Cloud Posse DevOps "Office Hours" (2021-06-16)

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[00:00:00​] Intro
[00:01:00​] Taylor intro
[00:03:00​] Taylor’s Terraform story
[00:05:50] What does a Senior Developer Advocate do?
[00:08:00​] How does HashiCorp manage so many community requests?
[00:09:42​] What are the benefits of using CDK for Terraform over vanilla Terraform?
[00:16:33] Terraform and multi-cloud limitations
[00:18:27] Where is terraform 1-2 years from now?
[00:22:53​] Does HashiCorp want to be an open source “Amazon” of DevOps services?
[00:27:05] Where is HashiCorp growing the most?
[00:28:28] Ideal image build workflow using Terraform?
[00:30:25​] HCP offering for Packer
[00:33:34] Removal of provisioners (e.g., Chef)
[00:35:35​] How 1.0 changed things
[00:38:03] Terraform debugging and testing
[00:42:54] Long term maintenance of demos
[00:46:42] Do you ever see HashiCorp creating a layer above Terraform to orchestrate many root modules / deal with that DAG?
[00:51:07] Could a custom Terraform Provider behave like a Kubernetes Operator?
[00:55:57] Has Terraform solved the problem Terragrunt was built for?
[00:58:29​] Outro