Let’s talk about freight shipments in the United States for a moment. You often see 18-wheelers and such hauling stuff back and forth on the roadways, but did you realize they only account for just shy of 30% of freight movement in the United States? At least by ton miles carried, railroads carry a whopping... Continue reading →

In this blog entry I’m going to detail the exact configuration and cover in some additional details the collateral resources you can expect to find once the configuration is executed against with Terraform. For the repository to this write up, I create our_new_world available on Github. First things first, locally you’ll want to have the... Continue reading →

Recently I did a series of talks focused around building Kubernetes Clusters. In these I demoed how Terraform can be used to build out a Kubernetes cluster and then ideas for working with that Kubernetes cluster or building out other infrastructure with Terraform around the Kubernetes cluster. I’ve posted the first of several posts that... Continue reading →

The last week has been a lot of fun travels, great meetups, and solid meetings. All focused around several key topics; traveling to nearby cities to speak & present on immutable infrastructure with Terraform and Kubernetes and… meetings to help build next generation applications for medical, personal, and privacy tracking information. Before rolling into this... Continue reading →

I like to take a trip down to Salem every now and again. It’s a great chance to break away from the daily grind in the bigger city. When I lived in Portland or now in Seattle, it didn’t matter, still a great small city to go visit. The other cool thing is I can... Continue reading →