{"podcast":{"title":"Ship It Weekly - DevOps, SRE, Platform and Cloud Engineering News","slug":"ship-it-weekly-devops-sre-platform-and-cloud-engineering-news-7591275","podcast_index_feed_id":7591275,"rss_url":"https://media.rss.com/ship-it-weekly/feed.xml","website_url":"https://www.shipitweekly.fm/","image_url":"https://media.rss.com/ship-it-weekly/20260103_010109_fc16278a46c7b2c61123ed668a34f79d.jpg","author":"Teller's Tech - DevOps, SRE and Cloud Podcast","episode_count":55,"summary":"Ship It Weekly is a short, practical recap of what actually matters in DevOps, SRE, cloud infrastructure, and platform engineering. Each episode, your host Brian Teller walks through the latest outages, releases, tools, and incident writeups, then translates them into “here’s what this means for your systems” instead of just reading headlines. Expect a couple of main stories with context, a quick hit of tools or releases worth bookmarking, and the occasional segment on on-call, burnout, or team culture. This isn’t a certification prep show or a lab walkthrough. It’s aimed at people who are already working in the space and want to stay sharp without scrolling status pages, cloud updates, and blogs all week. You’ll hear about things like cloud provider incidents, Kubernetes and platform trends, Terraform and infrastructure changes, and real postmortems that are actually worth your time. Most episodes are 15–30 minutes, so you can catch up on the way to work or between meetings. Every now and then there will be a “special” focused on a big outage or a specific theme, but the default format is simple: what happened, why it matters, and what you might want to do about it in your own en…","last_synced_at":"2026-07-19T00:20:39.423055+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/ship-it-weekly-devops-sre-platform-and-cloud-engineering-news-7591275"},"episode":{"title":"Ship It Conversations: Evan Phoenix of Miren on Deployment Pain, Terraform, Waypoint, and Better Defaults for Small Teams","slug":"ship-it-conversations-evan-phoenix-of-miren-on-deployment-pain-terraform-waypoint-and-better-defaults-for-small-teams","published_at":"2026-07-06T21:00:03+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/ship-it-weekly-devops-sre-platform-and-cloud-engineering-news-7591275/ship-it-conversations-evan-phoenix-of-miren-on-deployment-pain-terraform-waypoint-and-better-defaults-for-small-teams","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/ship-it-weekly-devops-sre-platform-and-cloud-engineering-news-7591275","url":"https://rss.com/podcasts/ship-it-weekly/2967571","audio_url":"https://content.rss.com/episodes/356364/2967571/ship-it-weekly/2026_07_06_20_36_36_768d5629-e24e-49cd-bd71-ce5931bf4dc8.mp3","summary":"This is a guest conversation episode of Ship It Weekly, separate from the weekly news recaps. In this Ship It: Conversations episode, I talk with Evan Phoenix of Miren about why deployment is still painful, what teams keep getting wrong when they try to simplify it, and why small teams may need better defaults more than more platform knobs. Evan is the CEO of Miren. He previously worked on Terraform Enterprise and Waypoint at HashiCorp, and he also built Puma and Rubinius. We talk about deployment as the “final boss” of software delivery. Not because teams do not know how to ship code, but because deployment is where everything collides: runtimes, registries, secrets, networking, cloud services, databases, rollbacks, and the internal platform nobody wants to touch anymore. A big theme is opinionated tooling. Engineers often say they want flexibility, but many teams are really asking for good defaults, a clear happy path, and fewer decisions to own. We also get into Terraform Enterprise, Terraform Cloud, Terragrunt, OpenTofu, Waypoint, Kubernetes, Heroku, ECS, container registries, and how AI changes the deployment conversation. AI can generate infrastructure code, but when that setup breaks, someone still has to understand it and be on call for it. Highlights • Why deployment is still painful after years of platforms and abstractions • What Evan learned from Terraform Enterprise and Waypoint • Why Terraform structure, state, modules, and repo layout remain hard • Why OpenTofu gained traction beyond the Terraform licensing change • Why Kubernetes can be too much surface area for some teams • What small teams actually need from deployment tooling • How AI changes infrastructure and deployment workflows • Why generated infrastructure still needs ownership and accountabili…","meta_description":"This is a guest conversation episode of Ship It Weekly, separate from the weekly news recaps. 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