098: Infrastructure Development with Brandon Olin

<p>Learning new frameworks is always tough, but it’s incredibly important to build your foundation from the basics. Mike’s guest today is Brandon Olin, an MVP in Cloud and Datacenter Management, Site Reliability Engineer at Stack Overflow, and author of Building PowerShell Modules. Stack Overflow provides community-building and knowledge-management within its client companies through Azure technology. Brandon specializes in Infrastructure Development and is here to talk about different frameworks that he uses to do that!</p><p>In this episode, we talk about…</p><ul><li>How COVID has affected Brandon’s life and work</li><li>Diving into Brandon’s work at Stack Overflow</li><li>Breaking down the responsibilities of an SRE</li><li>Using different framework and tools build out Stack Overflow’s platform</li><li>What readers can expect to learn from Building PowerShell Modules</li><li>How GitHubAction helps in automating software workflows</li><li>The build process for a PowerShell Module</li><li>What PowerShell testing looks like with Pester and other frameworks</li><li>Testing Terraform code for those who have never done it before</li><li>Transitioning to PowerShell Core for beginners and experienced scripters</li><li>Updates on PowerShell DSC and how Brandon uses it</li><li>Best career advice that Brandon has ever gotten</li></ul><p>Resources from this episode:</p><ul><li>Brandon on <a href="https://twitter.com/devblackops">Twitter</a></li><li>Brandon's <a href="https://devblackops.io/">Blog</a></li><li>Brandon's Book: <a href="https://leanpub.com/building-powershell-modules">Building PowerShell Modules</a></li><li>Recommended Reading: <a href="https://leanpub.com/psconfbook3">The PowerShell Conference Book</a></li></ul>