Learning Terraform
IaC is such a big topic. It's overwhelming, coming to it new, as I am. Absolutely loving it, and just the sheer creativity I'm seeing in every aspect, behind every new search. But it does make it tough to draw a line: will this hour, stretching out before me, get me closer to Terraform Associate? (Oh, I postponed the exam to next week, in the end.) For example, I'm new to AWS as well, and was wondering whether I should plough on with the course examples that were creating S3 buckets, which aren't part of their free tier — although very reasonably priced, it seems — or switch tracks to, maybe, learning Terraform's vSphere provider and deploying some stuff in our virtual lab environment at work.
Thing is, that's using AppGate to connect to ESXi, which is also new to me. It'd be beneficial, I'm sure, to flesh out my Terraform experience beyond the one provider, but would the time spent learning VMWare specific stuff offset that, when I'm looking at a deadline of early next week? Tough call.
It's a great position to be in, though. Kev talked about how his career has gone, and how much he enjoys where he is now. This job really fell in my lap, so precious little wisdom to pass on there, but goodness gracious am I a happy man these days.
End of Day 6
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