Hello, I'm Trond!

Hello! I am Trond. Some times also known as "Trond Jakob" from people who insist on using both my first names for some unknown reason, or "TJ" from my more international friends or co-workers who struggle with Norwegian pronunciation.

I am a Microsoft MVP who currently work in Atea as the Global CCoE Lead and spend most of my working hours building cloud services and herding sheep cats wonderful people to move in the same direction and build cloud services.

Outside of work I like building things, whether it be Lego sets or changing patterns of light to do what I want, travel to exciting places, taking pictures, and relaxing with some gaming at a very low level of skill. You can find me on Bluesky or LinkedIn.

Newest blog posts

Add an overview of Terraform changes to GitHub Actions

I have had a small itch for a while when using GitHub Actions to run Terraform deployments where I had no easy way to get a very quick overview of which resources that will be created, changed, or deleted if I approve and merge a pull request. So I spent …

Azure subscription vending machine with Github and Terraform

This week we kicked off the first of six events in our Atea Community tour and I am lucky enough to be asked to host a session again this year. With more time, and a more technical fun stuff! One of my demo's in this session is using issue templates and …

Don’t try to sell me a Ferrari when I’m looking for a Fiat

With irregular intervals I notice streaming providers, especially the ones that have paid wild amounts of money for broadcasting rights to the most valuable sports events, turn on their lobbying machine and produce variations of the same story: Don’t use IPTV, you’re supporting organized crime. And every single time I …