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I would have preferred HCL
I don't know a single person who prefers HCL over literally anything else, but still, it's a happy day for them so I won't air my entitled little complaints and instead say: thank you hashicorp! You made life as a cloud infra beard better for a while, and I wish you all success going onwards.
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I don't know a single person who prefers HCL over literally anything else, but still, it's a happy day for them so I won't air my entitled little complaints and instead say: thank you hashicorp! You made life as a cloud infra beard better for a while, and I wish you all success going onwards.
Way better than CDK.
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> nerds: stop bringing your own cake to other people's birthday parties. What does this have to do with nerds? Articles like that are probably written by PR staff.
Not sure you're aware but, that's the CEO of Gitlab. It's poor taste, by nerds who should know better. We should be better than this.
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I've seen the opposite, lack of a long promised IPO causing morale problems amongst employees...
If you want to really destroy morale tell your employees you're gonna IPO and then agree to an acquisition instead. Especially if that acquisition results in only a tiny bump in share price. Ask me how I know.
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#156Don't buy at IPO. Buy after the lockup expires.
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#157Don't buy at IPO. Buy after the lockup expires.
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#158Congratulations Mitchell, Armon, Dave, and everyone else at Hashicorp. We made a blog post to celebrate https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2021/12/09/congratulations-to-...
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#159Their symbol is hcp instead of hash, what a shame.
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At my company, they don't want to deploy OSS Vault on prem. Apparently we need the enterprise edition, because it is easier for our operations team.
Having used vault quite a lot, I'm not really sold on it. Do you see any value in this tool? I've done the whole sidecar mess, middle of the night three keys unlock like we're arming a nuclear weapon and everything, and most of the time it's just been a total faff and imo security theatre vs actual security. End of the day, the secrets are being written to a .properties file or /proc/ /env somewhere anyway and can be…
Vault's real value is in rotating credentials automatically. Some of that value has eroded over time, e.g. Kubernetes now having IAM Roles for Service Accounts. But Vault handles it for databases, and there are a variety of plugins to handle it for other usecases as well, e.g. https://github.com/martinbaillie/vault-plugin-secrets-github