For some background on what's below, see Part 1 of this interview. Without further ado, let's continue into part 2! Integration challenges - there's a classic lower common denominator challenge. In the past I worked with VCE where putting a layer on top of just a "few things" (servers, storage, compute, hypervisors) was really hard … Continue reading HashiConf 2018 – Interview with Mitchell Hashimoto, Part 2

Yes, this would be the Mitchell Hashimoto for whom HashiCorp is named. For background, see this post about my attending HashiConf and a previous blog from a joint interview with Mitchell & Armon. Do read the previous interview blog first - it covers items I'd originally planned to ask Mitchell and will help what's below … Continue reading HashiConf 2018 – Interview with Mitchell Hashimoto, Part 1

If you follow HashiCorp at all, you're familiar with the co-founders - Armon Dadgar and Mitchell Hashimoto. While Amber Rowland had originally scheduled some time with Mitchell, there was so much good stuff in the Tuesday keynote (live blog here) it ran long disrupting executive briefing schedules. Result = 11:40 AM call from Amber - … Continue reading HashiConf 2018 – Interview with Armon & Mitchell

Today's keynotes are a couple different speakers. Started out with a photo montage... https://twitter.com/PariseauTT/status/1055136007299813377 Jeff Barr from AWS on stage next. https://twitter.com/andriven/status/1055136394023059456 If reading this, I ended up posting more on Twitter than here. Disclaimer: I attended HashiConf on a free media pass however paid for my own flights and hotel. There was no requirement … Continue reading HashiConf 2018 – Wednesday Morning Keynote

Watch the live stream at http://www.hashiconf.com/live Want the full press release of what's being discussed this morning? Look no further than the official press release here. HashiCorp Showcases Significant Product Updates Across its Multi-Cloud Infrastructure Automation Suite Keynote starting soon - this blog will be a combination of notes and leveraging what I'm putting on … Continue reading HashiConf 2018 – Tuesday Morning Keynote

TL;DR = HashiCorp makes cool stuff for IT Ops (and more). I'm going to HashiConf while on sabbatical to learn more and write about it. Depending on how we met, you might not know that my career started with 7 years in an IT Operations hands-on role at a university. This involved a little bit … Continue reading HashiConf 2018!