That is my question. Do I use Kubernetes extensively in my next HashiCorp Vault course or stick with an IaaS deployment. The answer, of course, is to do both. I think I'll end up leaning more into the K8s side of things, but I don't want to leave the VM folks out! ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/nedinthecloud Website: https://nedinthecloud.com Pluralsight: https://app.pluralsight.com/profile/au...
Jul 28, 2021•10 min•Season 7Ep. 12
Microsoft, Apple, and Google all reported record earnings. But the pandemic hasn't been so kind to everyone. Are tech companies getting too big? Can small companies still posed a threat? How does the inherent unfairness of life tie into all this? ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/nedinthecloud Website: https://nedinthecloud.com Pluralsight: https://app.pluralsight.com/profile/author/edward-bellav...
Jul 27, 2021•10 min•Season 7Ep. 11
The annual State of DevOps report from Puppet is out and some of the conclusions mirror what I've been hearing in the industry. DevOps teams are out, Team Topologies are in. Using the vanilla cloud is out, and building an internal platform is in. This is an opportunity for infrastructure engineers to get their programming merit badge while providing real value to the business. Cool stuff! Link to the report: https://puppet.com/resources/report/2021-state-of-devops-report/ -----------------...
Jul 27, 2021•10 min•Season 7Ep. 10
Mitchell Hashimoto has announced he is stepping away from a leadership position at HashiCorp to focus on an engineering, individual contributor role. That is a massive change, but I also think it will be great for HashiCorp and for Mitchell himself. Mitchell's post: https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/mitchell-s-new-role-at-hashicorp ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/nedinthecloud Website: https://ned...
Jul 23, 2021•10 min•Season 7Ep. 9
When it comes to outages and incident response the most important is people. Having the right people is going to make all the difference when production breaks, and I can guarantee that it will. We're all testing in production and hoping for the best. Plan for the worst and have the right people that can help! ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/nedinthecloud Website: https://nedinthecloud.com Plur...
Jul 22, 2021•10 min•Season 7Ep. 8
Sometimes you have a good day as a content creator. Today was one of those days. So I am going to take a moment and just enjoy it. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/nedinthecloud Website: https://nedinthecloud.com Pluralsight: https://app.pluralsight.com/profile/author/edward-bellavance GitHub: https://github.com/ned1313...
Jul 21, 2021•8 min•Season 7Ep. 7
Google and Microsoft have very distinct design philosophies and nowhere is that more obvious than on GCP vs. Azure. Microsoft's approach boils down to simplicity and ease of use. But there's a cost to simplicity, and that cost is usually paid by security. Google, in contrast, prefers lean and efficient systems, at the cost of consumer experience. I don't think either approach is fundamentally better, but I think I know which the market prefers. ---------------------------------------------------...
Jul 20, 2021•10 min•Season 7Ep. 6
To learn to program or not? That is the question. Whether it is nobler to suffer the slings and arrows of IaC infrastructure, or takes arms against a sea of troubles and by learning Python end them? Every three months or so I find myself pondering the question once again, and still I am undecided. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/nedinthecloud Website: https://nedinthecloud.com Pluralsight: http...
Jul 16, 2021•9 min•Season 7Ep. 5
I mean you can, if you really want to. But there are so many possible paths to take in tech and not all of them include managing people. Some folks are great at it, others learn to be great at it, and then there's those of us who just can't. If you can't, don't. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/nedinthecloud Website: https://nedinthecloud.com Pluralsight: https://app.pluralsight.com/profile/auth...
Jul 15, 2021•11 min•Season 7Ep. 4
Sometimes I am asked why the applications and infrastructure I deploy in my demos and videos is so simplistic. And there's a good reason, several in fact. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/nedinthecloud Website: https://nedinthecloud.com Pluralsight: https://app.pluralsight.com/profile/author/edward-bellavance GitHub: https://github.com/ned1313...
