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The Human Edge in Cloud Infrastructure | Ned Bellavance

From scripting VMware deployments on a three-person IT team to building reusable Terraform libraries across cloud clients, Ned traces how infrastructure as code evolved and why understanding what's happening underneath the tools has never mattered more.

Beginner
53m

Created by Josh Burkhead

Last Updated Jun 09, 2026

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The Human Edge in Cloud Infrastructure | Ned Bellavance

From scripting VMware deployments on a three-person IT team to building reusable Terraform libraries across cloud clients, Ned traces how infrastructure as code evolved and why understanding what's happening underneath the tools has never mattered more.

Beginner
53m

Created by Josh Burkhead

Last Updated Jun 09, 2026

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In this episode of The Pluralsight Podcast, Ned Bellavance — infrastructure engineer, Pluralsight author, and host of the Day 2 DevOps podcast — argues that the answer isn't about the tools you know. It's about the judgment, institutional knowledge, and operational experience that no model can replicate. From scripting VMware deployments on a three-person IT team to building reusable Terraform libraries across cloud clients, Ned traces how infrastructure as code evolved and why understanding what's happening underneath the tools has never mattered more.

The Human Edge in Cloud Infrastructure | Ned Bellavance
Beginner
53m
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Josh Burkhead is a Senior Podcast Producer and Host at Pluralsight, where he leads The Pluralsight Podcast — a weekly conversation series built for L&D and technology leaders navigating the fast-moving world of AI, cybersecurity, cloud, and workforce development. With over two decades in content production, Josh brings a practitioner's curiosity to every episode. His approach is conversational and assumption-challenging — less interested in surface-level takes than in the decisions, tradeoffs, and hard-won lessons that leaders actually use. Whether he's pressing a PCI security standards architect on why policies fail in the real world or asking an AI expert what responsible machine learning actually looks like inside an enterprise, Josh treats every conversation as an opportunity to learn out loud alongside his audience.

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