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I looked for something like this for years, and could never find it, so I ended up writing it myself: take a look at Fundamentals of DevOps and Software Delivery [1]. It's a hands-…

It means that whether you can use Terraform at any future company you work for will be determined... by HashiCorp. That's because the BSL license is intentionally vague. What does …

How do you know you're not competing with HashiCorp? That's not meant to be a redundant or snarky question. The key issue with the BSL and that FAQ is that the wording is intention…

We just moved the signatures to a table format, so you individuals can now add themselves to the table: just set the "type" column to "Individual." Thank you! https://opentf.org/

We just moved to a table format for pledges and brought back the commitments so you can see them: https://opentf.org/

The truth is that a fork hurts everyone. Imagine a future CTO trying to pick the IaC tools for their company. They see Terraform as an option, but then learn there are multiple for…

> if hashicorp thinks you are a competitor This is precisely the problem with the new BSL license. Whether your usage of Terraform complies with the license isn’t determined by the…

Gruntwork here. You can find our statement here: The Future of Terraform must be open—our plan and pledge to keep Terraform open source. https://blog.gruntwork.io/the-future-of-ter…

If you can use a Platform as a Service (PaaS) offering like Vercel, Netlify, Heroku, etc, you absolutely should! I always recommend those types of tools as the first stop tools to …

Author here. I tried to answer your question in the first two paragraphs. But to add some context, given the nature of my work, I hear from developers on a nearly daily basis who a…

There's a transcript of the talk on the HashiCorp website: https://www.hashicorp.com/resources/lessons-learned-300000-l...

More of the latter. Don't put all your eggs in one basket. Don't create a single "module" (i.e., single deployable thing) with 100,000 lines of code and all your infrastructure in …

Deleting prose and lines of code is still work. You have to read the text, think about it, figure out what would happen if you remove it, update all other places accordingly, and s…

Author here. I very much do understand that one line of "insertion" or "deletion" doesn't necessarily mean the entire line was rewritten. But as I wrote in the blog post, there are…

I'm one of the creators of Terratest. Happy to answer questions. The main question I've seen so far seems to be how Terratest compares with various "spec" tools (e.g., inspec, serv…

Gruntwork | DevOps Engineer | Anywhere | REMOTE http://www.gruntwork.io/ At Gruntwork, we offer DevOps as a Service. That means we help companies figure out how to do all the steps…

Gruntwork ( http://www.gruntwork.io/ ) | Anywhere | DevOps | Contractor At Gruntwork, we offer DevOps as a Service. Our mission is to make it an order of magnitude easier to unders…

Check out the talk Startup Ideas and Validation [1]. The key insights are: * Innovative ideas are rarely, if ever, eureka moments. They usually evolve after spending a huge amount …

1. "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes" by Arthur Conan Doyle. This may sound like an odd one, but years ago, I almost never took the time to read. My girlfriend, who knew that I lo…

I'm the author of a book published by O'Reilly: http://www.hello-startup.net/ Before I decided to write the book, I talked to a number of friends who were authors and they all basi…

> For instance, he talks about working strategies, and puts Google as an example. First, I also listed LinkedIn and Facebook. Second, many small companies use the same strategies, …