Zachary Loeber's Blog

Just another tool making, complexity eating, infrastructure and workload automating, DevOps soldier.

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.

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.