HCP Waypoint now GA with enhancements to golden workflow capabilities
Announced last year, HCP Waypoint is now generally available and so are templates and add-ons. The new release features HCP API support and an upgraded workflow for templates.
Writing about infrastructure and developer advocacy
These are some of my writings and blogs I have written over the years.
HCP Waypoint actions is now in public beta
The beta of HCP Waypoint actions to let platform teams expose Day 2+ operations and workflows to developers.
HCP Waypoint to add actions, enhances golden pattern capabilities, and more
The beta of HCP Waypoint actions — coming soon — will let platform teams expose Day 2+ operations and workflows to developers. Plus: enhancements to HCP Waypoint templates and add-ons.
A new vision for HCP Waypoint
Going forward, HCP Waypoint is aimed at empowering platform teams to define golden patterns and workflows for developers to manage applications at scale.
Introducing Hermes, An Open Source Document Management System
Learn about Hermes, an open source document management system created by HashiCorp to help streamline writing and document processes.
HashiCorp Consul Global Scale Benchmark
HashiCorp Consul updates 10,000 nodes and 172,000+ services in under 1 second in a new benchmark.
Announcing CDK for Terraform 0.1
CDK for Terraform now supports Java and C# and has new collaboration features on Terraform Cloud.
Introducing the Cloud Development Kit for Terraform (Preview)
Developer preview of the Cloud Development Kit for Terraform blog post on the AWS Developer Tools blog.
CDK for Terraform: Enabling Python & TypeScript Support
Community preview of the Cloud Development Kit for HashiCorp Terraform blog post on the HashiCorp blog.
Enabling Service Discovery Across Hybrid Infrastructure Environments using HashiCorp Consul and AWS Cloud Map
On March 27, 2019 AWS Announced General Availability of AWS App Mesh. HashiCorp Consul supports service discovery between App Mesh and Consul through this integration with Cloud Map. Read this blog to learn more about how this integration works.
Announcing Terraform Support for Kubernetes Service on AWS
Blog announcement about HashiCorp Terraform support for Kubernetes services on AWS.
Advanced Node Draining in HashiCorp Nomad
HashiCorp Nomad 0.8 introduces advanced node draining to simplify cluster wide upgrades of Nomad client nodes. This post explores how HashiCorp Nomad’s improved draining features can be used to drain an existing workload from one set of nodes to a new set of nodes without downtime.
Authenticating Applications with HashiCorp Vault AppRole
This post explores how machines and applications can use the HashiCorp Vault’s AppRole auth method to authenticate with Vault and access secrets.
Applying Policy as Code to Kubernetes Resources
This blog post explores using HashiCorp Sentinel in Terraform Enterprise to manage Kubernetes clusters and enforce Kubernetes service types and namespace naming conventions.
Smart Networking with Consul and Service Meshes
Over the past year, service mesh technologies have gained significant interest. Even though the idea of a service mesh isn’t new, the implementation details are new to some people. HashiCorp Consul is an open source tool that provides service discovery, health checking, load balancing, and a globally distributed key-value store. These features make Consul ideal as a control plane for a service mesh. This post discusses a few first principles around adopting service meshes and how Consul can be used as a control plane for projects like Istio, Linkerd, and Envoy.
I am joining HashiCorp
The post covers my thoughts about joining HashiCorp as a Developer Advocate.
Why all companies should have a Heroku-like platform for their developers
In this blog post we will explore how and why at Hootsuite we created a simple PaaS on top of Kubernetes using Deis Workflow and added a few kinks to make prototyping easier for developers.