How do you keep track of your security, configuration states, and even out-of-date system-level

packages in your servers?

Well, what if you had 40,000 or more servers to manage?

How would your process scale then?

I'll tell you mine would take a few tweaks.

On this episode, you'll meet Colton Myers, who's a co-creator of Hubblestack.

Hubblestack is an open source security compliance framework.

It provides on-demand profile-based auditing, real-time security event notifications,

alerting, reporting.

And yes, Colton's group has over 40,000 servers, and Hubblestack is watching over all of them.

Learn about this cool Python-based framework on this episode of Talk Python to Me.

It's episode 187 recorded November 14th, 2018.

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during their segments. It really helps support the show. Colton, welcome to Talk Python. Let's get

started with your story and how you got into Python. I've been using computers since my parents

got a black and white Macintosh. I don't actually know what into Python. I've been using computers since my parents got a

black and white Macintosh. I don't actually know what I did. I should go back and figure out

what Macintosh it was so I can tell people. But I would play load runner on that when I was little.

I'm what, 30? Yeah, 30. I can never remember. So I'm I'm younger than than a lot. I guess I'm starting to get into the middle of the pack these days.

But yeah, I remember playing with that when I was like seven on this little black and white

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