Uploaded August 2026 | Updated September 2026, 9 minutes ago
“Security has been for a long time a secure by default, which basically says: hey, you can secure it. Here’s all the options.” David Zendzian on the two-word flip that runs through the whole episode. Default secure is the opposite - the platform already made the call, and changing it means acknowledging that you did. Before he gets there he lists what that looks like in practice: you can’t run as root, SSH and remote access go off easily, mounting filesystems is restricted, and there’s no secret sprawl because the database credentials are the platform’s problem rather than yours.
Clipped from a conversation on containing an AI agent that got loose, with David Zendzian and @thecote on Tanzu Catsup.
Full episode: youtube.com/watch?v=lyar-Hndkxg
Interested in a platform that can help you with enterprise-y excellence? Check out: vmware.com/products/app-platform/tanzu
Tanzu Catsup is a weekly conversation about platform engineering, cloud-native operations, and building software in large organizations…and, of course, AI.
Check us out Fridays at 10am US Eastern/4pm Amsterdam time! In YouTube: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAdzTan_eSPSlg3nySSAI7DjrbN2Bt56r
Hosts: @thecote and David Zendzian
“Security has been for a long time a secure by default, which basically says: hey, you can secure it. Here’s all the options.” David Zendzian on the two-word flip that runs through the whole episode. Default secure is the opposite - the platform already made the call, and changing it means acknowledging that you did. Before he gets there he lists what that looks like in practice: you can’t run as root, SSH and remote access go off easily, mounting filesystems is restricted, and there’s no secret sprawl because the database credentials are the platform’s problem rather than yours.
Clipped from a conversation on containing an AI agent that got loose, with David Zendzian and @thecote on Tanzu Catsup.
Full episode: youtube.com/watch?v=lyar-Hndkxg
Interested in a platform that can help you with enterprise-y excellence? Check out: vmware.com/products/app-platform/tanzu
Tanzu Catsup is a weekly conversation about platform engineering, cloud-native operations, and building software in large organizations…and, of course, AI.
Check us out Fridays at 10am US Eastern/4pm Amsterdam time! In YouTube: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAdzTan_eSPSlg3nySSAI7DjrbN2Bt56r
Hosts: @thecote and David Zendzian
