Episode 2: New Year, Evolving You

vPirate Radio

Everybody makes New Year’s resolutions. In this episode we discuss our plans and initiatives for 2022 that focus more on evolving ourselves rather than reinventing.

Jim

• NSX-T-
• NSX-V going End of Support 1/16/2022 https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/2149616
• Kubernetes and Containers
• Automation- Ansible, SaltStack, Terraform
• Reading things longer than 240 characters at a time
• Focus on being more impactful with my time

Joe

• Structured Plans
• Deep Work
• Focusing on life goals and living/enjoying the journey
• Mental health & unplugging from tech - needing hobbies/distractions
• Writing (both journals & a book)

Matt

• Get back to content creation
  • Blogging
  • Presenting
  • Podcasting (hopefully!)
• Cloud focus
  • Azure
  • AWS
• Traditional on-prem
  • Level up existing certs

Brian

• Business and industry focused
• Security industry
• More non-IT related projects

Training Links:

• https://www.udemy.com/course/vmware-nsxt-fundamentals/
• https://www.udemy.com/course/vmware-nsx-t-30-fundamentals-part-two-security-2020-nsx
• Learning.kasten.com - https://learning.kasten.com
• CKA - https://training.linuxfoundation.org/training/cka-cks-exam-bundle/
• KubeAcademy - https://kube.academy/
• Geerling Ansible Series - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2_OBreMn7FplshFCWYlaN2uS8et9RjNG
• https://www.udemy.com/course/terraform-hands-on-labs/
• https://www.udemy.com/course/hashicorp-packer/
• https://app.pluralsight.com/library/courses/terraform-getting-started-2021
• https://app.pluralsight.com/library/courses/terraform-deep-dive
• https://app.pluralsight.com/paths/skill/implementing-it-automation-with-salt-open