In the previous post, I introduced the mental model for CI/CD against Private Cloud Director (PCD): a provisioning phase driven by Terraform, a configuration phase driven by Ansible, and a handoff between them through dynamic inventory. In this post, I’d like to zoom in on the provisioning phase and walk through what a GitOps pipeline […]
· May 19, 2026 · 14 min readIn earlier posts in the Automating Private Cloud Director series, I covered the Private Cloud Director (PCD) API, Terraform, Ansible, and enterprise integration patterns. Those posts focused on the primitives: the interfaces and tools you use to drive PCD programmatically. In this post, I’d like to shift from primitives to patterns, and specifically to the
· May 6, 2026 · 6 min readThis is the fourth post in the Automating Private Cloud Director series. The previous posts covered the foundational toolchain: API authentication, Terraform for infrastructure provisioning, and Ansible for infrastructure & post-deployment configuration. Those capabilities are sufficient for many organizations. But in enterprises with compliance requirements, regulated workloads, or large IT teams, “anyone can deploy from
· April 29, 2026 · 8 min readThis is the third post in the Automating Private Cloud Director series. In the first post, I covered the API surface and authentication. In the second, I walked through deploying a VM with Terraform. In this post, I’d like to cover Ansible. Where Terraform excels at declaring infrastructure state (“I want this VM, this volume,
· April 20, 2026 · 8 min readThis is the second post in the Automating Private Cloud Director series. In the first post, I covered the Private Cloud Director (PCD) API surface, how authentication works under the hood, and using the CLI. In this post, I’d like to walk through something practical: installing Terraform, pointing it at your PCD environment, and deploying
· April 15, 2026 · 8 min readThis is the first post in the Automating Private Cloud Director series. Everything you can do in the Private Cloud Director (PCD) UI, you can do through an API. Creating VMs, managing networks, configuring storage, assigning users to tenants. All of it. That’s not an afterthought; the UI itself is an API client. In this
· April 6, 2026 · 7 min read