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Orchestration & Automation

Itential, webMethods, Terraform and Kubernetes — governed on the principle that automation multiplies the blast radius of a mistake.

Also known as Itential, Gluware, Terraform, Kubernetes, Infrastructure as Code

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Automated recurring infrastructure and integration work using orchestration and integration platforms including Itential and webMethods, paired with formal change control on a simple principle: automation multiplies the blast radius of a mistake, so it requires more governance than manual work, not less, and the people holding the keys have to understand what a bad change costs.

Infrastructure as code with Terraform, and Kubernetes in the platform estate, governed with the same guardrails.

Assessed the platforms rather than inheriting one: a comparative proof of concept putting Itential and Gluware against traditional automation methods, each built out on virtualized topologies rather than judged on a datasheet, and carried through to a signed master services agreement.

Subtopics

  • webMethods IntegrationEnterprise service bus and API gateway architecture — designed so the integration layer itself was not a single point of failure.

Applied in

  • Career Reference Record — Design, Build and Publishing PlatformApril–September 2026A cross-linked reference work built as a derived graph: edges declared once, every index, backlink and chart generated from them, published static with per-document access control.
  • Diversified Industrial Manufacturer2025–2026Business-unit and data center assessments, automated discovery and network assurance, an enterprise architecture review, and integration across two acquisitions.
  • Network Orchestration Proof of Concept2025–2026Itential and Gluware assessed against traditional automation for the group's parent company — built out on virtualized topologies rather than judged on datasheets, under a signed statement of work, closing with a master services agreement.
  • Enterprise Networking Practice Lab2026Three repurposed servers being rebuilt into a 2.3 TB virtualized network emulation cluster, funded on a cost-per-month argument against a six-month procurement lead time — and the end of a practice running on engineers' own hardware.
  • Commercial Site Rebuild and Live Domain MigrationApril–September 2026Twenty pages moved off a hosted page builder onto a static build, and a live domain repointed to a new host without touching any of the six records carrying its mail.
  • Infrastructure and Integration Automation2018–2024Recurring infrastructure and integration work automated on orchestration platforms, governed on the principle that automation multiplies the blast radius of a mistake.
  • Nine Years to an Integration Platform2014–2023A platform question carried across two evaluations and nine years — lost in 2014 to a vendor who could discount faster than a migration could be justified, and answered in 2023 by attaching it to a building.

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