Writing, Learning and Tech, with Ian Miell

Jul 14, 2022

Ian Miell is a partner at consultancy Container Solutions, and an author of books on Bash, Git, Terraform and Docker. He explains to Craig how writing - whether runbooks, blog posts, training courses, or “real” books, can help you learn and make your team more effective.

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Chatter of the week

• Hot hot hot
• Small pools and larger pools

News of the week

• Gateway API goes to Beta
  • Episode 104, with Bowei Du
  • Istio support for Gateway API
  • SMI community gets behind Gateway API
• Kyverno and Keptn move to incubation
  • Episode 119, with Alois Reitbauer
• Tau T2A Arm VMs now on Google Compute Engine
  • GKE support for Tau T2A Arm nodes
• Kubeshop acquires BotKube
• Exploiting Authentication in AWS IAM Authenticator for Kubernetes by Gafnit Amiga
  • New Vulnerabilities in Kubernetes NGINX Ingress Controller
• CNCF sponsors audit of KubeEdge
  • KubeEdge security threat model
  • Audit report
• Red Hat announces new CEO
• Google Cloud announces new Distinguished Engineer
  • Episode 185, with Clayton Coleman

Links from the interview

• Zwischenzugs
• Business Value, Soccer Canteens, Engineer Retention, and the Bricklayer Fallacy
• Zwischenzug and zugzwang in chess
• Ian’s books:
  • Learn Bash The Hard Way
  • Learn Git The Hard Way
  • Learn Terraform The Hard Way
  • All three in a bundle
  • Docker in Practice
• Tcl
• Why are enterprises so slow?
• Erlang
• Episode 164, with Daniel Walsh
• ‘AWS vs K8s’ is the new ‘Windows vs Linux’
• The Runbooks Project
• ITIL
• Consultancy:
  • Episode 183, with Steve Wade
  • Why it’s great to be a consultant
  • Container Solutions
• Finance topologies:
  • Team Topologies by Manuel Pais and Matthew Skelton
  • If You Want To Transform IT, Start With Finance
  • Conway’s Law
• Ian Miell on Twitter