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In the history of medium-sized IT infrastructures and system houses, having one’s own data center was considered an undeniable competitive …
In the history of mid-sized IT infrastructures and system houses, having one’s own data center was considered an undeniable competitive …
Why Platforms Have Become the Actual Security Architecture of Modern Infrastructures In the previous parts of this series, we explored various …
Why Reproducibility is a Security Requirement In recent years, Infrastructure as Code has become one of the most crucial components of modern …
Why Modern Platforms Cannot Be Secured Retroactively The discussion about IT security is still dominated by a misconception. Security is often seen …
In many mature SaaS infrastructures, the day of a software release is a day of tension. The engineering team has worked for weeks on new features, …
Transforming Mature Ansible Structures into a Scalable Polycrate Platform Architecture 1. The Strategic Necessity of Transformation In modern …
TL;DR The Polycrate API transforms individual workspaces into a team platform: all workspaces, action runs, and SSH sessions are centrally …
TL;DR Polycrate not only logs Action Runs (Ansible playbooks) but also SSH sessions, workspace syncs, and CLI instances – all centrally accessible via …
TL;DR A well-named, clearly structured Polycrate workspace is half the battle: a consistent name (e.g., acme-corp-automation) and a simple directory …
TL;DR Polycrate is more than just a CLI tool: With PolyHub, an API platform, and MCP, it forms an ecosystem where reusable automation blocks, …
TL;DR Plain Ansible is a powerful tool for ad-hoc automation, quick scripts, and simple setups – but teams quickly hit limits with dependencies, …
TL;DR The Model Context Protocol (MCP) is an open standard: AI clients talk to helper programs over stdin/stdout (stdio) using JSON-RPC. polycrate mcp …
TL;DR In many enterprise organizations, each team builds its own Ansible environment—without clear versioning, without central reuse, without …
TL;DR You can centrally manage hundreds of Raspberry Pis and other edge nodes with Ansible—without an agent on the devices, just via SSH. Polycrate …
TL;DR Unencrypted SSH keys, plaintext passwords, and credentials in wikis pose a compliance risk—especially under GDPR (since 25.05.2018) and NIS-2 …
TL;DR Manual compliance checking with Excel lists is slow, error-prone, and hardly reproducible – with Policy as Code, you describe your requirements …
TL;DR Deploying Helm charts directly via CLI works – but only with Ansible and Polycrate do deployments become truly idempotent, versioned, and …
TL;DR Polycrate is not just a deployment tool: With polycrate ssh and block actions for kubectl, it becomes a central operations tool for Linux, …
TL;DR In Polycrate, multi-cluster automatically means multi-workspace: one workspace manages exactly one Kubernetes cluster. That keeps …
TL;DR In this post, you’ll create a complete Polycrate block for your own Kubernetes app – including block.poly, an Ansible playbook, and three …
TL;DR PolyHub functions like an app store for infrastructure: Ready-made ayedo blocks for Kubernetes apps (nginx, cert-manager, external-dns, and many …
TL;DR Most environments are hybrid: Windows servers for AD, file services, and specialized applications, Linux for web, databases, and automation – …
TL;DR You can implement standardized Windows software deployment without expensive SCCM infrastructure – using Chocolatey as a package manager and …
TL;DR Set up WinRM properly once with HTTPS, certificate, and firewall rules, and you’ll have a stable foundation for Ansible automation on …
TL;DR Managing a single server with Ansible is quick and easy, but once you add 10, 50, or 200 hosts, the inventory becomes a critical scaling factor. …
TL;DR Docker Compose remains a sensible, pragmatic solution for many Linux server setups, especially if you are managing individual hosts or small …
TL;DR You build a reusable Polycrate block that automates the deployment of Nginx and Let’s Encrypt (via community.general.certbot) on a Linux …
TL;DR With Polycrate, you create a single inventory.yml in the workspace root to centrally manage all Linux servers—without needing your own Ansible …
TL;DR Polycrate structures Ansible automation into three building blocks: Blocks, Actions, and Workspaces – eliminating the classic playbook sprawl …
TL;DR Install Polycrate with a single curl command – no pip, no virtualenv, no local Ansible installation required. Initialize a workspace, understand …
Operating a modern IT infrastructure today often feels like being a mechanic who needs a different workshop for every screw. We use Terraform for …
With version 0.29.1, Polycrate receives an important maintenance release with an Ansible upgrade for kubernetes.core compatibility. Python & …
TL;DR Polycrate is an Ansible-based framework for deployment automation that containerizes all necessary tools, enabling reproducible deployments …
In industries like manufacturing, finance, or critical infrastructures, automation is not a “nice-to-have” but a mandatory necessity. …