Jul 15, 2021•10 min•Season 7Ep. 3
It's easy to get caught up in the numbers game of social media. But even the most famous folks in tech aren't actually that famous. With the exception of an Elon Musk or Jeff Bezos, tech famous folks aren't going to get stopped in the street and they're certainly not signing autographs. Tech famous folks are just like you and me, and that's a relief. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/nedintheclou...
Jul 13, 2021•10 min•Season 7Ep. 2
Cloud empowers you to do stupid at scale. That could be a fat-fingered value, a major security hole, or a poorly written application. Cloud isn't going to fix everything for you, it just let's you do it harder, faster, and more expensively. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/nedinthecloud Website: https://nedinthecloud.com Pluralsight: https://app.pluralsight.com/profile/author/edward-bellavance G...
Jul 12, 2021•10 min•Season 7Ep. 1
Technology moves too fast for us to accurately predict the future. How do you plan for the next two years when you can barely predict the next six months? The answer doesn't lie in technology. It's people. Always has been. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/nedinthecloud Website: https://nedinthecloud.com Pluralsight: https://app.pluralsight.com/profile/author/edward-bellavance GitHub: https://git...
Jun 26, 2021•11 min•Season 6Ep. 19
Not sure this release deserves an increment in the major version counter, but here we are. Things to get excited about? Snap groups. Things to ignore? Android apps on Windows. Everything else is incremental and cosmetic improvements. Which is fine, but not worth the bluster. Unless you're a newly appointed executive in charge of the Windows Experience and trying to leave your mark. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Patreon: http...
Jun 25, 2021•12 min•Season 6Ep. 18
It's not necessarily a bad thing, but let's not view the whole decade through rose-tinted glasses. There were some pretty heinous things happening in the 90s, and if we romanticize the past we fail to learn from it. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/nedinthecloud Website: https://nedinthecloud.com Pluralsight: https://app.pluralsight.com/profile/author/edward-bellavance GitHub: https://github.com...
Jun 23, 2021•9 min•Season 6Ep. 17
I ran out of time. No really, that's the answer to the big mystery. Too many projects and not enough time to do them all. But I've got plans. Ooooh, I've got PLANS. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/nedinthecloud Website: https://nedinthecloud.com Pluralsight: https://app.pluralsight.com/profile/author/edward-bellavance GitHub: https://github.com/ned1313...
Jun 22, 2021•8 min•Season 6Ep. 16
Could you get all your work done in four days instead of five? I bet you could. Sure you'd need to be a bit more focused and a bit more miserly with your time. But I bet you could do it, and then you'd have a three-day weekend every week! The Atlantic article: https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2021/06/four-day-workweek/619222/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/nedinthecloud Website: http...
Jun 21, 2021•11 min•Season 6Ep. 15
You've just finished your shiny new project and made it available to the world. And they love it! That's great. Now you've got to maintain it until people don't love it. How many projects can you sustain and when do you cut off the unwashed masses from your sweet, sweet awesomeness? ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/nedinthecloud Website: https://nedinthecloud.com Pluralsight: https://app.plurals...
Jun 18, 2021•9 min•Season 6Ep. 14
Slogging through a difficult project is challenging for anyone. A conversation today made me think about my approach and consider if there was a better one. It also motivated me to fix some issues with a Terraform course, so that was positive. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/nedinthecloud Website: https://nedinthecloud.com Pluralsight: https://app.pluralsight.com/profile/author/edward-bellavanc...
Jun 17, 2021•10 min•Season 6Ep. 13
Sure we can create Infrastructure as Code, but does it make more sense to create infrastructure using software? This was an idea put forth by Kris Nova, and I have to admit I find her logic a-pleasing. Blog post: https://nivenly.com/lib/2021-06-13-ias/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/nedinthecloud Website: https://nedinthecloud.com Pluralsight: https://app.pluralsight.com/profile/author/edward-...
