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

<p>In this episode, Johan and Jeffrey sit down with industry legend and long-time community contributor <strong>Chris Wahl</strong> 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 <em>showing</em> what good looks like rather than just telling.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>⏱️ Highlights</strong>:</p><p><br></p><ul><li><p>00:37 – Meet Chris Wahl: Blogger, technologist, gamer, legend</p></li><li><p>03:00 – The IKEA Wheel and unwinding with brutal dungeon games</p></li><li><p>05:00 – Rapid fire: Terraform, PowerShell, Kubernetes vs vSphere</p></li><li><p>08:30 – Career evolution: From vSphere to Kubernetes and AWS</p></li><li><p>12:30 – Drinking from the firehose: Adapting to cloud-native</p></li><li><p>18:00 – Developers vs IT: Building a real Dev+Platform culture</p></li><li><p>22:00 – <em>When Shit Hit the Fan</em>: How a UCS upgrade took down a 5,000-person org</p></li><li><p>30:00 – Chris’s Life Lesson: “Don’t tell people what good looks like—<strong>show</strong> them.”</p></li></ul><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><strong>👤 Guest</strong>:</p><p>Chris Wahl</p><p>🌐 <a href="https://wahlnetwork.com">https://wahlnetwork.com</a></p><p>🔗 <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/chriswahl/">LinkedIn</a></p><p><br></p><p><strong>🎮 Bonus</strong>: Discover which brutal RPG Chris uses to unwind—and why his kid might be better at Mario Kart than Johan.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>📩 Feedback?</strong></p><p>Email us at: podcast@itq.eu</p>