Most of my career has been spent on infrastructure and data products, but recently I was asked to refocus slightly and work a bit more with data architectures in the cloud. That's a pretty broad list of topics, but who doesn't love a challenge. One of the first things I like to do when working with a new set of technologies is to set them up, break them, set them up again, and break them in a new and novel way. I am actually pretty talented at breaking things, so this part comes really easy. My first adventure was setting up Pivotal Cloud Foundry with Google Compute, and then using the Google Compute Service Broker. The first step was getting the IaaS setup and configured. I looked around a bit and located a very helpful Terraform repo that was exactly what was needed to jumpstart the process. Now, the process of setting up Google Compute for PCF was as simple as setting a couple variables and then running terraform apply. These Terraform scripts are very flexi
Blogs about the technologies I am working with.