Automation

Automate everything. Scripts, playbooks, pipelines, and infrastructure as code.

Core Competencies

Domain Coverage

Languages

Python, Bash, PowerShell, Go

Configuration Management

Ansible playbooks, roles, inventory, vault

Infrastructure as Code

Terraform, Pulumi, Packer

CI/CD

GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins

GitOps

ArgoCD, Flux

API Automation

REST, GraphQL, CLI development

Automation Philosophy

  1. Idempotent — running twice produces same result

  2. Declarative — describe desired state, not steps

  3. Version controlled — everything in git

  4. Tested — lint, validate, test before deploy

  5. Documented — self-documenting code with clear comments

Tool Selection

Need Tool Why

Config management

Ansible

Agentless, YAML, massive module library

Cloud infrastructure

Terraform

Multi-cloud, state management, modules

Container infrastructure

Pulumi

Real programming languages, type safety

Image building

Packer

Multi-platform, consistent images

Ansible Example

---
- name: Configure web servers
  hosts: webservers
  become: true

  tasks:
    - name: Install nginx
      ansible.builtin.package:
        name: nginx
        state: present

    - name: Start nginx
      ansible.builtin.service:
        name: nginx
        state: started
        enabled: true

Related

  • Linux — Linux automation

  • Cloud — Cloud-specific automation

  • Security — Secrets for automation