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Infrastructure as code, Linux, automation, containers, systems and reliable IT operations.
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Terraform can make infrastructure reproducible only when its configuration, providers and state describe the same intended world. The HashiCorp Terraform Associate 004 exam tests infrastructure […]
Read articleReusable infrastructure code is valuable only when it preserves the differences that matter between environments. An organization may run dozens of applications with similar networks, […]
Read articleA successful Terraform plan on a developer laptop does not prove that infrastructure changes will be controlled when a dozen teams begin making them. Shared […]
Read articleA private cloud can have abundant CPU capacity and still experience severe outages because its storage and availability design was based on optimistic assumptions. VMware […]
Read articleAn incident postmortem is valuable only if it changes how the organization builds, operates, and responds to its systems. An elegant report with a detailed […]
Read articleA service organization can have talented engineers, dependable technology and detailed procedures while still making inconsistent decisions about value and risk. Governance and continual improvement […]
Read articleA value stream is not a list of departments or a diagram of every software ticket. It is the connected work through which demand or […]
Read articleModern service management becomes much easier to understand when a team stops treating a service as a queue of tickets and starts treating it as […]
Read articleNetworking is where a private-cloud design meets the external world. It is also where several otherwise reasonable VMware Cloud Foundation decisions collide: IP addressing, workload […]
Read articleThe difficult part of designing a private cloud is seldom drawing the components. It is translating competing business requirements into a platform that can be […]
Read articleKubernetes probes are often copied from a sample manifest without much thought about what they mean for users. That approach can turn a transient dependency […]
Read articleGitOps is often summarized as “Git is the source of truth,” but repositories do not operate clusters on their own. The important engineering property is […]
Read articleKubernetes makes it convenient for workloads to discover and contact one another, but that connectivity should not be mistaken for appropriate trust. A payment application, […]
Read articleKubernetes role-based access control (RBAC) determines which authenticated subjects may perform specific API operations on which resources and at what scope. It is central to […]
Read articleReusable GitHub Actions workflows help teams centralize build, test, security, and deployment steps across repositories. That can reduce copy-paste drift, but it also creates a […]
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