2024

2024 was a fun and interesting year in many ways. I think I have grown from someone who had this inherent fear of being judged to someone who is able to contribute to things he loves - whether it is contributing to a local tight-knit community of HashiCorp User group or going up on stage to present to the CTO of HashiCorp on a boat or talking about my experience sitting through an exam. I do owe most of the credit to some of my colleagues and a few fellow HUG members who made me feel safe among them. As I wrap up the year, I realize that most of my contributions or work outside of my 8-5 is on the HashiCorp space working on things I love and use daily.

I have absolutely loved being able to evangelise AWS CloudControl provider over the course of the year. I have been trying to keep up with the Weekly dose of AWSCC releases and a huge thanks to the HashiCorp AWS provider engineering team for all the work around the provider maintenance.

• HUG Meetups & presentations:

  • Columbus HUG , Co-organizing with Mark from Oct'2024
  • Deploy your AI and Non AI workloads with AWS CloudControl Provider
  • HCP Terraform, S3 state management updates ,Run tasks with Amazon Bedrock November 2024
  • AWSCC Provider : Tracking the TreadMill problem

• Youtube: This was definitely an attempt to see if I can find another place to share any ideas of mine around DevOps and IaC. I know most of it is still focused on Terraform and some of the recent updates along with AWSCC provider.

• Blog

  • Cross posted at https://manuchandrasekhar.com/posts.
  • Medium : I have recently started posting some of my articles into Medium as another place for my thoughts.

• Conferences:

  • HashiConf 2024 : Terraform and GitHub action patterns for public/private infrastructure : Boston
  • Intro to DevOps conference, Baking Security & compliance into automation :Columbus Ohio

• Immersion days / Community enablement events

  • Terraform Immersion day
  • HCP Terraform : DevOpsify Kubernetes deployments
  • Terraform Stacks: Deep dive

• AWS Cloud Control provider

  • 150+ PRs
  • Triaging issues for the provider ( 30+) : Assigned / Created
  • Being to test changes in the CloudFormation schema of AWS services ( some times earlier !!!) and verify an early build of the AWSCC provider has been amazing experience.

• Product feedback :

  • I had the opportunity to play around with a few of the beta features and provide feedback based on my exposure to that product and how I would use them. Stacks was one which I am really invested in with the orchestration and deployment mechanisms which allows you to configure Infrastructure as Code as Code. No, that was not a typo :) . TF migrate CLI and the Sentienl policy library updates were a couple others alongside Vault Radar that I am hoping to have some additional features to test against.

• AWS Blogs :

  • AWS Cloud Control Provider GA
  • Sentinel CIS benchmark pre-written policies

• Public AWS workshops

  • Manage Cloud resources with Terraform
  • Amazon Q Developer + Terraform

• Terraform modules or sample use cases

  • EKS Fargate based Terraform cloud agents
  • Amazon Bedrock AWSCC module
  • Terraform Plan analyzer Amazon Bedrock
  • S3 Cross region replication with Stacks
  • Terraform based Bedrock custom model deployment

Here is to a wonderful 2025 !!!!