Practical articles on AI, DevOps, Cloud, Linux, and infrastructure engineering.
A team of 30 engineers all editing the same monolithic Ansible repo doesn't work. Here's the role taxonomy and review process that did.
One Terraform state file per environment sounds obvious until you watch a dev plan touch a prod resource. Here's how we actually isolate state and the mistakes we made getting there.
A real story of removing console-only changes, adding drift detection, and getting Terraform back in charge.
We had three months of slow drift between our Terraform code and AWS reality. Here's the daily-cron + Slack workflow that closed the gap.
Compare Terraform, Pulumi, and Ansible for Infrastructure as Code. Learn when to use each tool and how they complement each other in modern DevOps workflows.
How we organize Terraform state across 12 AWS accounts and 40+ services. Backends, locking, partitioning, and the migration we got wrong twice.
We use Ansible for configuration management on hosts where Terraform stops. The workflow that keeps it tractable and what we wish we'd known about idempotency.
