# Mehdi Laruelle

> Mehdi Laruelle, Platform Engineer and SRE. AWS, Terraform, HashiCorp Vault, Kubernetes and CI/CD, with a bias towards secrets management.

I am a **Platform Engineer** and **SRE**. For ten years I have been building
and running the platforms other engineers deploy on, mostly on **AWS**, with
**Terraform**, **HashiCorp Vault** and **Kubernetes**. The subject I keep
coming back to is secrets management: where to store secrets, how to
distribute them and how to move them through a CI/CD pipeline without leaving
them in plain text somewhere.

I believe technical knowledge should stay free and available to everyone, in
French as much as in English. That is why I teach, why I speak at conferences,
and why I write here in both languages.

I have been an **AWS Authorized Instructor** for six years, was a
**HashiCorp Ambassador** from 2020 to 2025 and an **AWS Community Builder**
in 2024.

The articles worth starting with:

- [HashiCorp Vault authentication methods and how to choose one](https://mehdilaruelle.com/posts/2018/09/how-to-choose-your-authenticate-method-with-vault/)
- [Terraform on AWS with GitLab CI and Vault: dynamic credentials](https://mehdilaruelle.com/posts/2021/03/secure-your-terraform-deployment-on-aws-with-gitlab-ci-and-vault-pipeline-side/)
- [Migrating an application's secrets into Vault, in three steps](https://mehdilaruelle.com/posts/2019/03/migrate-your-application-secrets-in-vault-step-1/)
- [Deploying a Hugo site on AWS with Terraform and CloudFront](https://mehdilaruelle.com/posts/2023/10/deploy-your-hugo-site-on-aws-with-terraform-v2/)
- [AWS IAM Identity Center with Auth0, for free](https://mehdilaruelle.com/posts/2025/04/aws-sso-with-auth0-for-free/)

Everything else is on the [blog](/posts/) and there is a bit more about me on
the [about page](/about/). Meme lover too, but that one sits less well on a CV.

## Contents

- [Articles on Vault, Terraform and AWS](https://mehdilaruelle.com/posts/index.md): Articles on AWS, Terraform, HashiCorp Vault and CI/CD: building and securing platforms, from secrets management to static hosting.
- [Mentions Légales](https://mehdilaruelle.com/mentions-legales/index.md): Mentions légales du site mehdilaruelle.com : éditeur, hébergeur, propriété intellectuelle et gestion des données personnelles.
- [About](https://mehdilaruelle.com/about/index.md): Mehdi Laruelle, Platform Engineer and SRE: AWS, Terraform, HashiCorp Vault, Kubernetes, CI/CD and secrets management.
- [Tags](https://mehdilaruelle.com/tags/index.md)
- [Series](https://mehdilaruelle.com/series/index.md)

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