For my side projects, I’ve been working towards a nice modular unit of scale, in which a compute unit (VM) delivers services glued together by the excellent NATs.

A Penny Drops Other than virtual machines serving functions I can’t live without (Docker, CCTV, file storage etc), I begrudge turning more servers on because the hassle outweighs the gain.

This short post discusses maturity of automation based on workflow meta-data and proposes that we start tagging workflows, or workflow south-bound interface (SBI) plugins with leaky requirements.

This page contains information I’ve been gathering in the name of an emerging branch of operations I’m dubbing “GraphOps”.

Nothing of technical merit is in this post! You’ve been warned.

Info! This article is focussed on thoughts derived from learning software skills and was drafted over the period of a few weeks.

This post shares some musings on the matter of the importance of consumable topology in automation.

A requirement came up to extract a schema from a Terraform provider in JSON, which Terraform offers as a native feature as of version 0.

Some thoughts on systems that I describe as natural ones. These systems allow constituent components to behave within confines of wider system rules and don’t care for specifics.