About the Cooks

About Martin Linxfeld

Martin Linxfeld, known online as Luke Martin Feldman and The Cook, is a Cloud Evangelist, Terraform Instructor and Multicloud Architect with 20+ years of IT experience.

Professional Journey

Martin currently works at Oracle as a Senior Principal Product Manager, helping global customers design and automate complex cloud architectures. Before that, he worked for years as a Cloud Solution Architect on the Oracle A-Team, helping enterprise customers move their environments to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.

Throughout this time, he became a strong advocate of Infrastructure as Code, guiding organizations from manual deployments to automated solutions based on Terraform, OpenTofu and Ansible.

Today, Martin focuses on reference architectures, Terraform QuickStarts and secure multicloud solutions with OCI and Azure.

Personal Life

Outside of the cloud world, Martin is a happy husband and father of three teenagers. He is a passionate board game enthusiast, especially when the games are strategic and competitive.

He loves to run through the nearby forest, which he often describes as the best temple for clearing the mind. Long walks and weekend runs help him recharge between content creation and teaching.

Photography is another quiet passion. Martin often brings his camera along to capture moments in nature.

Certifications

Martin's professional credibility is backed by a portfolio of cloud and infrastructure certifications earned over two decades of hands-on work.

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure 2024 Certified Multicloud Architect Associate

Oracle

Issued Oct 2024 · Expires Oct 2026

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure 2024 Certified Architect Professional

Oracle

Issued Oct 2024 · Expires Oct 2026

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure 2023 Certified DevOps Professional

Oracle

Issued Aug 2023 · Expires Aug 2025

Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals

Microsoft

Issued Oct 2022

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure 2022 Certified Architect Professional

Oracle

Issued Oct 2022

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure 2022 Certified Architect Associate

Oracle

Issued Sep 2022

HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate

HashiCorp

Issued Jul 2020

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure 2019 Cloud Operations Certified Associate

Oracle

Issued Jul 2020

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Developer 2020 Certified Associate

Oracle

Issued May 2020

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure 2019 Certified Architect Professional

Oracle

Issued Nov 2020 · Expires Nov 2021

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure 2018 Certified Architect Associate

Oracle

Issued Aug 2018 · Expires Jun 2020

Oracle Database Cloud Services 2016 Presales Specialist

Oracle

Issued Mar 2016

Oracle Exadata Database Machine 2016 Sales Specialist

Oracle

Issued Feb 2016

Oracle Exadata Database Machine 2016 Presales Specialist

Oracle

Issued Feb 2016

Oracle Certified Expert, Oracle Database 12c: Performance Management and Tuning

Oracle

Issued Jan 2016

FoggyKitchen Mission

FoggyKitchen is Martin's personal mission to share real, hands-on cloud knowledge with engineers around the world. The mission is rooted in the FoggyKitchen Manifesto: cloud infrastructure should be built like a good recipe, with well-chosen ingredients, reusable patterns and repeatable processes.

Step-by-step Terraform/OpenTofu courses that guide learners from building blocks to complex multicloud architectures.
Blog posts and diagrams that cut through hype and focus on proven engineering practices.
Practical experiments and real-world scenarios showing production-grade cloud automation.

The goal is to help engineers move from clicking in consoles to writing infrastructure as code, bringing clarity, discipline and repeatability to cloud work.

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Important Note

These are personal blogs and educational materials. Views and opinions represented here are personal and do not represent those of people, institutions or organizations Martin may be associated with professionally or personally. In particular, views expressed here are his own and do not necessarily reflect the views of Oracle.

Content is provided for informational purposes only. FoggyKitchen makes no representations as to the accuracy or completeness of any information on this site or found by following any link.

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