Since 2018, I’ve been working in the guts of Terraform, trying to find wide encompassing ways of building providers for Junos.

If programming is a gymnastics team sport, then architecture is the balance beam.

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.