I've been in healthcare/finance for a decade. C level. I'm not a cowboy, I'm incredibly thorough, and I have a reputation for excellent work done fast. I'm in the third company for this PE firm because of the strong reputation I've created working at their companies. In 2021 they brought me in part-time consulting on one healthcare company where in 7 months I reorganized the IT structure, helping them land a very nice 9 figure exit.

My kind of operations work VERY well in highly regulated industries because I'm meticulous about regulations. Just because I can do it quickly doesn't mean I do it poorly, and I don't appreciate the assumption that I'm a "cowboy" being reckless.

And it would appear to me you are underinformed about how much migration off of VMware is really happening in these highly regulated industries. There's a tremendous amount of low-profile engineering going on to migrate away. No one is tipping off Broadcom because they don't want BCom to try turning the screws even more.

Terraform is not OSS, it switched to a source-available license over a year ago.

OpenTofu[0] is the OSS fork though.

[0]: https://github.com/opentofu/opentofu

Disclaimer: involved with OpenTofu

Yep. You're thinking of TFE. Workspaces and Stacks are the the advertised method for building composable infra.

But vault was already a pretty enterprise offering. I'd imagine most people running it had an existing contract.