What Good Looks Like – Leading, Failing & Evolving - Chris Wahl

In this episode, Johan and Jeffrey sit down with industry legend and long-time community contributor Chris Wahl to explore a career journey that spans from VI admin to independent content creator and platform engineer. Chris shares his unique take on working symbiotically with developers, learning from failures (including a UCS upgrade gone nuclear), and the importance of showing what good looks like rather than just telling.⏱️ Highlights:00:37 – Meet Chris Wahl: Blogger, technologist, gamer, legend03:00 – The IKEA Wheel and unwinding with brutal dungeon games05:00 – Rapid fire: Terraform, PowerShell, Kubernetes vs vSphere08:30 – Career evolution: From vSphere to Kubernetes and AWS12:30 – Drinking from the firehose: Adapting to cloud-native18:00 – Developers vs IT: Building a real Dev+Platform culture22:00 – When Shit Hit the Fan: How a UCS upgrade took down a 5,000-person org30:00 – Chris’s Life Lesson: “Don’t tell people what good looks like—show them.”👤 Guest:Chris Wahl🌐 https://wahlnetwork.com🔗 LinkedIn🎮 Bonus: Discover which brutal RPG Chris uses to unwind—and why his kid might be better at Mario Kart than Johan.📩 Feedback?Email us at: [email protected]