Mark is an experienced technologist whose journey began in application development, spanning web and client-server applications to sophisticated distributed systems and microservices. Along this path, he developed deep expertise in automation and DevOps, leading diverse project teams and guiding organizations through strategic, operational, and pre-sales leadership roles. Currently, Mark holds a hands-on engineering position at Microsoft, contributing directly to the Microsoft Azure platform.

Beyond his professional work, Mark shares his passion for cloud computing through his YouTube channel, "The Azure Terraformer." He is also the author of "Mastering Terraform," a practical, multi-cloud guide to Cloud Architecture and Infrastructure-as-Code covering AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud, and has created the Udemy course "Terraform 101.”

Nana Janashia is a self-taught DevOps Engineer, instructor, and tech entrepreneur. As the Co-Founder of TechWorld with Nana, she has taught in-demand DevOps skills to millions worldwide through her YouTube channel and online courses. In just four years, her channel has grown to over 1,2 million subscribers, establishing her as a trusted source for high-quality DevOps education. Nana also collaborates with leading tech companies and startups globally, sharing her expertise in Cloud and DevOps technologies.

About the Guest

Thomas is currently the CEO of a stealth startup developing the next generation infrastructure management platform. He is the creator of the Salt open source software project and founded the company SaltStack which he sold to VMware in 2020. He has spent his career writing software to orchestrate and automate the work of securing and maintaining enterprise IT infrastructure from core data center systems to the very edge of the network and IoT.

Thomas built fully automated, secure IT environments for the U.S. intelligence community in addition to decades of experience implementing global infrastructures for the largest businesses in the world. He has shared his knowledge of IT security and management automation with tens of thousands of practitioners at more than 100 industry events. Thomas and SaltStack have been recognized with numerous awards ranging from open source community growth to innovation in automation and cybersecurity.

For his work on Salt, in 2012 Tom received the Black Duck “Rookie of the Year” award and was named to the GitHub Octoverse list in both 2012 and 2013 for leading a project with the highest number of unique contributors, rubbing shoulders with projects from Android, Mozilla, and OpenStack. More recently, SaltStack SecOps was chosen by CSO Magazine as one of the hottest new products at RSA Conference 2019.

Adrian is a lifelong learner turned developer advocate. A network engineer at heart who loves technology, he is very excited about automation and network programmability. In his current role, he covers everything developer related for enterprise networking and multi-domain technologies at Cisco. He enjoys helping, mentoring, and meeting new people.

Sundar Subramanian is the Executive Vice President and General Manager of Infrastructure Management at Progress. In his role, he leads by setting a vision, elevating his team to address complex customer challenges across DevOps, DevSecOps, application performance monitoring, full stack observability and network and security operations. Over his career, he has built, scaled and sold SaaS products, including leading AthenaHealth’s platform teams and serving as VP of Products at Citrus Payment Solutions, acquired by Naspers. Sundar also served as VP for Kaseya, where he built multiple cross-functional teams charged with driving the company’s revenue growth, and he was the Director of Product Management at Salesforce, after co-founding a startup company Salesforce acquired.

Sundar holds a Master’s in Computer Science from Drexel University and a Bachelor’s in Electronics Engineering from the University of Mumbai.

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Thank you to our amazing guests for this KubeCon edition:

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Solomon Hykes - Co-Founder of Dagger and Docker

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Andrew Martin - Co-Founder & CEO at ControlPlane

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Rotem Tamir - Co-Founder & CTO at Ariga

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Marc Boorshtein - CTO at Tremolo Security

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Eldad Assis - Principal DevOps Architect at JFrog

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Miguel Luna - Principal Product Manager at Elastic

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Derek Morgan - DevOps Course Creator at More Than Certified

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Daniel Bryant - Head of Product Marketing at Syntasso

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Taylor Dolezal is the Head of Ecosystem at the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), where he fosters collaboration and innovation across the cloud-native community. Formerly a Developer Advocate at HashiCorp, supporting tools like Terraform, he also brings experience as a Lead SRE Engineer at Walt Disney Studios.

Thank you to our amazing guests for this DevOpsDays edition:

Roi Ravhon - Co-founder & CEO at FinOut

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Shiran Melamed - DevOps Group Lead at JFrog

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Baruch Sagodursky - Developer Relations & DPE Advocacy at Gradle

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Yishai Beeri - CTO at LinearB

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Shem Magnezi - Co-Founder & CTO at Wilco

‍ Avishai Ish-Shalom

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Join Matty Stratton as he shares his experiences with these foundational tools and how they paved the way for modern IaC practices. We explore the power of open-source solutions and how they've transformed DevOps workflows.

