It’s been a while since I posted anything, so I thought I might mention one of the minor public (FOSS) projects I’ve pushed recently: the IPv4 BYOIP pool(s) data source for the AWS Terraform provider.

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This year, I submitted a talk to Kubecon about Helm, Terraform, and Kubernetes, and…I was rejected!

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As part of my volunteering work with The Collab Lab, I gave a presentation on how to tackle technical interviews at large orgs. I’m sharing it here as an example of my presentation style and a demonstration of my experience in the interview process.

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Lately, I’ve been volunteering with The Collab Lab, a nonprofit org that works to give early-in-career (and predominantly not cis/white/male) folks exposure to the non-coding aspects of software engineering. It focuses on Code Reviews, Git, Retrospectives, and resume-building. It’s really great, and I’m proud to work with them.

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This is going to be a quick one; I recently had a really tricky Packer problem, and I don’t think I’m the only one who has had it (or will have it). I’d like to explain how I solved it.

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Good News, Everyone: I wrote a new Terraform module

One of the major holes in the GCP/Hashicorp ecosystem is the fact that there isn’t a batteries-included module to spin up Vault on GKE. So I decided to write one. If you’re a seasoned Terraformer, this will be pretty self-explanatory, but for the rest of us. I thought I’d walk through what this module does and why you should consider using it.

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