Pre-Cache Terraform Provider Plugins

Pre-caching terraform providers in your CICD pipeline images is awesome but hardly anyone does it. I’ve created a project that makes this task easier than ever.

Stand Out in Your Tech Interview

2025-03-17 6 min read Blog Career Zachary Loeber

In the last several years I’ve had the great privilege of being the final technical interviewer for a large number of candidates. This article is an inside scoop on how I perform these interviews with tips on how you can shine as a candidate.

Understanding Organizational Secrets

2025-03-03 7 min read Security Blog Zachary Loeber

Let’s face it, IT often struggles with secrets management. From API keys that need to be registered/rotated, certificates that need to be requested/renewed, LDAP/AD credentials that need to be maintained, password complexity requirements to be enforced, and more. It can be cognitively difficult to manage the various secrets for a single project let alone an entire organization. This discussion will help define the credential categories and the tools used to manage them.

2021 - IT Industry Predictions

2020-12-15 9 min read Devops Kubernetes Zachary Loeber

Wild speculations on hot trends to follow in information technology for 2021 and beyond.

The Declarative Mindset

2020-07-11 10 min read Devops Zachary Loeber

I’m going to wax poetic on the virtues of declarative thinking within the IT industry. Along the way we will go over some definitions and introduce the pseudo-declarative manifest and how it can add value to a project.

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