Automation and Infrastructure as Code

Rosemary Wang of HashiCorp, author of Infrastructure as Code, Patterns and Practices, talks about her experience in the open source world, and her passion for infrastructure as code. She discusses automation and common pitfalls, as well as the need to explore 'break glass scenarios' in case automation goes wrong. 

00:00 Introduction and Welcome
00:00 Open Source Conferences
00:52 Automation and Infrastructure as Code
01:19 Exploring the Concept of 'Break Glass' Scenarios
03:48 Common Pitfalls in Automation
06:31 The Importance of Auditing and Inspecting Automation
08:02 Advice for Early Career Engineers
18:16 Introduction to the Book 'Infrastructure as Code Patterns and Practices'

Guest: As the author of “Infrastructure as Code, Patterns and Practices”, Rosemary Wang works to bridge the technical and cultural barriers between infrastructure, security, and application development. She has a fascination for solving intractable problems as a contributor, public speaker, writer, and advocate of open source infrastructure tools. When she is not drawing on whiteboards, Rosemary debugs stacks of various infrastructure systems on her laptop while watering her houseplants.