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  1. AI Governance
    15 September 2026
    7 min read
    AI Landing Zone on Azure

    Building an AI Landing Zone on Azure - Part 1: Why every enterprise needs an AI gateway

    Teams are calling LLM endpoints directly with API keys in config files and nobody knows who is spending what. Here is the landing zone I built to fix that, and why.

  2. Identity & Zero Trust
    6 April 2026
    17 min read

    Building a Cloud-Native PKI with HashiCorp Vault

    I built an HA Vault PKI on Kubernetes to sign the subordinate CA that Global Secure Access needs for TLS inspection. Vault cannot issue a certificate that is both a CA and carries Server Auth EKU, so it could not be done. Updated September 2026: Microsoft now offers a managed certificate for GSA in preview, which removes the problem entirely.

  3. Platform Engineering
    30 September 2025
    14 min read

    Self-hosted Gitlab Runners on AKS, with Managed Identities

    Self-hosted GitLab runners on AKS using Managed Identities instead of service principals - so a runner can only ever act as itself, with exactly the permissions its jobs need.

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Erik Christiaans - independent cloud and AI platform architect, based in Velsen. Azure, AWS, Kubernetes, Entra ID and Terraform, for organisations that have to explain their choices to a regulator.

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