Bret Fisher
banner
bretfisher.com
Bret Fisher
@bretfisher.com
Docker Captain 🐳 & Cloud Native Ambassador ⎈
Maker of best selling container courses 👨‍🏫
Beach life 🏖 | Navy vet ⚓️
Stream https://bret.live 🔴
Discord https://devops.fan 💬
Newsletter https://bret.news 📰
Links https://www.bretfisher.com/start
Pinned
YO, my next course is coming soon! I've opened the waitlist for those wanting to go DEEP in GitHub Actions for DevOps and AI automation in 2025. I'm so thrilled to announce this course that we've been working on all year courses.bretfisher.com/waitlist
Bret Fisher's Course Waitlist: GitHub Actions for DevOps
Jump on the waitlist for my next course launch: GitHub Actions for DevOps (in the age of AI). Learn basic to advanced GHA and how to use LLMs in your CI and CD.
courses.bretfisher.com
🎙️ Just published podcast episode 190: AI Wins and Misses for 2025
AI Wins and Misses for 2025
I'm joined by Nirmal Mehta of AWS and Viktor Farcic from Upbound, to go...
podcast.bretfisher.com
February 17, 2026 at 2:40 AM
Years ago, internet told me "balls out" was a sailor metaphor for fully stocked cannon balls, but ChatGPT says that's folklore and it likely came from pilots referring to full throttle because the "balls" on their control sticks were fully "out"
February 2, 2026 at 1:45 PM
🎙️ Just published podcast episode 189: Find your K8s happy path with RawKode Academy
Find your K8s happy path with RawKode Academy
I talk with David Flanagan, aka Rawkode, about his new opinionated Tech...
podcast.bretfisher.com
January 23, 2026 at 7:16 PM
Streaming some CI testing of AI #GitHub Actions youtube.com/live/UIklvek...
On Stream: AI in my CI
YouTube video by Bret Fisher
youtube.com
January 22, 2026 at 6:08 PM
#GitHub Copilot Pro Tip™. Copilot has lots of features/models, including the new Copilot Memory, but many are disabled by default. Check your settings: github.com/settings/cop...
Build software better, together
GitHub is where people build software. More than 150 million people use GitHub to discover, fork, and contribute to over 420 million projects.
github.com
January 17, 2026 at 11:08 PM
Aaron is so good at getting to the heart of why we are devs, and it's why his content and courses stand out as something I always read and watch.
They say AI is the end for developers.
They say the job market is gone.
They say learning to code is pointless.

I don’t buy it.

I think we're just getting started.
January 14, 2026 at 11:44 PM
Paul is a national treasure www.youtube.com/shorts/VhzJx...
Paul Rudd's Hollywood Beefs
YouTube video by Rick Glassman
www.youtube.com
January 14, 2026 at 11:33 PM
My stream/podcast is back in 2026! On Thursday's stream, the founders of @plakarkorp.bsky.social join me to walk us through their open-source cloud backup solution. #DevOpsandDockerTalk
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qpt4...
On Stream: Backup S3, Google Drive, iCloud, Notion with Plakar
YouTube video by Bret Fisher
www.youtube.com
January 14, 2026 at 7:16 PM
Being a Discord Server admin of a popular non-gaming topic has gotten so bad in the last few years, with daily spammers and scammers getting through *even with the highest level of protection -> phone number verification* I'm thinking of moving any paid community off the platform
January 12, 2026 at 3:39 AM
Google ruined Nest (not a secret) and they keep giving me new reasons to leave. After 4 years of bugging me to migrate my Nest acct to a Google "personal" one, I had to create a Gmail, add a cc, buy a plan, migrate devices, and then Google promptly locked me out saying it's a bot account. Awesome
December 20, 2025 at 10:36 PM
we're liveeeeeeeee!
My last stream of the year is Thursday! @mehtaverse-hq.bsky.social and @vfarcic.bsky.social join me to rant about our AI tools and what we'll still be using in 2026 and what we're leaving to gather dust in 2025.

