Anonymized writeups of engagements where the engineering details matter -- what we built, how we built it, and what we learned.
Building an Ansible install-mode playbook with 6-hour auto-abort rollback, the install_commit invoke_shell workaround, and a separate inactive-image cleanup pass.
DevOps & AutomationThree CI repos (sw-to-netbox / tenable-to-netbox / splunk-to-netbox) bring SolarWinds, Tenable, Splunk, vCenter, and Cisco Secure Endpoint into a MAC-keyed asset record -- 860 nodes synced.
CybersecuritySHA1+AES128 on FortiSwitch v6.2 and Cisco IPBASE images. SHA256+AES256 on FortiOS 7.x. One credential mapping policy. Zero polling outages.
Compliance & GovernanceFortiGate policy backups committed to self-hosted GitLab, auto-archived to the NCN CIP share. Audit prep becomes a query, not a project.