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Episode 2: New Year, Evolving You

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Everybody makes New Year’s resolutions. In this episode we discuss our plans and initiatives for 2022 that focus more on evolving ourselves rather than reinventing.

Jim

  • NSX-T-
  • NSX-V going End of Support 1/16/2022 https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/2149616
  • Kubernetes and Containers
  • Automation- Ansible, SaltStack, Terraform
  • Reading things longer than 240 characters at a time
  • Focus on being more impactful with my time

    • Joe 

    • Structured Plans
  • Deep Work
  • Focusing on life goals and living/enjoying the journey
  • Mental health & unplugging from tech - needing hobbies/distractions
  • Writing (both journals & a book) 
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    • Matt

    • Get back to content creation
    • Blogging
  • Presenting
  • Podcasting (hopefully!)
  • Cloud focus
    • Azure
  • AWS
  • Traditional on-prem
    • Level up existing certs

    Brian

    • Business and industry focused
  • Security industry
  • More non-IT related projects

    • Training Links:

    • https://www.udemy.com/course/vmware-nsxt-fundamentals/
  • https://www.udemy.com/course/vmware-nsx-t-30-fundamentals-part-two-security-2020-nsx
  • Learning.kasten.com - https://learning.kasten.com
  • CKA - https://training.linuxfoundation.org/training/cka-cks-exam-bundle/
  • KubeAcademy - https://kube.academy/
  • Geerling Ansible Series - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2_OBreMn7FplshFCWYlaN2uS8et9RjNG
  • https://www.udemy.com/course/terraform-hands-on-labs/
  • https://www.udemy.com/course/hashicorp-packer/
  • https://app.pluralsight.com/library/courses/terraform-getting-started-2021
  • https://app.pluralsight.com/library/courses/terraform-deep-dive
  • https://app.pluralsight.com/paths/skill/implementing-it-automation-with-salt-open
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