The panel puts their heads together to talk about how to bring DevOps practices into a work situation based where they're not implemented. They discuss the various pro's and con's of specific practices and how to get people on board with adoption.

The panel jumps in and discusses the Minimum Viable Continuous Deployment from the manifesto on the web and discuss where they agree and disagree with the requirements listed there and clarify some of the ideas in the document.

Abhinav Dhasmana joins the adventure to discuss how he got Kafka to scale to handle thousands of messages. He explains how to scale Kafka up and how to allow applications to scale with the messaging architecture provided by Kafka.

Will and Jonathan jump in this week to discuss how to get started with a career in DevOps and how companies can get things started at your company with DevOps. They discuss the pitfalls of outsourcing your devops and how DevOps should be working within your application space and within your organization.

Henry Been and Erwin Staal join the adventure to discuss Microsoft's options for defining infrastructure as code on Microsoft's Azure cloud offerings. They walk the panel through setting up ARM templates and using the Bicep language to specify how your infrastructure gets set up , run, and managed.

Alex Feiszli from GRAVITL joins the adventure to discuss how to securely connect Kubernetes clusters across clouds from one cluster to another. The discussion spans how to make secure connections and how the connections might be used.

Troy Dreier joins the adventure to discuss Manning's LiveProjects platform where developers can work through exercises and learn the things they need to just-in-time. Andres Sacco is one of the authors on LivePlatform and joins the adventure to discuss cloud optimization and his experience building a LiveProject showing people how to optimize their cloud setup.

Will Kelly is a technical writer who joins the adventure to discuss bridging the gap between open source, development, and DevOps. He explains the personal and technical skills needed to help folks understand the need for using Open Source software and how developers and DevOps practitioners can communicate about the security concerns around complimentary practices of the two groups with the realms of their jobs.

The Adventures in DevOps panel take over and discuss whether or not DevOps Engineers need to know how to code. The panel offers their perspectives on the pros and cons of knowing how to code and the limitations placed on DevOps Engineers who don't know how to code and the tradeoffs of spending time on code versus other skills that can pay off for your customers.

Yitaek Hwang joins the adventure to discuss how he sets up development environments using well-understood open source tools that allow developers to understand and troubleshoot their own setups. This also allows devops to manage these setups in ways that mirror production.

Eyar Zilberman joins the adventure to discuss Kubernetes schema validation tools. The panel jumps in and discusses the power of and the pros and cons of the different kinds of schema validations.

Adarsh Shah joins the Adventure to discuss building out Environment as Code which goes beyond just Infrastructure as Code which defines your servers and networking. Environment as Code provides a way to define an entire component of your environment and connections between pieces. It emphasizes loose coupling and allows teams to deliver an environment for their applications.

Jonathan Hall joins the Adventure this week to discuss the advice he gives to clients to start continuous deployment before they have automated tests around their code. He explains why he starts here and the power of having a continuous deployment system. He, Will, and Chuck go into how to set it up and the pro's and con's of the approach and how it fits into a larger DevOps practice.

Jeffrey asked Chuck before the episode what he was planning for Devchat.tv. Chuck started answering and since the guest had answered, Chuck answers with the overall direction for Devchat.tv. If you want to join in, email chuck@devchat.tv.

Yishai Beeri joins the Adventure to talk about ways that we can communicate and coordinate to deliver great software. This holds both within development teams and between development teams and DevOps teams.