enablement-interview

Repo to facilitate the presentation and technical exercise for the Enablement Engineer position

HashiCorp Enablement Engineer Technical Exercise

Assignment 1 - Slide Presentation

1. Fork this repo

2. Create a new branch to work on.

3. Choose a topic below or create your own:

   • Vault: Best Practices for Namespaces - when to configure root authentication or child namespaces
   • Vault: How to Manage Child Namespaces and Permissions
   • Vault: Dynamic Credentials with AWS Provider
   • Packer and Terraform Integration
   • Consul: Service Catalog - what problem does it solve and how is it used?
   • Consul: Service Mesh - what problem does it solve? How is service mesh related to service catalog related?
   • Nomad: Important considerations to make when adapting an application for orchestration
   • Nomad: Difference between scalability and elasticity?

Bonus points for a presentation that covers two HashiCorp products working together.

4. We have provided an index.html, and 3 markdown files (title.md, slide1.md, slide2.md.) These contain some examples of markdown for classes, images, presenter notes, etc. Create a presentation with 3-7 slides for the topic you chose above. Please make you have at least one example of:

   • Presenter notes
   • Images
   • Code blocks

5. Commit your updates to the branch you created in Step 2

Assignment 2 - Script

Create a bash script setup.sh that:

• Sets an environment variable with your github username in /root/.bash_profile
• Writes the following code to a file called config.hcl

cluster_addr  = "https://<HOSTNAME>:8201"
api_addr      = "https://<HOSTNAME>:8200"
disable_mlock = true

• Replaces <HOSTNAME> value vault-server.hashicorp.com in config.hcl

Additional Information

Markdown

The presentation is using remarkjs and the story template for display. Story's framework provides predefined layouts for a simple modular way to create custom presentations.

Here are slide classes to choose from for different layouts:

You can review this index.md for more markdown examples that are available for use.

Local Presenting

You should be able to present the slides by spinning up a local webserver. There are several options, a few are listed below.

Live Server in VSCode
Download the plugin It is a supported VSC plugin so you can run it in VSC directly.

LiveReload

pip3 install livereload or brew install livereload

Run livereload . in the repository directory. Navigate to the URL provided in the output

Ex:

~/enablement-interview: livereload .
[I 230221 20:52:57 server:335] Serving on http://127.0.0.1:35729

Simple HTTP Server
From the command line, navigate to the repository directory and run

python3 -m http.server 9000

Navigate to localhost:9000

Shortcut Keys

The following Chrome commands may come in handy:

• SHIFT + C to make a copy of the window
• SHIFT + P to bring up the 'presenter' view if you would like to have notes