Day Two Cloud 142: OpenZiti Serves Up Zero Trust For Applications (Sponsored)

Today’s Day Two Cloud episode jumps into the deep end of the networking pool to talk about OpenZiti, an open-source project that brings zero trust principles to networks and applications. OpenZiti builds an overlay or mesh network to enforce zero trust. It has several moving parts including edge routers to enforce zero trust policies when you enter the network, a controller, SDKs to integrate OpenZiti with your applications, and tunnelers and proxies that work with your existing applications. Our guest is Clint Dovholuk, an OpenZiti developer and zero trust advocate. The term “zero trust” is currently being abused by vendor marketing departments, so Clint makes a case for why OpenZiti delivers zero trust. He also gets into technical detail about how Ziti works. The OpenZiti project was created by NetFoundry, a for-profit company that sells a commercial SaaS offering based on OpenZiti. NetFoundry is the sponsor of today’s episode. We discuss: * What zero trust means in OpenZiti * How to bootstrap trust * Dealing with identity in a zero trust environment * OpenZiti components * OpenZiti SDKs * More Takeaways: Application embedded Zero Trust really is the future OpenZiti is free and open source – you can install it and run it right now today! Adopting an OpenZiti SDK really is easy If you don’t want to host OpenZiti, NetFoundry provides free forever tiers Show Links: NetFoundry.io/daytwocloud OpenZiti – GitHub OpenZiti Repo – GitHub Ziti Dev Blog OpenZiti Discourse Group OpenZiti on YouTube @openziti – OpenZiti on Twitter @OpenZiggy – OpenZiggy mascot on Twitter Clint Dovholuk on LinkedIn Transcript: [00:00:04.330] – Ethan Welcome to day two, Cloud. [00:00:05.860] – Ethan We are jumping into the deep end of the networking pool today, talking about the Open ZD project, which is zero trust. It is applicationbased, and it is a lot more. There’s a lot going on here, isn’t there? [00:00:20.290] – Ned There is. And I think when people hear the words zero trust, they get a little concerned that it’s going to be a bunch of marketing hype and fluff. This is not that we dismiss that notion right away and then get down into the guts of what openZ does and how it can apply to either your applications or just your general systems. [00:00:38.810] – Ethan Our guest today is Clint Dovaloch. Clint is a developer and zero trust advocate. He knows where the bodies are buried in this project. I think he’s probably forgotten more than we even get to cover in this episode. He goes deep and it goes fast. So strap in and enjoy this conversation about Openzd. Clint, nice to have you today, man. I’ve done a lot of homework for this show. Getting set to try to understand this product,