Piers Karsenbarg
@piers.dev
Architecting Solutions at Pulumi. Also husband, dogfather and dad to a small human. He/Him. https://links.piers.dev
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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.
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.
aws-news.com
May 1, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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.
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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.
Excited to share #cloud and #platformengineering stories! Join us for expert sessions, live demos, IaC, and #CloudSecurity lessons.
April 16, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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.
Excited to share #cloud and #platformengineering stories! Join us for expert sessions, live demos, IaC, and #CloudSecurity lessons.
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🚀 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-...
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-...
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.
blog.localstack.cloud
April 10, 2025 at 1:15 PM
🚀 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-...
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-...
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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 💥
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 💥
April 9, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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 💥
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 💥
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We can upload 3 minute videos now.
YOU KNOW THE RULE
YOU KNOW THE RULE
March 10, 2025 at 7:52 PM
We can upload 3 minute videos now.
YOU KNOW THE RULE
YOU KNOW THE RULE
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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
March 12, 2025 at 3:17 AM
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 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:
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:
March 8, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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:
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:
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if you replaced these guys' inboxes with a woman sportswriter's, they'd commit suicide by lunchtime
“Frightened for the safety of their families.”
America, 2025.
America, 2025.
March 8, 2025 at 4:14 PM
if you replaced these guys' inboxes with a woman sportswriter's, they'd commit suicide by lunchtime
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✨ HIRE ME ✨
I'm a Full Stack software engineer with 5+ years of experience, looking for my next opportunity. My personal values include psychological safety, D&I, and direct communication.
Please share for reach <3
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I'm a Full Stack software engineer with 5+ years of experience, looking for my next opportunity. My personal values include psychological safety, D&I, and direct communication.
Please share for reach <3
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
March 3, 2025 at 5:53 PM
✨ HIRE ME ✨
I'm a Full Stack software engineer with 5+ years of experience, looking for my next opportunity. My personal values include psychological safety, D&I, and direct communication.
Please share for reach <3
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
I'm a Full Stack software engineer with 5+ years of experience, looking for my next opportunity. My personal values include psychological safety, D&I, and direct communication.
Please share for reach <3
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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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
March 1, 2025 at 8:03 AM
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
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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.
February 28, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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.
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literally every time I talk to friends
March 1, 2025 at 6:15 AM
literally every time I talk to friends
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Woke White House bans AP from event over deadnaming the Gulf of Mexico.
www.newsweek.com/reporter-bar...
www.newsweek.com/reporter-bar...
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.
www.newsweek.com
February 11, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Woke White House bans AP from event over deadnaming the Gulf of Mexico.
www.newsweek.com/reporter-bar...
www.newsweek.com/reporter-bar...
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Excited to have @piers.dev walking us through the @pulumi.com Kubernetes Operator at @kubernetes.london
February 11, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Excited to have @piers.dev walking us through the @pulumi.com Kubernetes Operator at @kubernetes.london
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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
IBM Federal Technology Services dudes flying in some grumpy retiree on a helicopter to tell him he voided the warranty by touching the thing
February 4, 2025 at 7:42 AM
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
IBM Federal Technology Services dudes flying in some grumpy retiree on a helicopter to tell him he voided the warranty by touching the thing
I was raised on these streets
February 2, 2025 at 9:06 AM
I was raised on these streets
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Gonna be a big week for this
January 14, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Gonna be a big week for this
I will admit I never thought I’d see this as a list I’d be added to
January 13, 2025 at 1:47 PM
I will admit I never thought I’d see this as a list I’d be added to
Are GitHub merge queues for organisations only or are they available for individuals as well?
January 5, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Are GitHub merge queues for organisations only or are they available for individuals as well?
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Watching ‘white America first’ maga vs ‘rich America first’ maga
December 28, 2024 at 2:14 AM
Watching ‘white America first’ maga vs ‘rich America first’ maga
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I sleep with a bat under my bed in case someone breaks in and wants to learn about echolocation
December 25, 2024 at 6:36 AM
I sleep with a bat under my bed in case someone breaks in and wants to learn about echolocation
Ignoring the questionable relationships in Love Actually, I have questions about Daniel and Sam:
Where is Sam’s biological father?
We can assume that given we a) he is never mentioned or seen on screen and b) doesn’t attend the Christmas concert that he’s probably not in Sam’s life
Where is Sam’s biological father?
We can assume that given we a) he is never mentioned or seen on screen and b) doesn’t attend the Christmas concert that he’s probably not in Sam’s life
December 25, 2024 at 7:40 AM
Ignoring the questionable relationships in Love Actually, I have questions about Daniel and Sam:
Where is Sam’s biological father?
We can assume that given we a) he is never mentioned or seen on screen and b) doesn’t attend the Christmas concert that he’s probably not in Sam’s life
Where is Sam’s biological father?
We can assume that given we a) he is never mentioned or seen on screen and b) doesn’t attend the Christmas concert that he’s probably not in Sam’s life
Klaus is definitely one of the under appreciated Christmas movies.
December 24, 2024 at 10:29 AM
Klaus is definitely one of the under appreciated Christmas movies.