Daily Check-In with Ned1313

Go Outside!

05 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

One of the best things you can do for yourself is go outside and breath some fresh air. Get up close to some nice trees and maybe even give them a hug...

Compute as a Fundamental Right

03 Feb 2021

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Could access to the internet and cloud computing be a fundamental human right? Here are my thoughts on the topic. Also, check out this episode of Day ...

Opportunity Cost

03 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Each thing you choose to do also means you are choosing not to do something else. Here are my thoughts about how that applies to work and personal lif...

Immutable Infrastructure and Snow

01 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

I was meditating on the way that snow starts out pristine and unblemished, but is soon ruined by people. And that got me thinking about immutable infr...

Welcome Back!

29 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Hey y'all! I'm bringing The Daily Check-In back, but only in audio format. This is a stripped down version that I can easily do over a cup of coffee i...

The Last Daily Check-In

22 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

I've been giving this a lot of thought, and I have decided to stop doing the daily check-in videos. Let me clarify: I am STILL going to do  &nb...

Manage RBAC - CKA

19 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

The first objective of the "Cluster architecture, installation, and configuration" domain is to Manage RBAC. In this video, I am going to review what ...

Setting up my lab for CKA

18 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

As part of my preparation for taking the CKA exam, I am going to be creating a lab environment for installing Kubernetes. Let me take you through what...

Quantum ActiveSync is S3 On-Prem

17 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

I was a delegate for Tech Field Day 22 going December 9th through the 11th of 2020. Quantum presented on the first day, December 9th, about their Acti...

Terragrunt? Probably not.

16 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

I've had a couple viewers ask me about doing a video about using Terragrunt. After going through the getting started, and playing with it a bit, I'm l...

Red Hat at the Edge

15 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

I was a delegate for Tech Field Day 22 going December 9th through the 11th of 2020. Red Hat was one of the presenters on December 10th, and they came ...

VMware Cloud DR is Good Enough?

12 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

I was a delegate for Tech Field Day 22 going December 9th through the 11th of 2020. VMware present on the final day, December 11th, about their Cloud ...

Veeam Loves Mobility

11 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

I was a delegate for Tech Field Day 22 going December 9th through the 11th of 2020. Veeam presented on December10th, and there was a focus on disaster...

Commvault and Kubernetes - Tech Field Day 22

10 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

I was a delegate for Tech Field Day 22 going December 9th through the 11th of 2020. Commvault was the first presenter of the event, and they came out ...

What's New in Terraform 0.14?

09 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Terraform 0.14 is now GA and it brings with it a whole host of new features that I am excited about. Let's talk about a few of them including: Marki...

Pick Your Poison (Choose Wisely)

08 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

When you start to create technical content, it's usually spurred on by an issue you encountered or a discovery you want to share. You're feeling passi...

Certified Kubernetes Administrator - Study Guide

05 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

To help me focus and study for the CKA exam, I have started a public GitHub repository to function as a CKA study guide. Each week I will focus on wor...

Raspberry Pi PXE Boot FAIL

04 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

My goal was to get my Raspberry Pi 4 to PXE boot, and I failed. A lot. Like multiple times over the course of four hours. And that's normal. That's ju...

AWS Embraces Hybrid at re:Invent

03 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

There were a lot of announcements made at the day one re:Invent 2020 keynote, and they all followed the reinvent idea very closely. They also embraced...

Creating Modules in Terraform

02 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Here's a basic overview of what modules are and how to create one in Terraform. We'll also get into some best practices for creating modules, where yo...

Best Career Advice Ever with Larry Smith Jr.

01 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Today I am joined by Larry Smith Jr., CTO of Aspec Core Services. Larry has been in the IT industry a long-time and recently started his own consultin...

Vault Certification: Transit Engine

28 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

The final objective in the Vault Certification is all about using the Transit Engine. In this video we'll go over how to enable the Transit engine, cr...

Moving Resources in Remote State

25 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This is based off a viewer question I received via Twitter. They wanted to know about moving resources from one configuration to another when using re...

Certified Kubernetes Administrator Planning

24 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

The best way to motivate myself is to set a goal or a date and plan towards it. It worked for my first marathon, my first half iron man, and most of t...

Vault Certification: Vault Architecture - Part 5

21 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Rounding out the Vault Architecture objective, we are going to get into response wrapping and short-live, dynamically generated secrets. Vault certifi...

What is PXE Boot?

20 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Let's talk about PXE booting! Before we set anything up, it's important to get a grasp on the fundamentals. In this video I am going to cover DHCP, th...