Matty Stratton is the Director of Developer Relations at Aiven, a well-known member of the DevOps community, founder and co-host of the popular Arrested DevOps podcast, and a global organizer of the DevOpsDays set of conferences.

Matty has over 20 years of experience in IT operations and is a sought-after speaker internationally, presenting at Agile, DevOps, and cloud engineering focused events worldwide.

Patrick Debois is a versatile technologist with a breadth of experience across Dev, Sec, and Ops. Known for his aptitude in harnessing emerging ideas , he skillfully guides teams and advises businesses ranging from startups to enterprises in their journey. Recognized as a trusted ally among dev, sec, ops communities, and beyond, he is currently immersing himself in the world of AI & Machine Learning continuously pushing the boundaries of his technical expertise.

Explore the pivotal moments that led to Terraform's inception, the challenges of fostering an open-source community, and how HashiCorp evolved from a passion project into an industry powerhouse.

Don’t miss this captivating conversation that delves into the story behind one of the most influential software tools, offering a rare insight into the mind of a true innovator.

Mitchell is a developer living in Los Angeles, CA. He co-founded HashiCorp, and was part of the initial engineering team behind most of HashiCorp's products, such as Vagrant, Packer, Consul, Terraform, Vault, Nomad, Waypoint, and more. Mitchell was CEO for 4 years, CTO for 5 years, an individual contributor for 2 years. He is passionate about flying airplanes - he's an FAA-licensed pilot and currently flies a Cirrus SF50 Vision Jet.

Jared Watts is a Founding Engineer at Upbound, where he is working on advancing cloud-native computing by enabling anyone to build their own cloud native control plane. He is also a co-creator for the open source Crossplane and Rook projects. Prior to Upbound, Jared worked on P2P storage distributed across the public internet at Symform, a startup later acquired by Quantum. Jared began his career at Microsoft working on applications for Windows Server setup and management.

Jérôme was part of the team that built and launched Docker. He worked there for 7 years. These days he teaches Kubernetes at Enix, a French Cloud Native shop. When he's not busy with computers, he collects musical instruments. He can arguably play the theme of Zelda on a dozen of them.

Zach Goldberg is an executive coach, the author of 10k+ GitHub star book, “The Startup CTO’s Handbook” and is the CTO of Gruntwork. Zach Goldberg graduated from the University of Pennsylvania Magna Cum Laude with a degree in Computer Science and Engineering. He’s been the CTO of seven startups including WiFast, Sticks and Brains, AutoLotto, Trellis Technologies, GrowFlow (acq. Dama Financial 2022), Towards Equilibrium Inc. and most recently Gruntwork as well as an Entrepreneur in Residence at Tencent and an Associate Product Manager at Google.

Liz Rice is Chief Open Source Officer with eBPF specialists Isovalent, creators of the Cilium cloud native networking, security and observability project. She is the author of Container Security, and Learning eBPF, both published by O'Reilly, and she sits on the CNCF Governing Board, and on the Board of OpenUK. She was Chair of the CNCF's Technical Oversight Committee in 2019-2022, and Co-Chair of KubeCon + CloudNativeCon in 2018.

She has a wealth of software development, team, and product management experience from working on network protocols and distributed systems, and in digital technology sectors such as VOD, music, and VoIP. When not writing code, or talking about it, Liz loves riding bikes in places with better weather than her native London, competing in virtual races on Zwift, and making music under the pseudonym Insider Nine.

Matt Gowie is a seasoned entrepreneur, cloud architect, and platform engineer based in Boulder, Colorado. As CEO and CTO of Masterpoint, he leads a team dedicated to developing top-tier infrastructure-as-code solutions for a diverse clientele. With over twelve years of experience in software development, tech startups, and cloud infrastructure, Matt has a deep passion for Terraform and OpenTofu. He actively contributes to the community as a core maintainer of one of the largest open-source Terraform Module libraries and an AWS Community Builder. Outside of work, you can find him rock climbing across the American West, training for an ultramarathon, or exploring remote corners of the globe.

Tune in to this must-listen episode as we explore the evolution and future of DevOps with a pioneer in the field.

