Talks on jen20.dev

CfgMgmtCamp 2024 Slides

hello@jen20.com (James Nugent) — Thu, 06 Feb 2025 18:00:00 +0100

During FOSDEM of 2024, mere days before the kick-off of CfgMgmtCamp 2024 in Ghent, Apple released a language named Pkl as Apache 2.0 open source.

As a heavy user of Pkl’s Apple-internal progenitor for four years at that point, I was well placed to give the first ever public talk about it, by the gracious request of the organizers - and there was no audience more suited than CfgMgmtCamp for an introduction to such a release!

CfgMgmtCamp 2020 - Slides

hello@jen20.com (James Nugent) — Mon, 03 Feb 2020 15:28:25 +0100

At CfgMgmtCamp 2020, I gave a talk entitled “Terraform Without The Mess”, in which we looked at how the history of features in Terraform affect the way we structure and write our Terraform configuration today, and make opinionated recommendations about how to structure modern Terraform code in a way which makes changes simple, predictable and safe.

HashiConf EU 2019 - CloudInit: The Good Parts

hello@jen20.com (James Nugent) — Sat, 17 Aug 2019 22:00:00 +0000

At the 2019 edition of HashiConf EU in Amsterdam, I gave a talk entitled “CloudInit: The Good Parts” - a surprisingly long talk given the subject matter! I’ve had a number of requests for the slide deck, which I’m posting here along with the video from the event.

HashiDays Amsterdam 2018 - systemd: The Good Parts

hello@jen20.com (James Nugent) — Wed, 11 Jul 2018 12:50:55 +0000

At HashiDays Amsterdam 2018, I gave a talk entitled “systemd: The Good Parts”, in which I tried to focus on how to use systemd, aimed at practitioners who are committed to a Linux distribution which uses the controversial init system.