You Don't Need a Service Mesh

19 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

On the first day of KubeCon the thing I heard most clearly was that you don't need a Service Mesh. There were two panels, both of which had Matt Klein...

Playing with Terraform Functions

18 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Terraform comes with a ton of functions, and often you might be unsure of how they work. Luckily, you can use a combination of terraform console and l...

Best Career Advice Ever with Betty Junod

17 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Today I am joined by Betty Junod, VP of Marketing at Solo.io. She shares her career history becoming an accidental marketing person, crafting words in...

Vault Certification: Vault Architecture - Part 4

14 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

HashiCorp Vault doesn't require an agent, but there are some benefits to using their agent and secrets caching. We're going to get into those two obje...

Home Lab Network Upgrade

13 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

After setting up my new lab gear, I discovered that my wireless router wasn't able to handle VLANs and NAT-P for the lab networks. Total bummer! That ...

Dark Times for Intel

12 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Intel has fallen on hard times. Their stock price is down, they can't seem to get chips out on time, and AMD is eating their lunch. What caused this p...

Moving Resources in Terraform State

11 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Terraform keeps it's view of the world in a state data, but what if you need to make changes to your configuration without impacting the real-world re...

Checking in on the Daily Check-In

10 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This is the 150th video I've done for The Daily Check-In and I thought  it was time to do a little introspection. Not that I'm trying to pat &nbs...

Running HashiCorp Vault on Azure Container Instances

07 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

One of the many ways to run HashiCorp Vault is within containers. Typically you would do this with Kubernetes or ECS, but what if you were looking for...

Running Ubuntu ARM on Raspberry Pi ESXi

06 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

It wouldn't matter much that you can run ESXi on a Raspberry Pi if you couldn't also fire up some virtual machines on it as well. Let's take a look at...

Multicloud and Disaggregation

05 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

What is my prediction for 2021? I think we will see the continued rise and expansion of disaggregated computing driven largely by Edge and alternative...

Terraform and Boundary - Part 2

04 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Boundary is a new product from HashiCorp and in this video, we'll take a  look at how you can deploy Boundary on Microsoft Azure with a reference...

Best Career Advice Ever with Bobby Allen

02 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Bobby Allen got on the cloud computing train back in 2012 and hasn't stopped moving! He's got some great advice for you about how to move your career ...

Best Career Advice Ever with Angela Andrews

28 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Angela Andrews is a Solutions Architect at Red Hat, a recovering  sysadmin, and organizer of #PythonForAll. In this episode she shares  some...

Vault Certification: Vault Architecture - Part 3

24 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Time to get into the internal guts of HashiCorp Vault by discussing its  architecture. This is the third video for that objective. We're going to...

Adding Raspberry Pi ESXi to vCenter

23 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

We are going to take a set of Raspberry Pi's running the new EXSi ARM  Fling and get them joined to a vCenter server. Along the way I learned a &...

Introducing Waypoint from HashiCorp

22 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

HashiCorp introduced Waypoint at HashiConf last week, and I wasn't going  to do a video about it, but more than one person asked me to. It's a &n...

When Terraform met Boundary - Part 1

21 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Over the next two videos, I am going to dive into Boundary's Terraform  provider. In this video, we'll talk a little about what Boundary is, how ...

Best Career Advice Ever with Holly Lehman

20 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Holly Lehman, Program Manager at Microsoft and all around incredible  human being joined me to share her thoughts on build a tech career from &nb...

Vault Certification: Vault Architecture - Part 2

17 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Time to get into the internal guts of HashiCorp Vault by discussing its  architecture. This is the second video for that objective. We're going &...

ESXi on a Raspberry Pi

16 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

VMware recently released their Fling for running ESXi on ARM-based CPUs and that includes Raspberry Pis. Let's walk through the process of getting ESX...

Announcing HashiCorp Boundary

15 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

At HashiConf Digital today, HashiCorp revealed one of two new products.  Called Boundary, it is a secure access management solution aimed at &nbs...

Terraform Kubernetes Operator

14 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

You can use the Terraform Kubernetes Operator to deploy Terraform configurations using Kubernetes constructs like ConfigMaps, Secrets, and the custom ...

Best Career Advice Ever with Tanya Janca

13 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

The amazing Tanya Janca joined me to talk about some of the best career advice she ever received, including such highlights as:    - Do...

Vault Certification: Vault Architecture - Part 1

10 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Time to get into the internal guts of HashiCorp Vault by discussing its  architecture. This is going to be the first of several videos on the &nb...

Home Lab Networking Adventures

09 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

I bought a Cisco 3560-X switch for my home lab. Here's how I set up my  networking, and also how I ran into a bit of an issue. Hint: home WiFi &n...

