Nirmal Mehta
Principal Specialist Solutions Architect at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Appears in 28 Episodes
What you missed at KubeCon
At KubeCon EU 2025 in London, Nirmal and I discussed the important (and not-so-important) things you might have missed. There's also a video version of this show on Yo...
Best of Cloud Native 2024
Bret and Nirmal reunite for their traditional annual Holiday Special episode of breaking down the most significant developments in cloud native from 2024 and sharing p...
KubeCon Engineering Takeaways
Bret and Nirmal recorded this special offline episode at KubeCon North America in Salt Lake City. We hung out at the AWS booth to break down the major trends and devel...
Personal AI with Ken Collins
Bret and Nirmal Mehta are joined by Ken Collins to dig into using AI for more than coding, and if we can build an AI assistant that knows us.They touch on a lot of too...
Inspektor Gadget
Bret and Nirmal are joined by Chris Kühl and Jose Blanquicet, the maintainers of Inspektor Gadget, the new eBPF-focused multitool, to see what it's all about.Inspektor...
MLOps for DevOps People
Bret and Nirmal are joined by Maria Vechtomova, a MLOps Tech Lead and co-founder of Marvelous MLOps, to discuss the obvious and not-so obvious differences between a ML...
Traefik 3.0: What's New?
Bret and Nirmal were joined by Emile Vauge, CTO of Traefik Labs to talk all about Traefik 3.0.We talk about what's new in Traefik 3, 2.x to 3.0 migrations, Kubernetes ...
Flow State with VS Code AI
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 so...
AWS Graviton: The Great Arm Migration
Bret and Nirmal are joined by Michael Fischer of AWS to discuss why we should use Graviton, their arm64 compute with AWS-designed CPUs.Graviton is AWS' term for their ...
Local GenAI LLMs with Ollama and Docker
Bret and Nirmal are joined by friend of the show, Matt Williams, to learn how to run your own local ChatGPT clone and GitHub Copilot clone with Ollama and Docker's "Ge...
K2D by Portainer
Bret and Nirmal are joined by Neil Cresswell and Steven Kang from Portainer to look at K2D, a new project that enables us to leverage Kubernetes tooling to manage Dock...
Chainguard: Building Secure Container Images
Bret and Nirmal are joined by Dan Lorenc from Chainguard to walk them through Chainguard's approach to building secure, minimal container images for popular open sourc...
AWS Finch: The Minimal Local Container Solution
Bret and Nirmal are joined by Phil Estes of AWS to show us the Finch project, which bundles the best open source tools for building and running containers locally. Now...
Open Source Codespaces with Daytona
Bret and Nirmal are joined by Ivan Burazin and Chad Metcalf to debut Daytona, an open source "codespaces equivalent."Daytona is a development environment manager desig...
Postgres in Containers
Bret and Nirmal are joined by Lukas Fittl of pganalyze to dive into Postgres in containers, in production, and in CI.Lukas is an expert and founder of pganalyze, and I...
Docker Recap of 2023
Bret and Nirmal are joined by Michael Irwin, DevRel at Docker, to talk about all the products and features Docker shipped in 2023, and what's coming in early 2024. Mic...
Dagger: CI of the Future?
Application delivery doesn’t have to suck. Bret and Nirmal are joined by Solomon Hykes, the founder or Docker, to talk about Dagger and their application delivery-as-c...
KubeCon Live with Friends 2023
Bret is joined by Nirmal and a host of friends from the floor of KubeCon, to talk about the latest news and goings-on.We wanted to get some of our friends and people w...
Multipass Local Virtual Machines
Bret and Nirmal are joined by Chris Townsend, the engineering manager for Canonical's Multipass team, to discuss how to use Multipass as the easiest local virtual mach...
AWS Lambda Containers
Bret and Nirmal are joined by Ken Collins, AWS Serverless Hero and Principal Engineer at Custom Ink to discuss all things Lambda and to dig into the details of running...
Ephemeral & Preview Environments for Compose and Kubernetes
Bret and Nirmal are joined by Grayson Adkins and Josh Thurman on the show. They are co-founders of Uffizzi, an environments-as-a-service company for Docker Compose and...
OpenSauced with Brian Douglas
In this episode, Bret and Nirmal talk with Brian Douglas of OpenSauced. Brian Douglas, of GitHub fame, has founded OpenSauced, a cool web app and community of open sou...
Istio Ambient Mesh and Solo.io
Bret and Nirmal welcome Idit Levine, Founder/CEO Solo.io. Idit focuses on Service Mesh, API-GW and Multi-Cloud networking, and security.Idit has been involved in the C...
Best of DevOps 2022
Bret is joined by Nirmal Mehta of AWS and engineering consultant Laura Tacho, for the annual Best of DevOps.
Kubernetes Autoscaling with Karpenter
Bret is joined by Nirmal Mehta, a Principal Specialist Solution Architect at AWS, and a Docker Captain, to discuss Karpenter, an autoscaling solution that simplifies K...
GitHub CoPilot for DevOps? with Nirmal Mehta
I was given early access to GitHub Copilot and used it intensely for a week in my DevOps tasks before this show.
Learning Kubernetes Ingress with Nirmal Mehta
I chat with Docker Captain Nirmal Mehta of Booz Allen Hamilton about Kubernetes Ingress controllers and resources.
Pre DockerCon with Nirmal Mehta and Michael Irwin
In this episode, I have guests Nirmal Mehta, a Chief Technologist at Booz Allen Hamilton, and Michael Irwin, an Application Architect at Virginia Tech University.