Episode 2: New Year, Evolving You

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) 
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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