Pure Storage at #TFDx #VMworld

08 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

On October 6th, Pure Storage presented at Tech Field Day Extra for  VMworld. There were two big takeaways for me: FlashStack shows HCI isn't &nbs...

Terraform 0.14 and Future Demos

07 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Terraform 0.14 is in alpha, but I've been tracking some features, you  can see them here:  https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform/tree/v0.14...

Vault Certification: Vault API

03 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Time to tackle some basics with the Vault API using our good friend  curl. We are going to review how to authenticate, access a vault secret, &nb...

Setting up my new Supermicro Server

02 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

I recently purchased some new Supermicro servers for my homelab. This  video will show how to install components into a Supermicro SYS-E200-8D &n...

Project Monterey at VMworld 2020

01 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

VMware announced Project Monterey yesterday during the keynote at  VMworld 2020. Let's talk about what the project is, how different  networ...

Google Cloud with Terraform

30 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

I'm working on a project to use Terraform with Google Cloud. It's  complicated! Things I learned:  1. Google does not have a native MongoDB ...

Best Career Advice Ever with Jeremy Morgan

29 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Jeremy Morgan joins me today to share his three H's of career advancement: stay hungry, stay honest, and stay humble.

Vault Certification: Vault UI

26 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

We are going to cover how to use the Vault UI to do some common tasks.   Check out my new Vault Certification guide: https://leanpub.com/vault-ce...

Planning My Home Lab

25 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

After doing a bunch of Raspberry Pi things, I've been consider what I  want to do with my home lab and what I want to get out of it. Here's &nbsp...

Microsoft Ignite 2020 Highlights

24 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

The highlights for me are around Azure Arc, Azure Stack, and Azure  VMware Service. In this video I'll explore each on in turn and explain  ...

Terraform Cloud: Using the CLI

23 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

You don't have to use a version control system to get in on Terraform  Cloud! In this video, I'll show you how to get start with Terraform  ...

Best Career Advice Ever with Keith Townsend

22 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Keith Townsend joins me today to share what the best career advice he ever got was and how it changed his life. Keith's BCAE moments?   1. It tak...

Vault Certification: Vault CLI - Part 3

19 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

We're going to wrap up the topic by looking at enabling and configuring  secrets engines, and checking out Vault environment variables.

USB Boot on Raspberry Pi 4

18 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

SD cards have a pretty high failure rate on Raspberry Pi's. The  Raspberry Pi 4 recently started supporting boot from a USB mass media  devi...

Kubernetes is the New Storage Battleground

17 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

With the acquisition of Portworx by Pure, it got me thinking about the  evolution of storage for Kubernetes and what the landscape looks like.

Getting Started with Terraform Cloud

16 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Terraform Cloud is free for up to five users and it has some pretty cool  features. In this video, we'll see how it can be integrated with GitHub...

Best Career Advice Ever with David Davis

15 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

David Davis joins me today to share what the best career advice he ever got was and how it changed his life.  1. Stay hungry  2. Don't be co...

Vault Certification: Vault CLI - Part 2

12 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

We are going to continue our little journey into the Vault CLI by focusing on configuring authentication methods and policies.   GitHub Repo: htt...

K3s on RPi: Part 2 - Making the Cluster

11 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This time we're going to try and set up a full cluster and see what  happens. I'm using v1.19.1 of K3s which is experimental, and that equals &nb...

WASM and the DevOps Divide

10 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

As I'm learning more about Web Assembly and its potential, I'm also realizing how blended Dev and Ops are becoming. This is going to continue, so if y...

Azure Quickstarts with Terraform - Daily Check-In for September 08, 2020

09 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Looking around this week, I found a cool repository of Terraform  configurations that translate existing Azure Quickstarts to use  Terraform...

Best Career Advice Ever. - Daily Check-In for September 7, 2020

08 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

What is the best career advice you ever got and how did it change your  life? I can point to two separate occasions where someone said something ...

Vault Certification: Vault CLI - Part 1

05 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

We are going to get into the Vault CLI in this episode. Specifically,  we'll talk about using the Vault CLI at a high level and some of the &nbsp...

K3s on RPi: Part 1 - Daily Check-In for September 3, 2020

04 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

I tried to set up a K3s cluster using three Raspberry Pis. It did not go  smoothly. In this first part of the series I will cover the initial &nb...

Service Mesh Hub-bub - Daily Check-In for September 2, 2020

03 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

There has been an explosion of Service Meshes out there. What does the  current landscape look like, and are there some common patterns or  ...

