The IaC Podcast

In episode 6, we sit down with Pepe Amengual, Principal at Slalom Build, and Dylan Page, Principal Infrastructure Engineer at Autodesk, to talk about the open-source tool Atlantis. We discuss building Atlantis’ open-source community of contributors and maintainers, newly-implemented improvements to the project, and more. Tune-in today!PePe Amengual is a 10x unicorn who fights crimes against Terraform by day and slays manual processes by night. He loves open source, devops and helping teams be awesome by empowering them with great tech.Dylan Page is a Principal Infrastructure Engineer for Autodesk, based in Detroit, Michigan. He works primarily on Autodesk's Construction Cloud product. Having joined Autodesk in early 2020, He has spent the last 3 years streamlining and improving an internal developer platform for the Autodesk Construction Cloud product specializing in Kubernetes and Terraform. Prior to Autodesk, He spent 5 years at DigitalOcean helping build and grow the developer cloud. He has spent a lot of time understanding developer needs and how to provide them with the best tools to deploy their applications and services with ease and reliability.

In episode 5, we chat with Elad Ben-Israel, Creator of AWS CDK and Co-Founder/CEO at Monada, to talk about how and why CDK was created, how Elad built a high-adoption community surrounding the CDK project, and what's next for Elad. Tune-in today! Elad Ben-Israel is the creator of the AWS CDK, CDK8s, JSII and Projen. After an amazing journey, Elad has recently left the comforts of AWS to start a new company called Monada. Monada’s mission is to democratize the cloud by reimagining cloud development from the ground up (pun intended of course). Elad lives in Tel-Aviv with his husband and 4-year-old twins, and in his spare time attends Burning Man and sweats at the local CrossFit gym. Elad has given several talks in the previous days of CDK in front of large audiences at multiple conferences around the world.

In this episode, we sit down with Andrew Brown, an AWS Community Hero and GCP Champion Innovator, to talk about Terraform and IaC tools. During the episode, we discuss the differences between popular IaC tools and which infrastructure management use cases (like drift, state management, and more) are best suited for them. Tune-in now to learn more!Andrew Brown is known for his multiple free cloud certification courses and cloud bootcamps across AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes, Terraform and more, teaching hundreds of thousands of students globally. Andrew Brown specializes in EdTech with 15 years of experience building learning platforms.

For our latest episode, we sit down with Amir Jerbi who is currently the Co-Founder and CTO of Aqua Security, a platform that provides scalable security for the complete development-to-deployment lifecycle of containerized applications. Amir brings decades of expertise on containers, Kubernetes, cloud security, enterprise software, software development and DevOps to the conversation. Amir formerly worked at CA Technologies in the security group, helping fortune 100 customers to secure their Linux and Windows hosts as they moved to virtualization technologies.During the episode, we dive in to providing security for cloud native and containers, and how tools like Trivy can help teams quickly find and correct vulnerabilities before moving to production. We also discuss how tools like TFSEC, which checks for the configuration of cloud resources that Terraform and the cloud formations are generating, can further close security gaps for teams. Listeners will also learn how to integrate the two tools to implement security best practices for their organizations. Tune-in now!

On this episode of The Iac Podcast, we chat with Elliot Graebert, Director of Engineering, Infrastructure at Skydio—a cloud platform that supports advanced autonomous drones and enables organizations to fly drones directly from their browser. Elliot's initial background was in Software Engineering, and over the past 7 years, he started Palantir's first DevOps team as well as leading 4 internal infrastructure teams. He is passionate about IaC and the value of having a balance between SRE and SE. Elliot also writes about DevOps/infrastructure projects on https://medium.com/@elliotgraebert.We discuss with Elliot the rise of self-service infrastructure, Terraform Cloud and Terraform Cloud alternatives as well as their challenges and benefits, and how these tools can encourage IaC collaboration and cross-functionality across developer teams. Listeners will also learn how to balance accessibility to IaC in their organizations with standard security measures. Tune in today!

In episode one of The IaC Podcast, we sit down with Hassan Khajeh-Hosseini, Co-founder and CEO of Infracost.io—a tool that shows engineering teams how their code changes affect Cloud cost estimates for Terraform in pull requests. Hassan has over 20 years of cloud engineering and product management experience. We talk with Hassan about shifting infrastructure cost left, how engineers can optimize their code to minimize costs, the emergence of multi cloud/multi framework workflows, and how understanding cloud cost is critical for businesses today. Tune in to learn more!