James Turnbull rejoins the show with Robert Blumen for a conversation mostly about Terraform, as well as a bit about Puppet. Terraform is a declarative programming tool for automating infrastructure resource creation; it targets resource providers, such as Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, Digital Ocean, and other cloud and SAAS back ends. The discussion explores the programming language used by Terraform (TF); what TF does when it runs; why a declarative language is a good fit for infrastructure resource creation; and how infrastructure operation is becoming more like programming, with a build pipeline, testing, and deployment. The episode considers TF’s internals, its similarities and differences with Puppet, and some speculation about whether declarative programming is the future of programming.
Great podcast.
Terrible audio quality.
Content and formatting in RSS episode show notes is bad. https://www.dropbox.com/s/odxfir2zs005yzp/bad.PNG?dl=0
Here is good example https://www.dropbox.com/s/5ul54v2s6n2nk59/good.PNG?dl=0
Why is the audio quality so awful? It is really hard to listen to more than a few seconds and I had to miss this podcast entirely!