DevOps and Docker Talk: Cloud Native Interviews and Tooling Backup S3, Google Drive, iCloud, Notion with Plakar
Bret is joined by the founders of Plakar - Julien Mangeard and Gilles Chehade - to nerd out over backup engineering. The kind where you're building your own file formats and cryptographic layers, not just wiring up cron jobs. We get into how Plakar deduplicates and encrypts at the source so your cloud provider never sees your keys. Also, their snapshot model has no chain dependencies, which means you can delete any backup without breaking the others. We had a fun hour of backup horror stories, ransomware pragmatism, where I'm lobbying hard for a Docker volume integration.
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- Cristi Cotovan - Editor
- Bret Fisher - Host
- Beth Fisher - Producer
- Julien Mangeard - Guest
- Gilles Chehade - Guest
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- (00:00) - Introduction
- (02:25) - Backup Engineering
- (07:07) - Restore First Mindset
- (09:13) - Plakar's Elevator Pitch
- (20:41) - Docker and Volume Backups
- (26:27) - Docker Image Deployment Challenges
- (29:10) - Backing Up the System
- (30:13) - Encryption and Architecture Modes
- (34:14) - Enterprise Scaling and Solo DevOps
- (36:05) - Ransomware And Encryption
- (36:44) - Source Side Dedup Demo
- (39:34) - Chainless Snapshots
- (41:24) - Sync And Multi Store Copies
- (43:56) - Crypto Audits And Repair
- (46:05) - Backup Stress Horror Stories
- (50:07) - Make Backups Usable
- (52:17) - Ransomware Detection Heuristics
- (58:23) - Cloud Native Positioning
- (01:02:13) - Kubernetes and Integrations