In 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 read
This 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 read
This 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 read
Imagine a world where developers no longer wait hours or days for the resources they need. Instead, they deploy, test, and scale applications in real time while IT teams maintain control and manage costs. This isn’t a distant dream; it’s the reality enabled by developer-friendly and cost-effective private clouds that are revolutionizing enterprise IT. For
· December 17, 2024 · 4 min read