Paul Stack
stack72.dev
Paul Stack
@stack72.dev
Just some person moving from Twitter
I've talked to a few of you directly but if you are a UK or Europe based Azure User Group then I want to talk with you :) Get in contact as I'd love to talk more!
November 10, 2025 at 2:32 PM
the OpenTofu to the CNCF github issue is fascinating - I thought exactly the same as @rawkode.dev - why the lateral movement... I still can't see why that's the case though. Does this mena it leaves the Linux Foundation?

github.com/cncf/sandbox...
April 23, 2025 at 10:37 PM
I started using @meetgranola.bsky.social yesterday and I am incredibly impressed! I've tried a few of these tools before and none have given me these results. So easy to get started as well! Nice work
April 22, 2025 at 2:46 PM
A person at the aspire lounge in Belfast City airport was able to keep a straight face when they told me it was £51 as a walk in cost - I have no idea how they didn’t realise that was ridiculous and laughed as I laughed :)
April 16, 2025 at 7:05 AM
So we built a fuse style Filesystem for being able to interact with @systeminit.com - we didn't add macFUSE support yet and I was impatient... so I ran the binary in a container and needed to turn on rsync because:
March 18, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Another day and another Devoxx / Voxxed rejection to a CFP - I just can’t get into that conference loop at all
March 10, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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If you are in London on April 9th, sign up for @awsuguk.bsky.social and go hear @stack72.dev talk about how we use the @awscloud.bsky.social Cloud Control API to automate the surface area of our AWS assets!

www.meetup.com/awsuguk/even...
AWS User Group UK Meetup #70, Wed, Apr 9, 2025, 6:00 PM | Meetup
We're thrilled to welcome [Ayhan Setirekli](https://www.linkedin.com/in/ayhansetirekli/), Lead Cloud/DevOps Engineer at Cognizant, who will share insights on **S3 Security*
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March 3, 2025 at 3:41 PM
So I wrote a new talk specifically about AWS and I like the feel of it:

Automating AWS Integration with Amazon Cloud Control API at System Initiative

Looking forward to giving it at AWS User Group UK on April 9th - www.meetup.com/awsuguk/even...
AWS User Group UK Meetup #70, Wed, Apr 9, 2025, 6:00 PM | Meetup
Welcome to our April meetup! We are delighted to welcome [Ayhan Setirekli](https://www.linkedin.com/in/ayhansetirekli/), Lead Cloud/DevOps Engineer at Cognizant. He will b
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February 27, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Taking the new @buildkite.bsky.social build page for a test drive! It feels way eaiser to find information :)
February 26, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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We've started doing training sessions for System Initiative. From a standing start to a full application running on AWS, with ECS, best practice networking, load balancing, manual failover to an EC2 instance, and a tutorial on how to build your own custom templates from scratch: less than 4 hours.
February 21, 2025 at 9:58 PM
So Trump signing executive orders right now is like that character in Harry Potter who signs decrees… does that make Elon the person who nails the orders to the wall?
February 7, 2025 at 7:56 AM
February 2, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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Are you coming to @cfgmgmtcamp.bsky.social ? I am. My talk Monday afternoon is going to be the deepest, most technical talk I’ve given in years. Come learn a new theory of automation with me. It’ll be dope, I promise. Then on Wednesday, come to our workshop and learn System Initiative!
February 1, 2025 at 5:23 AM
So i've been testing a new editor integration for @systeminit.com and I had to use @vscode.dev to do it because their remote development experience is so good! The lack of reactivity from @zed.dev was a bit painful with no way to manually force a refresh...
January 31, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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We are so excited for the latest Opportunity we started - Editor Integration!! We are building a FUSE based file system to allow our users to mount their workspace for authoring assets from their local IDE!!

Read more about it on our blog - www.systeminit.com/blog/opportu...
System Initiative
www.systeminit.com
January 22, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Just submitted an application for the AWS Community Builders program. I deal with aws assets and integrations every day so I thought I’d give this a go :) Let’s see how it turns out
January 19, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Each time I log into the @scaleway.bsky.social console, I am always pleasantly surprised at how much they are building! Can' wait to start talking about offering @systeminit.com integration for it!
January 16, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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Do you come to the Configuration Management Camp in few weeks? You can get your branded gears right now:
shop.cfgmgmtcamp.org

Shop is open until Wednesday, you pay now and get your stuff at the event.
January 13, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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Another day, another blog post about a new opportunity we started just before the holiday break!

This time, the ability to trigger System Initiative using a GitHub Action (or a CURL request!). Come build out your CD pipelines!!

www.systeminit.com/blog/opportu...
System Initiative
www.systeminit.com
January 8, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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Schedule for @cfgmgmtcamp.bsky.social is out: cfgmgmtcamp.org/ghent2025/sc... 🎉
Thanks @krisbuytaert.bsky.social & Toshaan!

Amazing line-up and looking forward meeting friends again in Ghent! I'll also be talking about scaling & compliance with Karpenter this year!

Who's coming? 🍻 🧇 #cfgmgmtcamp
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January 7, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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We started work before the holiday period on a new set of fine-grained access controls to better server enterprise teams!

You can read more about it on our new blog post that introduces the opportunity - www.systeminit.com/blog/opportu...
System Initiative
www.systeminit.com
January 7, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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Happy new year to you all! We are starting the year building on the features we released in December!

We are working on "Visual Templates" - a way to create templates from a diagram! Come read about it in the blog post www.systeminit.com/blog/opportu...
System Initiative
www.systeminit.com
January 6, 2025 at 2:06 PM
So this year @cfgmgmtcamp.bsky.social have a shop where you can buy items and pick them up at the conference!! Check it out - shop.cfgmgmtcamp.org

Looking forward to picking up my hoodie!
Config Management Camp 2025 SWAG store
A SWAG store for Config Management Camp 2025, support our conference!
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December 23, 2024 at 11:20 AM
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We've been experimenting in the Gen AI space recently and the feature is starting to take shape :) More on this soon! Check out the video below!

You can take a well documented AWS endpoint and automatically generate a System Initiative schema for it! Lots more to do here but it's trending well...
December 17, 2024 at 12:18 AM