April 2020 Free Training Special from Pluralsight!

The team at Pluralsight have kindly opened up the platform for free in order to allow folks to skill up while being under the challenge of the current worldwide situation.  Being at home should not mean being out of the game.  If you are looking to skill up on any of a variety of literally … Read more

Building a HashiCorp Nomad Cluster Lab using Vagrant and VirtualBox

One of the greatest things about open source and free tools is that they are…well, open source, and free!  Today I’m sharing a simple HashiCorp Nomad lab build that I use for a variety of things.  The reason I want to be able to quickly spin up local lab infrastructure is so I can get … Read more

AWS Summit Toronto Presentation: Open-source Infrastructure-as-Code with Terraform and AWS

This is the summary post which will cover my Open-source Infrastructure-as-Code with Terraform and AWS presentation that I gave at the AWS Summit in Toronto.  The landing link from my presentation may have brought you here and this post has all the links to the Github repositories, the PDF of the presentation, and also the … Read more

Clubhouse.io Software Project Management Free Plan? Yes, Please!!

They say the best things in life are free.  Today I was happy to receive an email from the team at Clubhouse.io which reminded me of that.  Thanks to a recent announcement by this exciting software project management and collaboration startup, the former “Small” package is now a Free Forever for up to 10 users … Read more