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.
6 results — 4 posts, 2 projects
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.
Battle-tested Ansible playbooks and roles for hybrid infrastructure: Linux hardening, Docker/Kubernetes node setup, VMware guest provisioning, and AWS EC2 bootstrapping via Packer.
How to build infrastructure that degrades gracefully instead of catastrophically — circuit breakers, bulkheads, multi-AZ layouts, and chaos engineering in practice.
What actually happens when you migrate production workloads from VMware vSphere to AWS EKS — the planning, the surprises, and what I'd do differently.
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.
Structuring Terraform modules and state for large teams — versioning, composition patterns, Atlantis workflows, and avoiding the monorepo trap.