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What Lego Can Teach Us About Infrastructure and Terraform
Lego was a major part of my childhood. I could spend endless hours digging through plastic bins of deconstructed lego pieces searching...
Chris Howe
Mar 27, 20233 min read


General Purpose Generative AI: Why Controls, Ethics, and Structure are Needed. Part 1.
At this point, if you have not heard of ChatGPT or other general purpose generative “AI” tools, you have probably been living on Mars....

Mentat Collective
Feb 21, 20237 min read


Terraform Mentat Early Warning System (MEWS)
Have you woken up in the morning with a sinking feeling in the pit of your stomach? Then, suddenly, your phone and watch start vibrating...

Mentat Collective
Feb 17, 20232 min read


Preflight Check for Ansible Code Before Take Off
Introduction In this modern age, most of us have taken a trip by plane. In aviation, a preflight checklist is a list of tasks that should...
Chris Howe
Jan 20, 20233 min read


How Can Kubernetes Help Scale Your Business?
Kubernetes is an open-source platform for automating the deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications. It has...

Austin Jorgensen
Jan 13, 20234 min read


Network Device Telemetry at Scale
Detecting and visualizing common errors and misconfigurations across your network Introduction All too often technology managers believe...

Mentat Collective
Dec 15, 20227 min read


A Gitops Based Ansible QA Process in the Hybrid-Cloud
At Mentat we like making things simple, secure, and scalable. So, we decided to create a fully automated Ansible QA process based on...

Mentat Collective
Dec 15, 20225 min read


Fix it Fix it Fix it: Automation is Scientific Magic Part 1
Automate Solr deployments with Terraform.

Mentat Collective
Apr 2, 20187 min read
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