A single wildcard cert covering every service on a shared LB is what turns cert sprawl from a…
Cert sprawl starts with DNS. If the zone you issue certs against isn’t locked down first, every cert…
Self-hosting GitLab gives you full control over your source code, CI/CD pipelines, and container registry. On Ubuntu 26.04…
Jenkins remains the most widely deployed CI/CD server, with over 300,000 known installations and a plugin ecosystem that…
Standard Ansible runs when you tell it to. Event-Driven Ansible (EDA) flips that model: it watches for events…
The IaC landscape split in 2023 when HashiCorp moved Terraform from the Mozilla Public License to the Business…
Static inventory files work until you have more than a handful of servers. Once VMs spin up and…
Ansible turns a 40-step server setup into a single command. For infrastructure provisioning (VPCs, VMs, cloud resources), pair…
Config files are where most Ansible complexity lives. A static copy module works until you need different ports…
The first playbook that does one thing to all hosts is satisfying. The second you need different behavior…
Variables are what make Ansible playbooks reusable instead of disposable. Without them, you end up hardcoding hostnames, ports,…
Production Cloud SQL PostgreSQL 17 setup with Terraform. Private IP, IAM auth, backups, read replicas, Auth Proxy for…
