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MCP & Agentic AI

Build MCP servers and agent skills that work through your pipeline, not around it.

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Ansible & AAP

Playbooks, AWX and Automation Platform, from first run to production gotchas.

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Certificates

TLS lifecycle with Let's Encrypt, Cloudflare DNS, ASA and F5.

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NetBox as inventory, YAML you can read, intent you can diff.

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Cover: Observability is impact. A dependency chain from the payroll business flow down through the app, servers and network to a circuit marked down, and a blast-radius panel where monitoring says circuit down and observability says payroll is impacted and timesheets are not

Nov 15, 2026 ·11 min

Observability Isn't Uptime: It's Knowing What Breaks the Business

Observability is uptime, monitoring and telemetry plus your inventory and business flows, so you can see which flow breaks when a switch, server or …

#network-automation #automation #netbox

CapeOS cover: a panel listing the two dialects, Bolt with a classic CLI and Pulse with configure sessions and a JSON-RPC API, on Linux, FRRouting and nftables under containerlab

Nov 10, 2026 ·8 min

Why I Built CapeOS, an Open-Source Network OS for Labs

The Network Doodles labs needed switches and routers anyone could run for free, with a command line beginners recognize. Nothing fit, so I built …

#capeos #containerlab #network-automation

From InfraGenie to ODIN: agents propose, automation fixes, with root cause analysis in front of every change

Nov 5, 2026 ·16 min

From InfraGenie to ODIN: Taking a Hackathon AI Agent to Production

InfraGenie won a hackathon by flipping one idea: agents propose, automation fixes. ODIN takes that framework to production and adds the part before …

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Let's Encrypt with Ansible

Automate the whole TLS certificate lifecycle: request with Ansible Core, run it from AWX/AAP with GitOps, deploy to Cisco ASA and F5 BIG-IP, …

Mar 14, 2026 ·13 min

MCP Transport Types Explained: stdio, SSE, and Streamable HTTP. Which One Do You Actually Need?

A practical guide to MCP transport types, breaking down stdio, SSE, and Streamable HTTP with FastMCP configuration examples and a clear decision guide …

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