I'm now over 100 episodes of the daily check-in. How are things going?  How have things changed? And what's the plan for the future?

What do you think cloud computing will look like in the year 2030? Rob  Hierschfeld and friends have started a group to discuss this very topic.  Why not join into the conversation?   

Link to Mighty Networks: https://cloud2030.mn.co 

Link to L8ist Sh9ny podcast:  https://l8istsh9y.com/2020/08/08/announcing-the-cloud-2030-online-community-event/ 

Intro video:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lw-WtnVdjY&feature=youtu.be

How do you use GitHub actions to automate the validation and deployment  of Terraform code to your environment? That's the topic for this week.  You can hear more about GitHub actions on an episode of Day Two Cloud we  did with Chris Wahl.   

Dot Net Liverpool Meetup:  https://www.meetup.com/Dot-NET-Liverpool/events/272306762/

 Day Two Cloud Episode:  https://daytwocloud.io/podcast/day-two-cloud-050-nerding-out-on-github-actions-with-chris-wahl/ 

Terraform Cert Guide: https://leanpub.com/terraform-certified/

Interesting Twitter post last week asking about what service job you had  as a youth and what lessons you learned. Here's what I learned from  working food service and retail.

We're going to get started on Objective 5 by talking about Vault secrets  engines. I think the objectives are in a weird order, so let's do them  in reverse. First up, we'll define a secrets engine.  

5 Compare and configure Vault secrets engines

My Terraform certification guide:  https://leanpub.com/terraform-certified/ 

Data being generated at the Edge is going to increase exponentially. How  do we apply proper data governance to an immense volume of data? Do  existing approached work? How does AI factor into it?

Unpopular opinion I guess. Multicloud makes sense and you're probably already doing it.

The Terraform Active Directory provider is now available. I took it for a spin and found some interesting challenges. 

Here's the GitHub repo for Terraform Tuesdays: https://github.com/ned1313/terraform-tuesdays 

Here's the link to the Active Directory provider: https://registry.terraform.io/providers/hashicorp/ad/latest/docs 

Here's my Terraform Certification Guide: https://leanpub.com/terraform-certified/

A post I read over the weekend really got under my craw. And it made me  think about the differences between an assertive person and an asshole.

Let's talk about Objective 4 for Vault - Leases!

4 Manage Vault leases

4a Explain the   purpose of a lease ID

4b Renew leases

4c Revoke leases