Terraform + Vault - Daily Check-In for September 1, 2020

02 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

How can Terraform and Vault work together?   - Terraform can configure Vault   - Terraform can get secrets from Vault   ...

Avoiding Burnout - Daily Check-In for August 31, 2020

01 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

As the pandemic drags on many of us are hitting a breaking point. We all  collectively hoped that Autumn would bring some semblance of normality....

Vault Cert: Secrets Engines - Daily Check-In for August 28, 2020

29 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This is part 2 for Object 5 in the Vault certification. We'll be talking  more about Vault Secrets Engines, including the Transit Engine and &nbs...

One Hundred Episodes - Daily Check-In for August 27, 2020

28 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

I'm now over 100 episodes of the daily check-in. How are things going?  How have things changed? And what's the plan for the future?

Cloud 2030 - Daily Check-In for August 26, 2020

27 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

What do you think cloud computing will look like in the year 2030? Rob  Hierschfeld and friends have started a group to discuss this very topic. ...

GitHub Actions with Terraform - Daily Check-In for August 25, 2020

26 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

How do you use GitHub actions to automate the validation and deployment  of Terraform code to your environment? That's the topic for this week. &...

IT is a Service - Daily Check-In for August 24, 2020

25 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Interesting Twitter post last week asking about what service job you had  as a youth and what lessons you learned. Here's what I learned from &nb...

Vault Cert: Secrets Engines - Daily Check-In for August 21, 2020

22 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

We're going to get started on Objective 5 by talking about Vault secrets  engines. I think the objectives are in a weird order, so let's do them ...

Data Governance at the Edge - Daily Check-In for August 20, 2020

21 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Data being generated at the Edge is going to increase exponentially. How  do we apply proper data governance to an immense volume of data? Do &nb...

Why Multicloud Makes Sense - Daily Check-In for August 19, 2020

20 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Unpopular opinion I guess. Multicloud makes sense and you're probably already doing it.

Terraform Active Directory Provider - Daily Check-In for August 18, 2020

19 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

The Terraform Active Directory provider is now available. I took it for a spin and found some interesting challenges.  Here's the GitHub repo for...

Don't Be an A**hole - Daily Check-In for August 17, 2020

18 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

A post I read over the weekend really got under my craw. And it made me  think about the differences between an assertive person and an asshole.

Vault Cert Leases - Daily Check-In for August 14, 2020

15 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Let's talk about Objective 4 for Vault - Leases! 4 Manage Vault leases 4a Explain the   purpose of a lease ID 4b Renew leases 4c Revoke leas...

Edgevana Official Launch - Daily Check-In for August 13, 2020

14 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Mark Thiele and Subhan Jahromi have founded Edgevana and officially  launched the site. Service coming soon. What is this thing and why  sho...

Nutanix on AWS - Daily Check-In for August 12, 2020

13 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Does Nutanix on AWS make sense? I'm not convinced.  CTO Advisor series on VMC: https://www.youtube.com/c/TheCTOAdvisor/videos

Terraform 0.13 is GA - Daily Check-In for August 11, 2020

12 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

What are the new features to watch out for?    Module improvements : Count, depends_on, and for_each  Providers: Third-party auto insta...

Gatekeeping is Bullsh*t - Daily Check-In for August 10, 2020

11 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Google announced a 6 month cert and people lost their minds. https://grow.google/certificates/

Vault Cert Tokens Cont - Daily Check-In for July 31, 2020

01 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Finishing objective three for the Vault Certification. We're going to  look at orphaned tokens and combine what we've learned so far.  &nbsp...

Edge Data Flows - Daily Check-In for July 30, 2020

31 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Is Edge a natural progression of compute? How do bottlenecks play into  Edge? Why is a tree like a traffic system is like our circulatory  s...

Diamanti at CFD8 - Daily Check-In for July 29, 2020

30 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Diamanti presented at Cloud Field Day 8 (#CFD8). Here are my thoughts on their products.    The Cloud Field Day presentation: https://diaman...

HTTP and External Providers - Daily Check-In for July 28, 2020

29 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

They're kinda weird. A bit wacky. And 100% useful!    Terraform Tuesdays GitHub: https://github.com/ned1313/terraform-tuesdays   Terraf...

NO! - Daily Check-In for July 27, 2020

28 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

You have to learn to say no. And by you, I mean me.

Vault Certification: Tokens Cont. - Daily Check-In for July 24, 2020

25 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Continuing our exploration of Vault tokens. We're going to cover token  accessors and TTLs. You'd think TLLs were simple, but they get  comp...