Bret is joined by DockerSlim (now mintoolkit) founder Kyle Quest, to show off how to slim down your existing images with various options.

The slimming down includes distroless images like Chainguard Images and Nix. We also look at using the new "mint debug" feature to exec into existing images and containers on Kubernetes, Docker, Podman, and containerd. Kyle joined us for a two-hour livestream to discuss mint’s evolution.

Be sure to check out the live recording of the complete show from May 30, 2024 on YouTube (Stream 268). Includes demos.

★Topics★
Mint repository in GitHub

Creators & Guests

• Cristi Cotovan - Editor
• Beth Fisher - Producer
• Bret Fisher - Host
• Kyle Quest (aka Q) - Guest

• (00:00) - Intro
• (02:26) - The Evolution of Docker Slim
• (04:43) - Docker Slim's First Feature
• (10:04) - Forcing Change is Not Always Possible
• (13:29) - Docker Slim Name Change to Mintoolkit
• (15:13) - Dive vs Mint
• (18:45) - Mint and the Problem with Container Debugging
• (28:25) - AI-Assisted Debugging
• (34:46) - Hands-On Debugging Examples
• (41:27) - Debugging a Podman Image
• (49:00) - Kubernetes Debugging Example
• (59:00) - What is KoolKits?
• (01:05:48) - Future Plans for Mintoolkit
• (01:06:44) - cdebug: Dedicated Debugging Tool for Containers

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Bret is joined by Shahar Azulay, Groundcover CEO and Co-Founder, to discuss their new approach to fully observe K8s and its workloads with a "hybrid observability architecture."

Groundcover is a new, cloud-native, eBPF-based platform that designed a new model for how observability solutions are architected and priced. It is a product that can drastically reduce your monitoring, logging, and tracing costs and complexity, it stores all its data in your clusters and only needs one agent per host for full observability and APM.

We dig into the deployment, architecture, and how it all works under the hood.

Be sure to check out the live recording of the complete show from June 27, 2024 on YouTube (Stream 272). Includes demos.

★Topics★
Groundcover Discord Channel
Groundcover Repository in GitHub
Groundcover YouTube Channel
Join the Groundcover Slack

Creators & Guests

• Cristi Cotovan - Editor
• Beth Fisher - Producer
• Bret Fisher - Host
• Shahar Azulay - Guest

• (00:00) - Intro
• (03:16) - Shahar's Background and GroundCover's Origin
• (06:34) - Where Did the Hybrid Idea Come From?
• (12:11) - GroundCover's Deployment Model
• (18:21) - Monitoring More than Kubernetes
• (20:32) - eBPF from the Ground Up
• (23:58) - How Does Groundcover read eBPF Logs?
• (32:06) - GroundCover's Stack and Compatibility
• (36:18) - The Importance of PromQL
• (37:41) - Groundcover Also OnPrem and Managed
• (49:35) - Getting Started with Groundcover
• (52:15) - Groundcover Caretta
• (54:55) - What's Next for Groundcover?

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Bret and Nirmal are joined by Continue.dev co-founder, Nate Sesti, to walk through an open source replacement for GitHub Copilot.

Continue lets you use a set of open source and closed source LLMs in JetBrains and VSCode IDEs for adding AI to your coding workflow without leaving the editor.

You've probably heard about GitHub Copilot and other AI code assistants. The Continue team has created a completely open source solution as an alternative, or maybe a superset of these existing tools, because along with it being open source, it's also very configurable and allows you to choose multiple models to help you with code completion and chatbots in VSCode, JetBrains, and more are coming soon.

So this show builds on our recent Ollama show. Continue uses Ollama in the background to run a local LLM for you, if that's what you want to Continue to do for you, rather than internet LLM models.

Be sure to check out the live recording of the complete show from May 16, 2024 on YouTube (Ep. 266). Includes demos.

★Topics★
Continue.dev Website

Creators & Guests

• Cristi Cotovan - Editor
• Beth Fisher - Producer
• Bret Fisher - Host
• Nirmal Mehta - Host
• Nate Sesti - Guest

• (00:00) - Introduction
• (01:52) - Meet Nate Sesti, CTO of Continue
• (02:40) - Birth and Evolution of Continue
• (03:56) - Continue's Features and Benefits
• (22:24) - Running Multiple Models in Parallel
• (26:38) - Best Hardware for Continue
• (32:45) - Other Advantages of Continue
• (36:08) - Getting Started with Continue

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