Jun 16, 2021•10 min•Season 6Ep. 12
With the explosion of popularity in podcasting, I start to wonder what will happen to us small fries out there. Will we get steamrolled by the Spotify's of the world, or will we sneak by unnoticed as lumbering giants traverse the pod-o-sphere? ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/nedinthecloud Website: https://nedinthecloud.com Pluralsight: https://app.pluralsight.com/profile/author/edward-bellavanc...
Jun 16, 2021•11 min•Season 6Ep. 11
This weekend I got to run in my first race since the pandemic. It was a little weird, a little awkward, and I was a little out of practice. And that's a solid analogy for all of us post-pandemic. Seems like the keys is to take it slow, expect it to be strange, and give yourself and others grace to stumble. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/nedinthecloud Website: https://nedinthecloud.com Pluralsi...
Jun 14, 2021•10 min•Season 6Ep. 10
Should you be in the data center business? What is the big benefit of moving into a colocation facility? The answer is connectivity. To the cloud, to your users, and to other businesses. Colocation providers aren't just providing rack space and power. They're providing a robust set of connection options to the edge, the cloud, and everything in between. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/nedinthec...
Jun 11, 2021•10 min•Season 6Ep. 9
If Edge is the future, why is it taking so long? The answer is routing. There's no real advantage to dropping solutions at a tower if you can't get them directly. Public and private 5G networks are going to fix the routing problem. And that is going to change everything. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/nedinthecloud Website: https://nedinthecloud.com Pluralsight: https://app.pluralsight.com/pro...
Jun 10, 2021•10 min•Season 6Ep. 8
I do a lot of project based work, and the goal is to accomplish projects within a set timeframe. As long as I produce high quality content within an agreed upon timeframe, it shouldn't matter how long it actually took me to do the work. And yet, I still have this nagging idea in the back of my head about working 40 hours. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/nedinthecloud Website: https://nedinthecl...
Jun 10, 2021•11 min•Season 6Ep. 7
At HashiConf EU 2021, the Terraform team announced that Terraform version 1.0 is generally available. What does 1.0 mean for Terraform? Are there any big improvements? And what does the future look like for Terraform after reaching this milestone? Official announcement post: https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/announcing-hashicorp-terraform-1-0-general-availability ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ne...
Jun 08, 2021•10 min•Season 6Ep. 6
Behavior and motivation is a super-complicated topic and parsing out how an organization will react to the way its measured is a enigma many an MBA have failed to crack. Ultimately, you have to know what your organization is trying to accomplish, figure out what you need to measure to get there, and make the process transparent for your employees. The post that inspire me: https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2021/06/01/count/ -----------------------------------------------------------------------------...
Jun 08, 2021•11 min•Season 6Ep. 5
And yet… There's a perception that upgrading systems should be a difficult affair. It's how sysadmins prove their mettle. You know what? I don't have to prove a damn thing. Upgrades should be simple, predictable, and uneventful. We've managed to crack that nut on consumer devices, now it's time to apply the same logic to enterprise apps. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/nedinthecloud Website: ht...
Jun 05, 2021•10 min•Season 6Ep. 4
The first impression many engineers and admins have of your software is the docs. They need to be clear, correct, and easy to find. Great docs aren't easy, but they make customers happy. And you want happy customers right? ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/nedinthecloud Website: https://nedinthecloud.com Pluralsight: https://app.pluralsight.com/profile/author/edward-bellavance GitHub: https://git...
Jun 03, 2021•10 min•Season 6Ep. 3
Following quickly on the acquisition by Vista Equity Partners, Pluralsight (now flush with investor capital) has made the move to acquire A Cloud Guru for an undisclosed sum. ACG itself had acquired Linux Academy in late 2019 and is still working through the integration process. Reddit is displeased, but I think it's necessary consolidation in the marketplace. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ne...
Jun 03, 2021•10 min•Season 6Ep. 2
