-only-arguments
- https://developer.hashicorp.com/terraform/language/resources/ephemeral

CHANGELOG - Vault 1.19 & Terraform 1.11

Rosemary Wang and Michael Kosir (developer advocates at HashiCorp, an IBM Company) discuss new releases like Vault and Nomad on IBM Z and LinuxONE, Nomad 1.10, and HCP Vault Radar as well as updated features to HCP Boundary and the Terraform Enterprise provider.

Podcast Notes
- https://www.ibm.com/new/announcements/ibm-vault-self-managed-for-z-and-linuxone-and-ibm-nomad-self-managed-for-z-and-linuxone-generally-available
- https://www.hashicorp.com/en/blog/nomad-1-10-adds-dynamic-host-volumes-extended-oidc-support-and-more
- https://www.hashicorp.com/en/products/vault/hcp-vault-radar
- https://developer.hashicorp.com/hcp/docs/boundary/configure-ttl
- https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform-provider-tfe/releases/tag/v0.65.0

CHANGELOG - Nomad 1.10 & HCP Vault Radar

Rosemary Wang and Michael Kosir (developer advocates at HashiCorp, an IBM Company) discuss what's new in Terraform, Consul, and Boundary including a recently released Terraform MCP Server, transparent sessions in Boundary, and a simplified deployment architecture for Consul’s External Service Monitor.

Podcast Notes:
- https://developer.hashicorp.com/terraform/docs/tools/mcp-server
- https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform/releases/tag/v1.12.0
- https://developer.hashicorp.com/terraform/enterprise/releases/2025/v202504-1
- https://hashicorp.com/en/blog/consul-1-21-service-discovery-consul-kubernetes-openshift-4-17 
- https://hashicorp.com/en/blog/transparent-sessions-now-ga-in-hashicorp-boundary
- https://youtube.com/watch?v=eeOANluSqAE

CHANGELOG - Terraform MCP Server & Consul 1.21

Michael Kosir (developer advocate) and Meredith Duflock (product manager) discuss what's new in Vault 1.20, Terraform AWS Provider v6, Terraform Vault Provider v5, and HCP Waypoint including enhanced region support, ephemeral resources, rate limit quotes, and the general availability of HCP Waypoint Actions.

Podcast Notes:
- https://www.hashicorp.com/en/blog/hcp-waypoint-actions-now-ga
- https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform-provider-vault/releases/tag/v5.0.0
- https://www.hashicorp.com/en/blog/terraform-aws-provider-6-0-now-generally-available
- https://www.hashicorp.com/en/blog/vault-enterprise-1-20-scep-usage-reporting-cloud-secret-imports


CHANGELOG - HCP Waypoint Actions & Vault 1.20

Michael Kosir (Developer Advocate) and Gautam Baghel (Partner Solutions Engineer) recap HashiDays: London and HashiDays: Singapore, discuss new features in HCP Terraform, HCP Vault Radar, and the release of MCP Servers for Vault and Vault Radar.

Podcast Notes:
- https://www.hashicorp.com/en/conferences/hashidays
- https://www.hashicorp.com/en/blog/build-secure-ai-driven-workflows-with-new-terraform-and-vault-mcp-servers
- https://developer.hashicorp.com/hcp/docs/vault/private-dns
- https://developer.hashicorp.com/terraform/cloud-docs/agents/agent-pools#scope-an-agent-pool-to-specific-projects
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eeOANluSqAE


CHANGELOG - HCP Terraform, Vault MCP Server, & Vault Radar MCP Server

Michael Kosir (Developer Advocate at HashiCorp) covers what's new in Terraform, Packer, and the upcoming conference season. Terraform Stacks in the command line, a Packer plugin registry migration, and a major version for the Terraform Google provider.

Podcast Notes:
- https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/important-update-official-packer-plugin-distribution-moving-to-releases-hashicorp-com/75972
- https://github.com/hashicorp/packer/releases/tag/v1.14.0
- https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform/releases/tag/v1.13.0
- https://www.hashicorp.com/en/blog/terraform-stacks-explained
- https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform-provider-google/releases/tag/v7.0.0
- https://registry.terraform.io/providers/hashicorp/google/latest/docs/guides/version_7_upgrade

CHANGELOG - Terraform 1.13 & Packer 1.14

HashiCast Episode 0 - HashiCorp Research

This episode of HashiCast highlights Robbie Mckinstry, and Jon Currey from HashiCorp Research team. Couple of years ago HashiCorp announced HashiCorp Research that aimed on helping to solve the frontier of problems for customers and users. This podcast will cover things like:

* What HashiCorp Research is? 
* What is the workflow for a research driven project at HashiCorp? 
* What are some good approaches that are critical research? 

So, sit back, relax, and enjoy the postcast.

Guests: 
Robbie Mckinstry, Jon Currey - HashiCorp Research

Hosts:
Anubhav Mishra, Nic Jackson - Developer Advocates, HashiCorp

Intro Music:
El Mariachi by The Greek Fandango Orchestra (Creative Commons)
https://freakfandango.bandcamp.com

Episode 0 - HashiCorp Research

This episode of HashiCast highlights Liz Rice from Aqua Security.

Liz Rice works for Aqua Security who build a platform which provides development-to-production lifecycle controls for securing containerized applications.  In addition to her work with Aqua, Liz is very active in the world of technology and has given some fascinating talks at GopherCon, DockerCon and many other conferences around the globe.  She is also the maintainer of Kube-bench and Manifesto.

