The IaC Podcast

In this episode with Adam Jacob, we discuss Adam’s role in the history of the DevOps movement, from creating Chef to becoming CEO of Systems Initiative. You’ll learn about configuration management frameworks vs infrastructure as code, how DevOps workflows have evolved over time, and what’s next for the industry. Tune-in today! Adam Jacob is an engineering and product innovator, with decades of exp...

In our tenth episode with Derek Morgan, DevOps Course Creator and founder of morethancertified.com , we discuss how IaC management has shifted over the years, which technologies and tools are the best for different use cases, and the current state of IaC solutions and providers. Listen now! After working for years in traditional infrastructure management, consulting, and Devrel, Derek Morgan is no...

In our ninth episode, we chat with Anton Babenko, AWS Community Hero and Terraform Influencer, to take a deep dive into AWS, modules, and contributing to the open-source community. Tune-in now! Anton is an AWS Community Hero and helps companies around the globe build solutions using AWS and specializes in infrastructure-as-code, DevOps, and reusable infrastructure components. He spends much of his...

In our eighth episode, we sit down with by Ilia Lazebnik, Infra Architect at Placer.ai , to discuss his extensive open source contributions including over 2600 commits to the Terraform AWS Provider over the past four years. We'll also talk about providers in general, how Ilia collaborates with other open source communities, and much more. Tune-in today! Ilia is a Lead Engineer with more than 10 ye...

In episode 7, we are joined by Anders Eknert, Developer Relations Lead at Styra, to take a deep dive into the Open Policy Agent (OPA) project. You'll learn about everything from the basics of Policy as Code, to how OPA became one of the flagship projects of CNCF. We'll also discuss how recent events like the announcement of Hashicorp's BSL license are shifting IaC's open source ecosystem, and how...

In episode 6, we sit down with Pepe Amengual, Principal at Slalom Build, and Dylan Page, Principal Infrastructure Engineer at Autodesk, to talk about the open-source tool Atlantis. We discuss building Atlantis’ open-source community of contributors and maintainers, newly-implemented improvements to the project, and more. Tune-in today! PePe Amengual is a 10x unicorn who fights crimes against Terra...

In episode 5, we chat with Elad Ben-Israel, Creator of AWS CDK and Co-Founder/CEO at Monada, to talk about how and why CDK was created, how Elad built a high-adoption community surrounding the CDK project, and what's next for Elad. Tune-in today! Elad Ben-Israel is the creator of the AWS CDK, CDK8s, JSII and Projen. After an amazing journey, Elad has recently left the comforts of AWS to start a ne...

In this episode, we sit down with Andrew Brown, an AWS Community Hero and GCP Champion Innovator, to talk about Terraform and IaC tools. During the episode, we discuss the differences between popular IaC tools and which infrastructure management use cases (like drift, state management, and more) are best suited for them. Tune-in now to learn more! Andrew Brown is known for his multiple free cloud...

For our latest episode, we sit down with Amir Jerbi who is currently the Co-Founder and CTO of Aqua Security, a platform that provides scalable security for the complete development-to-deployment lifecycle of containerized applications. Amir brings decades of expertise on containers, Kubernetes, cloud security, enterprise software, software development and DevOps to the conversation. Amir formerly...

On this episode of The Iac Podcast, we chat with Elliot Graebert, Director of Engineering, Infrastructure at Skydio—a cloud platform that supports advanced autonomous drones and enables organizations to fly drones directly from their browser. Elliot's initial background was in Software Engineering, and over the past 7 years, he started Palantir's first DevOps team as well as leading 4 internal inf...

In episode one of The IaC Podcast, we sit down with Hassan Khajeh-Hosseini, Co-founder and CEO of Infracost.io —a tool that shows engineering teams how their code changes affect Cloud cost estimates for Terraform in pull requests. Hassan has over 20 years of cloud engineering and product management experience. We talk with Hassan about shifting infrastructure cost left, how engineers can optimize...