I’ve had an absolutely amazing week! I was named a Cloud Native Computing Foundation Ambassador. My friend, Chris Bailey, and I recorded an episode of Techtown’s Discussing DevOps Details (3D) Podcast. I spoke at the Orchestructure January 2018 Meetup about Golang accelerating DevOps. Last, but certainly not least, I was named an opensource.com 2018 People’s Choice Award winner. I also booked travel for Open Source 101 in Raleigh and DevOpsDays Charlotte. I don’t know how I can top this week. But, I tend to compete with myself; I’m sure I’ll come up with something. Scale Continuous Delivery for Your Enterprise? GoCD is a Continuous Delivery tool allowing you to model, orchestrate, and visualize complex workflows. Our enterprise offering provides plugins and professional support to help your scale CD in your organization. Check out GOCD’s enterprise features and performance upgrades now! SPONSORED People WHATIS Going to Happen With WHOIS? Why is this a people issue? Because to display an EU citizen’s name in WHOIS data would be illegal under the GDPR. ICANN is trying to figure out how to meet their transparency goals while still complying with the GDPR. ...

There are terrible people in this world. I’ve known that for a very, very long time. There are those that twist religion to benefit themselves, double-crossers, and people who will have their co-workers swatted just for existing. But, you cannot add yourself to that list in the process of “being American.” You are the epitome of a loser if you target people because of their race, gender identity, political leanings, sexual orientation, or disability. If you work at Google, you clearly have done something right in life. I’m pretty sure Google doesn’t let just anyone in the door. It is high time we leave our beliefs and prejudices outside of the work place. We’re all in this thing called life on this place called earth together; it’s time to start acting like it. In other news, please vote for me in the opensource.com 2018 People’s Choice Awards. It would mean a lot to me to win this. GoCD — Open Source Continuous Delivery Server GoCD is a continuous delivery tool supporting modern infrastructure with elastic on-demand agents and cloud deployments. With GoCD, you can easily model, orchestrate and visualize complex workflows from end to end. It’s open source, free to use and download. SPONSORED ...

I attended and spoke at DevOpsDays NYC 2018 this week. The conference was very well organized. It was a truly unique experience held at the Microsoft Technology Center in Times Square. There were some absolutely amazing talks. The talks were all great. The one thing I enjoyed the most was meeting people and seeing where they were along their journey. There are a lot of folks, some in really big companies, trying to change their cultures and improve their environments in dramatic ways. The Verizon story about their dojo program is an enormous effort to turn an old, stuffy enterprise into a full-blown DevOps organization. 16,000 people will learn the ways of DevOps at Verizon through their program. It’s quite the story and if successful it’ll be one to tell for quite some time. GoCD — Open Source Continuous Delivery Server GoCD is a continuous delivery tool supporting modern infrastructure with elastic on-demand agents and cloud deployments. With GoCD, you can easily model, orchestrate and visualize complex workflows from end to end. It’s open source, free to use and download. SPONSORED ...

It’s great to be working again. It’s refreshing to be figuring things out, collaborating with others in real-time, and keeping my skills sharp. This week I did a lot of the typical on-boarding stuff but, also needed to refresh my Ansible and Kubernetes basics. I practiced by working on a Raspberry Pi Kubernetes cluster. I’ll talk more about this cluster elsewhere but, it’s amazing how rusty some skills get after a month and a half of not really using them. This week I will be in New York City for DevOpsDays NYC. I’ll be talking about testing certificate chains with Go. If you are attending please don’t hesitate to stop and say, “Hi!”. I promise I won’t bite and I probably will have some stickers to give away. GoCD — Open Source Continuous Delivery Server GoCD is a continuous delivery tool supporting modern infrastructure with elastic on-demand agents and cloud deployments. With GoCD, you can easily model, orchestrate and visualize complex workflows from end to end. It’s open source, free to use and download. SPONSORED ...

Is anything going on in the InfoSec arena this week? I couldn’t tell. If you have been under a rock this week I have some news for you. There are two vulnerabilities in CPU designs that essentially put everything we thought we knew about computer security on its head. Meltdown and Spectre are vulnerabilities affecting virtually all modern CPUs. I don’t think I could ever visualize a complete picture of all the vulnerable systems that are impacted. But, to put it in perspective, my first Windows PC was a used Dell something or other with a 486 DX2 66 MHz CPU I got back in 1995. If I still had it, I would not need to patch it. But, if you have a 120 MHz Intel Pentium CPU based system laying around, it’s impacted. The blast radius of these vulnerabilities is massive. Considering that, I am making a new section of the newsletter this week dedicated to Meltdown and Spectre. The reason for this is twofold: 1) There’s so much information in this space it could be a newsletter edition all by itself. 2) You might have some fatigue from these vulnerabilities. I don’t want you to skip over other awesome things in the newsletter. Scroll down past Tools for the Meltdown and Spectre section. Stay vigilant, keep your eyes open for patches, and rest assured Linus is PISSED. ...