We chat all things application security, the state of the industry, problems application developers face and some things you can do to help build a more secure workflow.

Guests: 
Liz Rice - Aqua Security

Hosts:
Anubhav Mishra, Nic Jackson - Developer Advocates, HashiCorp

Intro Music:
El Mariachi by The Greek Fandango Orchestra (Creative Commons)
freakfandango.bandcamp.com

Links:
Aqua Security: https://www.aquasec.com
Kube Bench: https://github.com/aquasecurity/kube-bench
Manifesto: https://github.com/aquasecurity/manifesto

Talks:
Velocity London - Keynote on Cloud Native Security
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eB8kzdWWcfA&feature=youtu.be

DockerCon - What have namespaces done for you lately?
https://youtu.be/MHv6cWjvQjM

HashiConf - Your Secret's Safe with Me - Securing Container Secrets with Vault
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3QJRdiTr1I&list=PL81sUbsFNc5Y-jbEC1y5BWenDoYscVv4t&index=30

Episode 1 - Liz Rice, Aqua Security

This episode of HashiCast highlights Armon Dadgar from HashiCorp.

Armon Dadgar is one of the two founders and the co-CTO of HashiCorp. Armon has an immense passion for Open Source and distributed systems to solve real world problems. He has worked on Nomad, Vault, Terraform, Consul, and Serf at HashiCorp, and maintains the Statsite and Bloomd OSS projects as well.

We chat about how Armon got started with technology. We explored his early days in high school and university. We talked about how HashiCorp came into existence and the most challenging problems for HashiCorp as a company in the next few years. 

Guests: 
Armon Dadgar - HashiCorp

Hosts:
Anubhav Mishra, Nic Jackson - Developer Advocates, HashiCorp

Intro Music:
El Mariachi by The Greek Fandango Orchestra (Creative Commons)
freakfandango.bandcamp.com

Links:
HashiCorp: https://hashicorp.com

Episode 2 - Armon Dadgar, HashiCorp

This episode of HashiCast features Ben Sigelman from LightStep.

Ben Sigelman is the CEO and Cofounder LightStep. LightStep is rethinking observability in the emerging world of microservices. He spent nine years at Google where he led the design and development of several global-scale monitoring systems. The most significant of these were Dapper, an always-on distributed tracing system, and Monarch, a high-availability time series collection, storage, and query system. 

Join us as we chat about monitoring approaches in the world of distributed systems, OpenTracing, and the growing world of observability with awesome projects like Zipkin.

Recorded on April 6, 2018. 

Links
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Dapper Paper: https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.com/en//archive/papers/dapper-2010-1.pdf

Vizceral by Netflix: https://medium.com/netflix-techblog/vizceral-open-source-acc0c32113fe

Flux by Netflix: https://medium.com/netflix-techblog/flux-a-new-approach-to-system-intuition-cf428b7316ec

OpenTracing call: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAa4TcX4eLBenz9A1SjzL-Q/ 

Blog post "The difference between tracing, tracing, and tracing": https://medium.com/opentracing/the-difference-between-tracing-tracing-and-tracing-84b49b2d54ea 

Ben’s Monitorama talk: https://vimeo.com/221051832 

Ben's Twitter handle: https://twitter.com/el_bhs

LightStep: https://lightstep.com/

Episode 4 - Ben Sigelman, LightStep

In this episode of HashiCast we talk to Paul Dix from InfluxDB.

Paul Dix is cofounder and CTO of InfluxData, the company behind InfluxDB, the open source time series database. He has helped build software for startups, large companies and organizations like Microsoft, Google, McAfee, Thomson Reuters, and Air Force Space Command. He is the series editor for Addison Wesley's Data & Analytics book and video series. In 2010 Paul wrote the book Service Oriented Design with Ruby and Rails for Addison Wesley's Professional Ruby series. In 2009 he started the NYC Machine Learning Meetup, which has over 9,000 members. Paul holds a degree in computer science from Columbia University.

Join us as we talk all things timeseries, metrics and monitoring.

Links:
https://www.influxdata.com

Episode 5 - Paul Dix, InfluxDB

Join us as we talk distributed tracing and the OpenTelemetry project with the wonderful Constance Caramanolis from OpenTelemetry and Splunk.

Episode 18 - OpenTelemetry with Constance Caramanolis

In this episode, Nicole Hubbard introduces Jacquie Grindrod and Jono Sosulska, two new members of the HashiCorp Developer Advocacy team. Rosemary Wang provides an update with Dave Stauffacher of the Milwaukee HashiCorp User Group. 

Join us as we make introductions, talk about DevOps, HashiCorp tools, and animated characters.

Episode 20 - Jacquie Grindrod And Jono Sosulska, HashiCorp

In this episode, Jacquie Grindrod introduces Kerim Satirli and Rob Barnes, two new members of the HashiCorp Developer Advocacy team. 

Join us as we make introductions, discuss transitioning into Developer Advocacy, favourite tips & tricks, and video game genres.

Episode 22 - Kerim Satirli & Rob Barnes, HashiCorp

This episode features Netflix's Sarai Rosenberg, Senior Insecurity Princess, and Darshana Sivakumar, a Product Manager for HashiCorp Vault.

Join us as we chat with Sarai and Darshana about security engineering and Vault! Find out what it takes to operate Vault, how we started in open source for security, whether certifications matter, why Sarai's cat is named Binah, and what plants we own.

Episode 23 - Sarai Rosenberg, Netflix & Darshana Sivakumar, HashiCorp

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