Mark Tinderholt
@marktinderholt.com
The Azure Terraformer. Software Engineer / Architect @Microsoft. HashiCorp Ambassador. Cloud & DevOps Thought Leader. Author. Opinions are my own.
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Mark Tinderholt
@marktinderholt.com
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🏆 Against all odds, our Terraform Provider for Minecraft hackathon project just won 3rd place in the Hack for Approachable Gaming category!
October 2, 2025 at 11:54 PM
🏆 Against all odds, our Terraform Provider for Minecraft hackathon project just won 3rd place in the Hack for Approachable Gaming category!
🎉 It’s finally happening—I’m speaking at Microsoft Ignite 2025!
✅ Lifelong dream: check.
✅ Session is LIVE on the official site: check.
Come join me in San Francisco and let’s stop punching trees and start mining for diamonds with automation!!!! 🙌🤓🙌
ignite.microsoft.com/en-US/sessio...
✅ Lifelong dream: check.
✅ Session is LIVE on the official site: check.
Come join me in San Francisco and let’s stop punching trees and start mining for diamonds with automation!!!! 🙌🤓🙌
ignite.microsoft.com/en-US/sessio...
Learn Infrastructure-as-Code through Minecraft
In this talk we’ll learn Infrastructure-as-Code by automating the world’s most popular game: Minecraft. Using Packer, Terraform and GitHub Actions, we’ll build a server, configure Linux, provision clo...
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September 23, 2025 at 11:15 PM
🎉 It’s finally happening—I’m speaking at Microsoft Ignite 2025!
✅ Lifelong dream: check.
✅ Session is LIVE on the official site: check.
Come join me in San Francisco and let’s stop punching trees and start mining for diamonds with automation!!!! 🙌🤓🙌
ignite.microsoft.com/en-US/sessio...
✅ Lifelong dream: check.
✅ Session is LIVE on the official site: check.
Come join me in San Francisco and let’s stop punching trees and start mining for diamonds with automation!!!! 🙌🤓🙌
ignite.microsoft.com/en-US/sessio...
Hanging out in the Rooftop Garden at the Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco. Enjoying the calm before the storm. #HashiConf2025 #HashiConf
September 22, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Hanging out in the Rooftop Garden at the Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco. Enjoying the calm before the storm. #HashiConf2025 #HashiConf
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🌟 It's Hackathon Season at Microsoft! 🌟
I’m thrilled to announce my project for this year’s Global Hackathon: Terraforming Minecraft 🎮
Wanna help?
🟦 Hackathon 👉 innovationstudio.microsoft.com/hackathons/h...
🟪 Terraform 👉 registry.terraform.io/providers/ma...
⬛ GitHub 👉 github.com/markti/terra...
I’m thrilled to announce my project for this year’s Global Hackathon: Terraforming Minecraft 🎮
Wanna help?
🟦 Hackathon 👉 innovationstudio.microsoft.com/hackathons/h...
🟪 Terraform 👉 registry.terraform.io/providers/ma...
⬛ GitHub 👉 github.com/markti/terra...
Innovation Studio
Innovation Studio is an innovation platform that empowers enterprises to create, manage, and host hackathons.
innovationstudio.microsoft.com
September 15, 2025 at 8:01 PM
🌟 It's Hackathon Season at Microsoft! 🌟
I’m thrilled to announce my project for this year’s Global Hackathon: Terraforming Minecraft 🎮
Wanna help?
🟦 Hackathon 👉 innovationstudio.microsoft.com/hackathons/h...
🟪 Terraform 👉 registry.terraform.io/providers/ma...
⬛ GitHub 👉 github.com/markti/terra...
I’m thrilled to announce my project for this year’s Global Hackathon: Terraforming Minecraft 🎮
Wanna help?
🟦 Hackathon 👉 innovationstudio.microsoft.com/hackathons/h...
🟪 Terraform 👉 registry.terraform.io/providers/ma...
⬛ GitHub 👉 github.com/markti/terra...
Civil Discourse has never been more important.
September 10, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Civil Discourse has never been more important.
Had a great time speaking at #kcdc2025. Thank you so much for being such a gracious host! It was a great time!!!
Loved my audience! Fun bunch!!!
Happy Terraforming!!! Whether is AWS, Azure, or Minecraft!!! 😉🤓🙌😅🤣
Loved my audience! Fun bunch!!!
Happy Terraforming!!! Whether is AWS, Azure, or Minecraft!!! 😉🤓🙌😅🤣
August 15, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Had a great time speaking at #kcdc2025. Thank you so much for being such a gracious host! It was a great time!!!
Loved my audience! Fun bunch!!!
Happy Terraforming!!! Whether is AWS, Azure, or Minecraft!!! 😉🤓🙌😅🤣
Loved my audience! Fun bunch!!!
Happy Terraforming!!! Whether is AWS, Azure, or Minecraft!!! 😉🤓🙌😅🤣
Terraform Apply a Golden Pyramid in Minecraft!!! Then Terraform Destroy!!!! #kcdc #kcdc2025 @hashicorp.com
August 14, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Terraform Apply a Golden Pyramid in Minecraft!!! Then Terraform Destroy!!!! #kcdc #kcdc2025 @hashicorp.com
Last day in paradise… 😵
August 13, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Last day in paradise… 😵
BOOM!!!! @hashicorp.com is giving away a free copy of my book "Mastering Terraform" to the next 25 #HashiConf2025 registrations!!!!!!
Go collect your bounty and let's connect this September in San Francisco!!!!
www.hashicorp.com/en/conferenc...
Go collect your bounty and let's connect this September in San Francisco!!!!
www.hashicorp.com/en/conferenc...
