Topic
Platform Engineering
AKS, Vault, GitOps and CI/CD - the substrate everything else runs on.
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GitLab CI/CD for Cloudflare Pages: Automated Deployments with Preview Environments
How to set up a GitLab CI/CD pipeline for Cloudflare Pages with preview deployments on merge requests and automatic production deploys.
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Building a Raspberry Pi5 Cluster with Talos Linux and Cilium
A small, quiet, genuinely highly-available Kubernetes cluster on four Raspberry Pi 5 boards, running Talos Linux with Cilium - the full kit list, the build, and everything that bit back.
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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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New Website, refactored
Moving ascode.nl off Hugo and AWS onto Eleventy and Cloudflare Pages - and why a static site that takes one command to build beat the serverless stack it replaced.
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Shared VPC Subnet tagging
Sharing a central VPC across AWS accounts in a landing zone, and using subnet tags to keep isolated, private and transit-gateway subnets straight per account.
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AWS Account creation, fully automated - ascode style
Vending new AWS accounts from Terraform - organisations, OUs and baseline guardrails applied automatically, so a new account is never a hand-built snowflake.
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How to build a serverless website, in AWS
Building the first ascode.nl as a fully serverless site on AWS - S3, CloudFront, ACM and Route 53 in Terraform, with a DTAP street and GitLab CI doing the deploys.
Working on something in this area?
Thirty minutes, no deck - tell me what you're building and where the pressure is coming from.