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

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
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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 this 8th installment of Keepin' It Secure, our hosts Rob Barnes (Devops Rob) and Adeel Ahmad (DevOps Adeel) welcome Monzo Bank Security Engineer Awn Umar to discuss different view on defence in depth.

HCP Vault: cloud.hashicorp.com/
HashiCorpLive Instagram: www.instagram.com/hashicorplive/
Memguard: https://github.com/awnumar/memguard
Digital signatures and secret storage systems blog: https://monzo.com/blog/2022/02/15/securely-delegating-trust-with-digital-signatures-and-secret-storage-systems

Keepin' It Secure - Episode 8

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

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