HashiConf 2025 | HashiCorp's global cloud conference
Register to attend HashiConf in San Francisco, HashiCorp’s global cloud conference, to get access to product news, hands-on labs, strategy sessions, social events, and content to help you move faster ...
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August 1, 2025 at 3:53 PM
BOOM!!!! @hashicorp.com is giving away a free copy of my book "Mastering Terraform" to the next 25 #HashiConf2025 registrations!!!!!!
Go collect your bounty and let's connect this September in San Francisco!!!!
www.hashicorp.com/en/conferenc...
Go collect your bounty and let's connect this September in San Francisco!!!!
www.hashicorp.com/en/conferenc...
Reposted by Mark Tinderholt
I had a great time on Wednesday evening at the Azure Columbus meetup. Great presentation from @MarkTinderholt.com on #Azure OpenAI.
June 12, 2025 at 2:59 PM
I had a great time on Wednesday evening at the Azure Columbus meetup. Great presentation from @MarkTinderholt.com on #Azure OpenAI.
Reposted by Mark Tinderholt
I'm looking forward to attending the Azure Cbus meetup tonight with @marktinderholt.com talking about RAG, JFK, and Azure OpenAI. Join us! #Azure
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Solving the JFK Mystery with RAG and Azure OpenAI, Wed, Jun 11, 2025, 5:30 PM | Meetup
Speaker: Mark Tinderholt
Title: Solving the JFK Mystery with RAG and Azure OpenAI
What happens when you give ChatGPT access to the JFK Assassination files? In this sessio
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June 11, 2025 at 3:58 PM
I'm looking forward to attending the Azure Cbus meetup tonight with @marktinderholt.com talking about RAG, JFK, and Azure OpenAI. Join us! #Azure
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🫵 Catch me at #HashiConf2025 this Sept 24–26! 🤓 😅 🫣
Let’s talk AI, Azure, and @hashicorp.com Terraform—a few of my favorite things. 🤖☁️🛠️
Register now 👉 www.hashicorp.com/en/conferenc...
Let’s talk AI, Azure, and @hashicorp.com Terraform—a few of my favorite things. 🤖☁️🛠️
Register now 👉 www.hashicorp.com/en/conferenc...
June 5, 2025 at 9:47 PM
🫵 Catch me at #HashiConf2025 this Sept 24–26! 🤓 😅 🫣
Let’s talk AI, Azure, and @hashicorp.com Terraform—a few of my favorite things. 🤖☁️🛠️
Register now 👉 www.hashicorp.com/en/conferenc...
Let’s talk AI, Azure, and @hashicorp.com Terraform—a few of my favorite things. 🤖☁️🛠️
Register now 👉 www.hashicorp.com/en/conferenc...
🪣📋 Bucket List Item Scratched Off
I get to author my first Azure Resource Provider. 🤩
✅ Brand new resource type
✅ Azure Portal front end
✅ ARM RP backend
Can’t say much more… yet 👀 — but this is one of those deep nerd dreams come true.
Super stoked!!! 🤓🚀💙
I get to author my first Azure Resource Provider. 🤩
✅ Brand new resource type
✅ Azure Portal front end
✅ ARM RP backend
Can’t say much more… yet 👀 — but this is one of those deep nerd dreams come true.
Super stoked!!! 🤓🚀💙
June 4, 2025 at 11:18 AM
🪣📋 Bucket List Item Scratched Off
I get to author my first Azure Resource Provider. 🤩
✅ Brand new resource type
✅ Azure Portal front end
✅ ARM RP backend
Can’t say much more… yet 👀 — but this is one of those deep nerd dreams come true.
Super stoked!!! 🤓🚀💙
I get to author my first Azure Resource Provider. 🤩
✅ Brand new resource type
✅ Azure Portal front end
✅ ARM RP backend
Can’t say much more… yet 👀 — but this is one of those deep nerd dreams come true.
Super stoked!!! 🤓🚀💙
Reposted by Mark Tinderholt
Live with Restream, May 09
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May 9, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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Feeling truly honored by this feedback! Thanks Alistair!!! 🙏🎉
Teaching Terraform in a way that's simple, layered, and even a little oddly 🤪 entertaining is exactly what I aim for! 🚀🛠️
Teaching Terraform in a way that's simple, layered, and even a little oddly 🤪 entertaining is exactly what I aim for! 🚀🛠️
April 28, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Feeling truly honored by this feedback! Thanks Alistair!!! 🙏🎉
Teaching Terraform in a way that's simple, layered, and even a little oddly 🤪 entertaining is exactly what I aim for! 🚀🛠️
Teaching Terraform in a way that's simple, layered, and even a little oddly 🤪 entertaining is exactly what I aim for! 🚀🛠️
Corporate America RN...
April 24, 2025 at 4:41 AM
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Reposted by Mark Tinderholt
Reposted by Mark Tinderholt
Reposted by Mark Tinderholt
Feeling incredibly grateful for this kind review 🙏
Tom’s words mean a lot—especially coming from someone outside the dev world. My goal with Terraform 101 was to make cloud infrastructure approachable and relatable for everyone 💡✨
👉 www.udemy.com/course/terra...
Tom’s words mean a lot—especially coming from someone outside the dev world. My goal with Terraform 101 was to make cloud infrastructure approachable and relatable for everyone 💡✨
👉 www.udemy.com/course/terra...
April 18, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Feeling incredibly grateful for this kind review 🙏
Tom’s words mean a lot—especially coming from someone outside the dev world. My goal with Terraform 101 was to make cloud infrastructure approachable and relatable for everyone 💡✨
👉 www.udemy.com/course/terra...
Tom’s words mean a lot—especially coming from someone outside the dev world. My goal with Terraform 101 was to make cloud infrastructure approachable and relatable for everyone 💡✨
👉 www.udemy.com/course/terra...
April 10, 2025 at 9:28 PM