by Stephen Kuenzli | May 6, 2019 | Infrastructure As Code
Approximate Reading Time: 3 minutes Previously, we worked through how ‘infrastructure as code’ tools convert desired state into actual resources, in general. IaC tools construct a model of the desired state of your resources, merge information about what... 
by Stephen Kuenzli | May 3, 2019 | DevOps, Infrastructure As Code
What do we want? Compute resources!When do we want them?Now!Every team I’ve worked with We usually don’t care about the details of how those resources come about, as long as we get what we want. Here’s a ‘real world’ analog… When... 
by Stephen Kuenzli | May 1, 2019 | Cloud, DevOps, Infrastructure As Code
Managing infrastructure with code is a critical practice for delivering infrastructure with less drama. You can use code to deliver infrastructure quickly, consistently, and safely. Improving infrastructure delivery can help you improve on the four key aspects of... 
by Stephen Kuenzli | Apr 29, 2019 | DevOps, Strategy
Recently, the Hertz car rental company sued Accenture for $32M in damages. The suit (pdf) alleges breach of contract in Accenture’s agreement to build and deliver a new website. This new site was supposed to: support the Hertz, Thrifty, and Dollar brands,... by Stephen Kuenzli | Apr 26, 2019 | Secrets, Security
I synthesized and expanded what I’ve been sharing about delivering secrets to applications into a 1 hour talk and presented it at the Phoenix DevOps meetup on Wednesday. This talk covers (Recording (YouTube), Slides (Google)): the fundamental challenges of... 