What AI dev tools are you still using vs. quiting?

www.youtube.com/live/BX9lPK1...
On Stream: Best and Worst AI Dev Tools of 2025
YouTube video by Bret Fisher
www.youtube.com
December 18, 2025 at 6:02 PM
My last stream of the year is Thursday! @mehtaverse-hq.bsky.social and @vfarcic.bsky.social join me to rant about our AI tools and what we'll still be using in 2026 and what we're leaving to gather dust in 2025.

What AI dev tools are you still using vs. quiting?

www.youtube.com/live/BX9lPK1...
On Stream: Best and Worst AI Dev Tools of 2025
YouTube video by Bret Fisher
www.youtube.com
December 17, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Do you manage container image builds? I've wrapped up a major edit on my Silent Rebuilds tutorial and repo. Weeks of work! New blog and video content. #Docker #GitHub #GitHubActions www.bretfisher.com/silent-rebui...
Silent Rebuilds: Keeping Container CVE Counts Near-Zero
Starting with a slim/distroless container image is necessary today, but it isn't enough. You need daily automation to trigger rebuilds for dependencies and base image digest updates.
www.bretfisher.com
December 16, 2025 at 7:14 PM
My bank can't keep statements after a year, but Amazon still remembers what I purchased in 2000, including this banger. Only 1.8 stars? They must have hated the ending.
December 16, 2025 at 6:12 PM
I need to tell you once again, how to secure your #GitHub Actions, on stream rn youtube.com/live/jvcoH7A...
On Stream: Defend Against S1ngularity and Shai Hulud Attacks
YouTube video by Bret Fisher
youtube.com
December 11, 2025 at 6:47 PM
If you saw my video introducing "Cool Bret" for #KubeCon ( watch it first, below), you might not realize how many takes are needed during recording...
November 25, 2025 at 9:04 PM
#GPT 5.1 is wild with how it talks to me. It just gave me a guide for implementing some #GitHub security features and titled it "Putting it together like a DevOps adult".... I want to be a #DevOps adult. How can I be that?
November 25, 2025 at 8:00 PM
#npm is not having a good year.
November 25, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Reposted by Bret Fisher
What Kubecon trends did everyone see?
November 14, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Reposted by Bret Fisher
FYI: most of the #kubecon #cloudnativecon NA videos are up on youtube, should hopefully be all there by end of next week! www.youtube.com/@cncf/videos
CNCF [Cloud Native Computing Foundation]
To provide educational and informative content on cloud native computing, which uses an open source software stack to deploy applications as microservices, packaging each part into its own container, ...
www.youtube.com
November 14, 2025 at 8:17 PM
What's your favorite #KubeCon talk this week? Did you hear others recommend one? Let's make a list of the hits
November 14, 2025 at 4:59 PM
My fav part of #kubecon is meeting students and podcast guests IRL!
November 12, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Reposted by Bret Fisher
I'm Stoked! Tuesday. #KubeCon. 6:40pm during KubeCrawl. Come On Down to the CVE Price Is Right at the @chainguard.dev booth with me and @adrianmouat.com, seeing who can guess the closest (but not over!) the CVE count of popular open source project images for prizes #DevOps #DevSecOps #Sponsored
November 10, 2025 at 7:31 AM
I'm Stoked! Tuesday. #KubeCon. 6:40pm during KubeCrawl. Come On Down to the CVE Price Is Right at the @chainguard.dev booth with me and @adrianmouat.com, seeing who can guess the closest (but not over!) the CVE count of popular open source project images for prizes #DevOps #DevSecOps #Sponsored
November 10, 2025 at 7:31 AM
My #kubecon people. I'm running a full 20-minute game show about CVEs from the @chainguard.bsky.social booth during KubeCrawl with @adrianmouat.com and the help of Ville Aikas, Courtney Bennett, and @bethfish.bsky.social. I'm so excited I haven't slept much in weeks. You have to come see it.
November 7, 2025 at 10:46 AM