Solutions from the DevOps front lines
If you’ve ever worked with AWS in the real world you are probably very used to seeing IAM Users and Roles which are terrifyingly over-permissioned. In my experience it’s pretty common to find them in the wild with acc...
Recently I had cause to revisit a topic that often seems to cause problems for people coming to Ansible for the first time, especially for people (like me) who don’t have a development background. How to iterative ove...
Recently I’ve been having some fun moving my lab and home infrastructure to Kubernetes. I had a feeling that deploying the UniFi Controller was going to be a bit of a painful process but it’s not so bad.
UPDATE 08/10/2025: If you are reading this article and nothing seems to work anymore. It was written for Crossplane 1.9. I have written a newer guide for Crossplane v2.0 here .
In Part 1 of this project we covered building the infrastructure that underpins Kubernetes; the Virtual Machines that make up it’s Control and Data Planes, implementing high availability, bootstrapping the core Kubern...