i like writing about infrastructure

These are some of my writings and blogs I have written over the years.

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.

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Oct 15, 2024

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.

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Jun 25, 2024

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.

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Jun 4, 2024

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.

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Oct 11, 2023

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.

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Jan 31, 2023

HashiCorp Consul Global Scale Benchmark

HashiCorp Consul updates 10,000 nodes and 172,000+ services in under 1 second in a new benchmark.

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Apr 21, 2021

Announcing CDK for Terraform 0.1

CDK for Terraform now supports Java and C# and has new collaboration features on Terraform Cloud.

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Jan 15, 2021

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.

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Jul 16, 2020

CDK for Terraform: Enabling Python & TypeScript Support

Community preview of the Cloud Development Kit for HashiCorp Terraform blog post on the HashiCorp blog.

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Jul 16, 2020

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.

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Nov 29, 2018

Announcing Terraform Support for Kubernetes Service on AWS

Blog announcement about HashiCorp Terraform support for Kubernetes services on AWS.

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Jun 5, 2018

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.

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Apr 13, 2018

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.

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Mar 13, 2018

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.

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Feb 8, 2018

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.

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Dec 19, 2017

I am joining HashiCorp

The post covers my thoughts about joining HashiCorp as a Developer Advocate.

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Dec 4, 2017

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.

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Aug 4, 2017