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Field notes on identity, Terraform, and IT operations.

Written from running these systems in production, not from reading the docs. Short, specific, and built around the work we actually do.

Terraform

Plain English to Terraform

How a plain-English description becomes production-grade Terraform across seven providers, then a pull request in your repo.

Read the guide~3 min
Identity

Okta Terraform automation

Managing Okta as code: what belongs in Terraform, the parts that bite (event hooks, drift, lifecycle), and how to get it right.

Read the guide~3 min
Governance

IT governance, run by agents

How Paragon turns governance from a dashboard of problems into an assess, generate, remediate loop across twelve modules.

Read the guide~3 min
Identity

Continuous access reviews

Why the quarterly access-review spreadsheet fails, what it is meant to catch, and how to run it continuously with the fix attached.

Read the guide~3 min
Networks

Autonomous detection, human-approved fixes

Splitting autonomous LAN fault detection from one-tap, human-approved remediation behind a confidence gate, kill switch, and append-only audit trail.

Read the guide~3 min
Networks

Multi-vendor LAN faults under one model

Running a mixed Meraki and UniFi fleet (and a real on-LAN host probe) under one canonical fault model, one board, swappable per-vendor adapters underneath.

Read the guide~3 min

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