6 articles tagged with Automation.
We had the same 180-line build workflow copy-pasted into 60 repos. Fixing one bug meant 60 PRs. Here's the reusable-workflow setup that made it one.
We inherited 200-odd AWS resources built by hand over four years, with no state file anywhere. Here's how import blocks and a generation workflow got them under Terraform without a rebuild.
A cron job silently stopped running for three weeks and nobody knew until the backups were missing. systemd timers give you the logging and status cron never did.
Twenty-three clusters, one app, and a folder of near-identical Application YAMLs that drifted constantly. ApplicationSets killed the copy-paste and the drift.
State drift is silent until a deploy fails or an outage reveals it. The scheduled plan-and-diff pipeline that surfaces console hotfixes and manual edits while they're still cheap to reconcile.
AI agents for incident triage sound great in demos. We've tried it in production. The patterns that earn their keep, the ones that backfire, and where humans still beat agents.
