Mark Tinderholt

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Great quote from #hashiconf!!! 😅🤣

🎉 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...

Hanging out in the Rooftop Garden at the Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco. Enjoying the calm before the storm. #HashiConf2025 #HashiConf

🌟 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...

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!!! 😉🤓🙌😅🤣

Terraform Apply a Golden Pyramid in Minecraft!!! Then Terraform Destroy!!!! #kcdc #kcdc2025 @hashicorp.com

I opened a Minecraft server here kcdc.qonq.io #kcdc2025 #kcdc

Just landed in Kansas City for #kcdc !!!!!!

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...

I had a great time on Wednesday evening at the Azure Columbus meetup. Great presentation from @MarkTinderholt.com on #Azure OpenAI.

I'm looking forward to attending the Azure Cbus meetup tonight with @marktinderholt.com talking about RAG, JFK, and Azure OpenAI. Join us! #Azure www.meetup.com/central-ohi...

🫵 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...

🪣📋 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!!! 🤓🚀💙

Going live in CBus for #AzureGlobal2025 www.youtube.com/live/ItUlKQr...

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! 🚀🛠️

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LFG!!!!!!!

Hot takes welcome 🌶️🌶️🌶️ www.linkedin.com/posts/azure-...

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...

I did a thing!!! 🤓 Thanks @mvpaward.bsky.social!!! 🙌

🚨🦸‍♂️ NOW AVAILABLE! 🛒✨ MARK TINDERHOLT: THE AZURE TERRAFORMER™ ☁️💥🔧 🛠️ Auto Approve Hammer 🔫 GUID Generator Ray Gun 🌟 Bash Stars — Break prod in style Because IaC needs heroes too. 💻⚡ #DevOps #Terraform #Azure

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Had a great time on The IaC Podcast with Ohad—chatting about Azure + Infrastructure as Code: past, present, and future! Give it a listen! #Azure #IaC #Terraform #DevOps youtu.be/cJwuRSNAwEg?...

Udemy vs. Udemy For Business folks be like... 💀

Oh, this is going to be super useful when enabling #AWS services across multiple regions with #Terraform! Nice one @hashicorp.com 🚀 github.com/hashicorp/te...

New post on the hidden challenges of managing RBAC on Azure with IaC 🛠️🔐 Why the azuread provider matters, and why GUID soup isn’t it 🥣😅 Let’s talk Entra ID, least privilege, and better patterns. Check it out 👇 medium.marktinderholt.com/the-underrat...

I now have all 5 official Microsoft 50th anniversary pins and two patches. So... am I meeting the minimum required pieces of flair, or should I be "expressing myself" a little more? 😏 #Microsoft50 #NerdFlair

Summary of my experience publishing my first public NuGet package for @bsky.app .NET! #opensource #dotnet medium.marktinderholt.com/from-idea-to...

Not sure how I ended up on this group chat... but thanks........😅?!? Seriously though, THRILLED to be selected as a @hashicorp.com Ambassador again in 2025. 🎉 🚀 Now, what should I order for lunch.... 🥑🍳😋

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🧠 More content 🛠️ More hands-on 🔥 Same highest-rated goodness. 🤑 Same low price of $19.99!!! If you're already enrolled, it's yours for free. If not... what are you waiting for? www.udemy.com/course/terra...

Boost your Azure automation skills! Join @marktinderholt.com to learn the top 5 mistakes to avoid and discover a free tool to simplify your workflow. Join us to build a solid foundation for long-term success. #Azure #Automation #Terraform Wed, March 26 730pm Central: youtube.com/live/2pcRSKK...

🚀 Azure Client Tools: Which One is Your Favorite? Azure gives you too many ways to do the same thing—so which tool should you use? 🤔 🎥 Watch: youtu.be/iso97E3Skyo 📖 Read: medium.com/azure-terraf...

🚀 What number are you most excited about? 4.9? ⭐️ (Nice, but no.) 69? 😏 (Heh, but no.) 94.99? 💰 (Nope, too high!) The real magic number is... 14.99! 🎉 For a limited time, grab my Udemy course "Terraform 101: [Azure Edition]" for just $14.99! 👉 Don’t miss out — bit.ly/3DpfFG1