Curiosity is the Skill You Should Hire, and Strive For

A resume or CV doesn’t usually tell you the full story. It also doesn’t give the right format for you to effectively tell your story. Why has this become the way that we review candidates or to try to become a potential candidate then? I’m a firm believer that the most important of all the … Read more

Free Download – DevOps Automation with Terraform and VMware

Content planning for 2020 is underway and I realized that it’s a good time to share the recent O’Reilly report that I had done in 2019 here with folks.  DevOps may seem a long way off, but the methods of automating your infrastructure creation in order to enable better DevOps practices is not.  Even VMware … Read more

DiscoPosse Podcast Ep 1 – Automation with Rob Nelson (@rnelson0)

EPISODE 1 – Automation with Rob Nelson (@rnelson0) PODCAST LINK: http://podcast.discoposse.com/e/e001-automation-with-rob-nelson-rnelson0/ LISTEN TO THE EPISODE HERE: In this episode we chat with Rob Nelson (@rnelson0) about automation. Everything from the why to the how, including some great info on Puppet, and how the community works together to drive great configuration management ecosystems like Puppet and … Read more

Quick Demo of Tags and Grouping for Automation Polices in Turbonomic 6.1

Tagging is a phenomenal way to identify your workloads.  This means VMs, containers, cloud instances, and pretty much every single layer of the application and virtualization/cloud stack.  I’m often asked how tagging comes into play with Turbonomic, so here is a really quick demo of how tagging is used to be able to do things … Read more