Piers Karsenbarg

That’s a film I’d watch

How to strengthen Cloud Security with Pulumi ESC and AWS Secrets Manager Pulumi ESC provides a centralized solution for managing secrets across multiple environments, helping organizations reduce security risks, simplify credential rotation, and maintain consistent access controls.

Pulumi ESC provides a centralized solution for managing secrets across multiple environments, helping organizations reduce security risks, simplify credential rotation, and maintain consistent access controls.

Zachary Cook bio card for speaking about Pulumi and Platform Engineering at PulumiUP 2025. Tuesday, May 6th, 9AM ET / 4PM PT / 2 PM (UTC +1)

I'm speaking at #PulumiUP 2025! 🚀Join us for a virtual event packed with real-world platform engineering / #DevOps stories, expert discussions, and technical demos.

Excited to share #cloud and #platformengineering stories! Join us for expert sessions, live demos, IaC, and #CloudSecurity lessons.

Works great as a CV builder? People think they need it to be “web scale” or “cloud agnostic”?

Admittedly the second is partially correct in that it’s more cloud agnostic than managed services.

What’s the difference between being over for business and working remotely whilst you’re there?

Integration testing for Pulumi programs with LocalStack & Automation API Learn how to use LocalStack and Pulumi's Automation API to run integration tests for your cloud infrastructure on your local machine.

🚀 You can run Pulumi Automation API tests locally using LocalStack!

This allows you to test your Pulumi IaC programs locally, with which you can:

✅ Get instant dev feedback
✅ Remove flaky integration tests
✅ Avoid deploying resources to AWS

Learn how: blog.localstack.cloud/integration-...

Pulumi's Model Context Protocol (MCP) server is out!

Spin up cloud infra straight from any LLM-based MCP client, including Claude, VS Code, Cursor, Windsurf, and more 🛠

In this video, we create IaC in Python and spin up a Kubernetes cluster in AWS with 1-sentence prompt 💥

The username of the poster threw me for a second. I was trying to work out what’s a famous three minute long doctor who scene before actually realising what was happening

We can upload 3 minute videos now.

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less than five hundred years ago even the most powerful monarch was at the mercy of childhood disease and weather. now we can do literal concrete things about both and are in fact actively choosing to die of childhood disease and weather

I wonder how much of that is the useful stuff in powershell has been around for a while and is well before any cut off date for the AI models

What do folks here think? I suspect that the mindset on bluesky is a bit different from X (report for reach please)

Even if this is a joke, this is the reason I’ve avoided using an AI tool in my IDE or for coding in general. I’m worried I’m not going to learn new things

I posted this on the other place and I’m interested in seeing the responses to the folks here for comparison:

In response to someone saying that that they’re too lazy to look stuff up and they’re getting to the point where they’re using Cursor and not even reading the responses, I wrote:

if you replaced these guys' inboxes with a woman sportswriter's, they'd commit suicide by lunchtime

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Will orbstack.dev work for you? Does DIND but not sure what your container bug is tbh

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A diagram labelled pride versioning A version number of 2.7.123 is shown A line pointing to the 2 describes it as “proud version, bump when you are proud of the release” A line pointing to the 7 calls it “default version. Just normal/okay releases” A line pointing to the 123 calls it the “shame versions. bump when fixing things too embarrassing to admit”

It’s not wrong

american masculinity is so amazing. caring about clothes as a man apparently makes you "gay" but our position on geopolitics totally depends on whether you wear a suit

Check go mods as well if you use that kind of thing - even if you don’t write go but use “go install” for some software

If you are not fully aware of the downsides of using Kubernetes and accept them as necessary due to your organization's scale, then you do not need Kubernetes and should instead use a managed container service.

I think we could all learn something here

three panel cartoon by @emilyscartoons.bsky.social … in the first panel one person says "let's not talk about politics any more, I can't bear it" and the other person replies "same." in the second panel, they say nothing. in the third panel, the first person yells "THE THING IS THOUGH" and the second person yells back "THOSE FUCKING IDIOTS"

literally every time I talk to friends

Simple answer is that it supports (nearly) all the different API versions available in the ARM API spec. That’s a lot of endpoints

Generally very large organisations who have slowly moved into the cloud

Clickops is definitely not dead. I talk to at least one or two companies a week that are only just starting to investigate IaC and are months off starting to implement it

Reporter barred from Oval Office over 'Gulf of America' clash, outlet says On January 23, the Associated Press announced that it would continue to refer to the Gulf of Mexico by its original name.

Woke White House bans AP from event over deadnaming the Gulf of Mexico.

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Excited to have @piers.dev walking us through the @pulumi.com Kubernetes Operator at @kubernetes.london

Would love to dive into what you mean by “confusing” and how we can make adjustments to limit the confusion. Can you give some examples?

Can't wait for a 25-year-old to bring down the entire Treasury IPAC system because he tried to export some data with a COBOL routine he cooked up on ChatGPT

IBM Federal Technology Services dudes flying in some grumpy retiree on a helicopter to tell him he voided the warranty by touching the thing