From 48 Hours to 2: What Cluster Automation Actually Taught Me

When we started the VMware-to-OpenShift migration, provisioning a production cluster took a 48-hour runbook and a very patient engineer. Today it takes under two hours at 85% automation coverage. This post is a placeholder — replace it with your first real article.

What the number hides

The tooling (Ansible, Terraform, ArgoCD, Helm, Kyverno) was the easy part. The hard part was deciding which humans no longer need to approve which steps — which is a trust-boundary question, and the seed of what later became the SATHOS research line.