DevOps Rob

Software Engineer
Co-host of the Keepin' It Secure Podcast
Frequent public speaker

Rob Barnes

Senior Developer Advocate at HashiCorp

Security focused Software Engineer and Developer Advocate from a DevOps background with over a decade of experience spanning multiple sectors. Co-host of the cloud security podcast Keepin’ It Secure. Idea incubator, big picture thinker and security innovator. Builder of OSS tools to empower developers to be secure by default. On a mission to lower developer’s barriers to entry for security, remove passwords from workloads, and enable the next generation of engineers to further advance the security industry.

Mentoring

Thought leadership

Communication

Analysis

Empathy

Influence

Skills

Vault

Expert knowledge and extensive experience in designing, deploying and extending scalable Vault implementations and consumption patterns. Proven track record of developing Vault plugins.

Terraform

Vast experience writing and maintaining Infrastructure as Code using Terraform. Maintatiner of more than 15 security focused Terraform modules with more than 9k downloads.

Go Development

Language of choice to extend the HashiCorp eco-system and build meaningful integrations to enable robust security solutions.

Python Scripting

Experienced in scripting system and platform automation tasks in Python.

Cloud Computing

Worked extensively with GCP, AWS and Azure to design and build production grade, fault tolerant, scalable application platforms.

Containers

Extensive experience building secure, scalable and repeatable application environments using multiple container runtimes and schedulers inlcuding Nomad and Kubernetes.

Recent Posts

DevOps Exchange London March 2022

Centralising your secrets management platform and Identity Provider is an essential part of adopting a Zero Trust mindset, but one of the biggest challenges facing DevSecOps Engineers and Developers in this new paradigm is how systems and applications can get that initial secret that grants access to the secrets management platform. This is commonly referred to as Secret Zero and can’t be stored in plaintext in the application code due to the high risk of exposure.

March 25, 2022 Read

Workload authentication to HashiCorp Vault with Azure IMDS and managed identity

In this episode, Rob Barnes from HashiCorp is back to show practitioners how to enable and configure the Azure auth method in HashiCorp Vault, as well as how applications hosted on Azure VMs can authenticate using a combination of managed identity and the Instance Metadata Service (IMDS).

December 21, 2021 Read

Part 2 | Zero Trust Security (ZTS) with HashiCorp and Azure: Automating Secrets Management

In Part 2 of 2 of our HashiCorp series, Rob Barnes from HashiCorp is back to discuss why a key component for zero trust security (ZTS) is reducing secrets sprawl for machine-to-machine authorization. Hear from Rob to learn about using dynamic secrets generation for Azure Resources with Vault.

December 21, 2021 Read