Same stuff, different name
The more I take these AWS classes, the more I'm seeing it's the same stuff I learned 20+ years ago, just with a fancy name. IAM isn't scary, it's just Active Directory. S3 isn't hard, it's just object
Another day, another victory
I've been working on a rather lengthy Terraform project as of late. It was an older tutorial that I was following, so I figured there would be some updating needed and some necessary tweaking to bring it more up to speed. I was right, but not as much
Minecraft Personal Server
Someone mentioned the other day that it's real easy to set up a Minecraft private server, so I decided to look into it. Sure enough, it's just 1 docker-compose file away. I know there are a few different ones out there, but I just picked one
There is no box
At some point in our lives, we're told to "think outside the box." This has been my bread and butter since I entered the IT field all those years ago. I would crawl into the box, see what all there is to see, then get out
Demystifying DevOps Tools
Not to discredit anyone in a DevOps role or what they do. I'm finding it interesting that the tools of the trade aren't as hard as my mind lead them to be. When I hear terms like Terraform, Docker Compose, and Ansible, I imagine the black
Getting Started
First post of a fresh blog is always hard. I've been working on teaching myself the principles of Platform Engineering for a few months now. The more I learn, the more I get excited about the future and the prospects Platform Engineering presents to me.
Coming soon
This is Ramblings of a Platform Engineer, a brand new site by Jason Franklin that's just getting started. Things will be up and running here shortly, but you can subscribe in the meantime if you'd like to stay up to date and receive emails when new