Designing for Failure: Resilience Patterns for Distributed Infrastructure
How to build infrastructure that degrades gracefully instead of catastrophically — circuit breakers, bulkheads, multi-AZ layouts, and chaos engineering in practice.
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Migrating to EKS: Lessons from Moving Legacy Workloads Off VMware
What actually happens when you migrate production workloads from VMware vSphere to AWS EKS — the planning, the surprises, and what I'd do differently.
Hybrid Cloud Done Right: AWS + VMware vSphere Without the Pain
Practical patterns for running a hybrid AWS and on-prem VMware estate — networking, IAM boundaries, consistent IaC, and avoiding the traps most teams fall into.
Terraform at Scale: Module Design for Large Infrastructure Orgs
Structuring Terraform modules and state for large teams — versioning, composition patterns, Atlantis workflows, and avoiding the monorepo trap.
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Terraform modules for a production-ready hybrid AWS + VMware vSphere baseline. Covers VPC design, Transit Gateway, Direct Connect patterns, IAM boundaries, and vSphere network integration.
Opinionated Terraform + Helm bootstrap for production-ready Kubernetes clusters on AWS EKS. Includes autoscaling, IRSA, Ingress, cert-manager, and a full observability stack out of the box.
Battle-tested Ansible playbooks and roles for hybrid infrastructure: Linux hardening, Docker/Kubernetes node setup, VMware guest provisioning, and AWS EC2 bootstrapping via Packer.
Batteries-included observability setup: Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, and Jaeger deployed via Helm with pre-built dashboards, alerting rules, and SLO templates for Kubernetes workloads.