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 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

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