Insights
Engineering notes on enterprise automation.
Working notes on the problems that actually consume time: migrations, platform lifecycle, testing, secrets and governed AI. Published when they are worth reading, not on a content schedule.
Nothing below is published yet. Each entry shows its real status — draft, planned, or coming later — with no invented dates, view counts or engagement figures.
Planned and in draft
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Planned
Migrating 20,000 endpoints from BigFix to Ansible
What actually breaks in a multi-country endpoint migration, and how parallel validation keeps it honest.
Migration
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Planned
Building maintainable Execution Environments
Declaring dependencies, building in CI and publishing to a private registry instead of hand-built images.
Platform
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Draft
AWX Operator lifecycle management
Treating the platform as code so upgrades stop being events.
Platform
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Planned
GitOps for Automation Controller
Keeping projects, inventories, credentials and templates in source, and reconciling drift.
Platform
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Draft
Testing Ansible with Molecule and pytest
What is worth testing in automation content, and what is theatre.
Testing
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Planned
Integrating Vault and CyberArk with automation
Getting credentials out of playbooks without making every run fragile.
Security
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Planned
MCP for governed enterprise operations
Exposing narrow tools instead of handing a model credentials.
AI operations
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Coming later
AI-assisted incident analysis without losing control
Anonymization, retrieval boundaries and why approval gates matter more than model choice.
AI operations
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