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

One Vault to Secure Them All: HashiCorp Releases Vault Enterprise 0.7

There are a few key reasons that you need to look at Vault by HashiCorp. If you’re in the business of IT on the Operations or the Development side of the aisle, you should already be looking at the entire HashiCorp ecosystem of tools. Vault is probably one that has my eye the most lately … Read more

Using Terraform to Install DevStack on DigitalOcean

There are a few times where having a persistent OpenStack lab on a shared infrastructure is handy. I’ve been revisiting DevStack a lot more lately in order to help a few folks get their labs up and running. DevStack is the OpenStack project which lets you run non-production OpenStack using either a single or a … Read more

Talking HashiCorp with CEO Dave McJannet

This week at AWS re:Invent, I was lucky enough to be able to sit down with Dave McJannet, CEO (and fellow Canadian, eh!) of HashiCorp. As a huge fan of the HashiCorp products and story, this was especially enjoyable for me. I wanted to share some of the conversation and my thoughts with everyone here. … Read more