This is the presentation I gave at SCaLE 22x about choosing to fully embrace Gateway API for both north/south traffic and east/west traffic when doing a green field deployment of Kubernetes at work.
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Nix for macOS… and NixOS… in one flake
Presented as a Lightning Talk during Planet Nix 2025
This is the lightning talk I gave at Planet Nix 2025 on a whim since they were looking for more speakers. It touches on the various things I currently mange with Nix on my macOS laptop and some of the extra things I manage on NixOS machines.
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2019 Puppetize PDX Birds of a Feather
I organized and lead the Birds of a Feather session at Puppet’s annual conference in 2019. This included soliciting topics from our community, helping curate the submissions, and acting as MC during the event. Below is the session description from the event website:
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Tintri Customer Review
Presented at the 2017 Tintri Customer Advisory Board
This is the presentation I gave at the 2017 Tintri Customer Advisory
Board meeting in Sanoma, CA. It covers the following topics:
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Windows Configuration Management with Puppet
Presented at ConfigMgmtCamp PDX 2017
Abstract: Do you ever find that GPO’s are not enough to get things setup the way you would like? Tried DSC but found that it too doesn’t quite do what you need? Tired of using scripts to fill this gap? Maybe you’ve heard all the buzz over the last several...
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