John Willis has worked in the IT management industry for more than 35 years and is a prolific author, including "Deming's Journey to Profound Knowledge" and "The DevOps Handbook." He is researching DevOps, DevSecOps, IT risk, modern governance, and audit compliance. Previously he was an Evangelist at Docker Inc., VP of Solutions for Socketplane (sold to Docker) and Enstratius (sold to Dell), and VP of Training & Services at Opscode where he formalized the training, evangelism, and professional services functions at the firm. Willis also founded Gulf Breeze Software, an award winning IBM business partner, which specializes in deploying Tivoli technology for the enterprise. Willis has authored six IBM Redbooks for IBM on enterprise systems management and was the founder and chief architect at Chain Bridge Systems.

Listen now and explore Daniel's detailed insights on 'Hacking Terraform State for Privilege Escalation' here.

Daniel Grzelak is a 20-year cybersecurity industry veteran, investor, advisor, and speaker. He is no longer the CISO at Linktree nor the Head of Security at Atlassian, but he tries to stay relevant by hacking AWS and Cloud in general.

You can watch full recordings of the talks mentioned on the CNCF YouTube page.

Thank you to our amazing guests for this KubeCon edition:

Abdel Sghiouar - Senior Cloud Developer Advocate, Google

Joep Piscaer - DevRel Leader, TLA Tech

Melissa McKay - Developer Advocate, JFrog

Joel Studler - DevOps Engineer, Swisscom

Ashan Senevirathne - Product Owner, Swisscom

Daniel "phrawzty" Maher - Head of Developer Relations, Scaleway

Barun Acharya - Software Engineer, Accuknox + CNCF Ambassador

Saloni Narang - DevRel Freelancer

Saiyam Pathak - Field CTO, Civo

Stuart Miniman - Senior Director of Market Insights, Hybrid Platforms, Red Hat

Tune in for a must-listen episode on where organizations currently stand in codifying cloud resources, and key insights into the future of managing Infrastructure-as-Code.

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Eran Bibi is Co-Founder & Chief Product Officer at Firefly. With years of experience in anything DevOps/SRE and security, he has earned a reputation as a CI/CD and SRE expert and an avid admin of Cloud Platforms and containerized environments.

Prior to Firefly, Eran was Head of DevOps & Cloud Platform at Aqua Security and DevOps Group Lead at Finastra. Eran is a frequent speaker at Cloud Native meetups, AWS community meetups, and other cloud workshops and conferences.

Sponsored by: https://www.env0.com/

Can high-cardinality data exploration reveal the "unknown unknowns" hiding in your telemetry? Is prioritizing user experiences over infrastructure stats the key to untangling your "hairball" systems? And what role should observability play across the full software development lifecycle? Charity offers a forward-looking perspective on evolving observability practices to match increasing complexity. Observe the future of observability - Tune in to our latest episode now!

‍Charity Majors is a Co-Founder and Engineer at Honeycomb.io, a startup that blends the speed of time series with the raw power of rich events to give you interactive, iterative debugging of complex systems. She has worked at companies like Facebook, Parse, and Linden Lab, as a systems engineer and engineering manager, but always seems to end up responsible for the databases too. She loves free speech, free software and a nice peaty single malt.

Sponsored by: https://www.env0.com/

We explore OpenTofu as a reaction to Terraform, ponder whether an “Ansible of IaC” will emerge, and delve into the deeper meaning of licenses, ecosystems, and governance models—emphasizing that “one open source is not equal to another.”

Join us in the exploration of the hallmarks of healthy open source and what lies beyond licenses as we assess community integrity.

‍Kris Buytaert is a long time Linux and Open Source Consultant. He's one of instigators of the devops movement, currently working for o11y.eu / @inuits.

He is frequently speaking at, or organizing different international conferences and has written about the same subjects in different Books, Papers and Articles.

He spends most of his time working on bridging the gap between developers and operations with a strong focus on High Availability, Scalability, Virtualization, and Large Infrastructure Management projects. Hence, he is trying to build infrastructures that can survive the 10th-floor test—better known today as the cloud—while actively promoting the DevOps idea.

Sponsored by: https://www.env0.com/

Mandi shares insights on key shifts like increased automation to reduce incidents, centralizing infrastructure code management, and using Terraform providers to configure SaaS products. Tune in for a thoughtful perspective on how infrastructure teams have matured their processes and adapted tools to the modern stack!

Mandi Walls is a DevOps Advocate at PagerDuty. For PagerDuty, she helps organizations along their IT Modernization journey. Prior to PagerDuty, she worked at Chef Software and AOL. She is an international speaker on DevOps topics and the author of the whitepaper “Building A DevOps Culture”, published by O’Reilly.

