Matt Gowie

Matt Gowie is an entrepreneur, cloud architect, and platform engineer based in Boulder, Colorado. He’s the CEO + CTO of Masterpoint, a consulting firm focused on helping engineering orgs get the most out of their infrastructure as code. Matt has over a dozen years of experience in software, the tech startup ecosystem, and cloud infrastructure. With a passion for all things Terraform and OpenTofu, he is an active member of the community, serving as an AWS Community Builder and core maintainer of one of the largest open source Terraform Module libraries. When he's not working, you can find Matt rock climbing around the American west, training for an ultramarathon, or traveling to some remote part of the world.

When A Client Built Their Infra Automation Pipelines... In Jenkins

Spoiler: it was harder than they thought.

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Trunk: Our Choice For Linting TF Code

Using trunk, a megalinter, lets us lint our TF code, generate doc and more.

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How to Accelerate Importing Resources and Generating HCL

You know what is a serious pain? Getting ClickOps resources to be managed with IaC.

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Prefer Module Composition Over Inheritance

IaC code can either use inheritance or composition to add functionality. Which is the better path?

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Setting Up A Greenfield Project On AWS

What kinds of things should you consider when you are standing up a greenfield project/organization on AWS?

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I love GitOps

Why is GitOps so awesome? Let me count the ways.

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Testing IaC Using Gherkin

New IaC testing options are popping up.

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Should You Move To OpenTofu?

How does the open-source alternative to Terraform stack up?

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Support Your Application Engineers

Or, a story about Bob.

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Thinking About A Shift Away From Terraform Cloud?

My spicy take: try some TACOS.

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