The ensuing discussion unfolded as an interesting and engaging exchange, with topics spanning from evaluating open-source tools to considerations for licensing in engineering activities, and the potential macro implications of Terrafrom’s licensing shift.

It was a great listen! In case you missed it, check out the recording.

PS, The Q&A session was particularly interesting. If you only have a moment, jump straight to [55:50] and enjoy!

Today, he joins us to offer pragmatic perspectives on infrastructure as code maturity, drawn from his own journey towards increased confidence and reliability over time. Tune in as we plumb the depths of real-world IaC adoption, exploring everything from infrastructure testing practices to state management considerations at scale. This is an episode you won't want to miss!

Robert Hafner is a Senior Principal Architect and author of Terraform in Depth. He has been working at the intersection of software and infrastructure since starting his first company in 2005. During that time he witnessed first hand the industry evolution from individual bash scripts to configuration management up to infrastructure as code. He's spent his career working with startups such as Malwarebytes and Rad AI on projects ranging from high availability sites, large data analytics (with 30+ million daily clients), to large scale GPU clustering and machine learning model hosting.

Adam Jacob is an engineering and product innovator, with decades of experience designing, building, and managing large production systems. Adam is the Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of System Initiative.

Adam previously co-founded Chef Software, was the original author of Chef, served as CTO, and on the board of directors. Chef grew out of HJK Solutions, an automated infrastructure consultancy responsible for helping build some of the earliest large-scale production cloud infrastructures. A systems administrator at heart, Adam has also been responsible for internal corporate automation, Sarbanes-Oxley compliance efforts, and a whole lot of systems automation.

After working for years in traditional infrastructure management, consulting, and Devrel, Derek Morgan is now the founder and lead instructor for morethancertified.com, creating training courses that cover topics from containers to the cloud. If he's not creating training, you can find him training for a marathon, riding a bike, or on a climbing wall.

Ilia is a Lead Engineer with more than 10 years of experience and with a passion for Open source software. He is experienced in leading projects to achieve concrete goals on a strict deadline. He has extensive knowledge in AWS, GCP, Kubernetes, Containers and DevOps practices. He is also an active contributor to open source projects including being a Hashicorp core contributor to the Terraform AWS provider and terraform VPC modules.

Anders has a long background in the identity space, which eventually led him to access control and authorization. Today he leads developer relations at Styra, the founders and maintainers of the Open Policy Agent (OPA) project. He is also the maintainer of two kids.

PePe Amengual is a 10x unicorn who fights crimes against Terraform by day and slays manual processes by night. He loves open source, devops and helping teams be awesome by empowering them with great tech.Dylan Page is a Principal Infrastructure Engineer for Autodesk, based in Detroit, Michigan. He works primarily on Autodesk's Construction Cloud product. Having joined Autodesk in early 2020, He has spent the last 3 years streamlining and improving an internal developer platform for the Autodesk Construction Cloud product specializing in Kubernetes and Terraform. Prior to Autodesk, He spent 5 years at DigitalOcean helping build and grow the developer cloud. He has spent a lot of time understanding developer needs and how to provide them with the best tools to deploy their applications and services with ease and reliability.

Elad Ben-Israel is the creator of the AWS CDK, CDK8s, JSII and Projen. After an amazing journey, Elad has recently left the comforts of AWS to start a new company called Monada. Monada’s mission is to democratize the cloud by reimagining cloud development from the ground up (pun intended of course).

Elad lives in Tel-Aviv with his husband and 4-year-old twins, and in his spare time attends Burning Man and sweats at the local CrossFit gym. Elad has given several talks in the previous days of CDK in front of large audiences at multiple conferences around the world.

Andrew Brown is known for his multiple free cloud certification courses and cloud bootcamps across AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes, Terraform and more, teaching hundreds of thousands of students globally. Andrew Brown specializes in EdTech with 15 years of experience building learning platforms.

During the episode, we dive in to providing security for cloud native and containers, and how tools like Trivy can help teams quickly find and correct vulnerabilities before moving to production. We also discuss how tools like TFSEC, which checks for the configuration of cloud resources that Terraform and the cloud formations are generating, can further close security gaps for teams. Listeners will also learn how to integrate the two tools to implement security best practices for their organizations. Tune-in now!

We discuss with Elliot the rise of self-service infrastructure, Terraform Cloud and Terraform Cloud alternatives as well as their challenges and benefits, and how these tools can encourage IaC collaboration and cross-functionality across developer teams. Listeners will also learn how to balance accessibility to IaC in their organizations with standard security measures. Tune in today!