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An IT services overview

My current role within the company I work for is “domain architect”, part of the enterprise architects teams. The domain I am accountable for is “infrastructure”, which can be seen as a very broad one. Now, I’ve been maintaining an overview of our IT services before I reached that role, mainly from an elaborate interest in the subject, as well as to optimize my efficiency further.

Becoming a domain architect allows me to use the insights I’ve since gathered to try and give appropriate advice, but also now requires me to maintain a domain architecture. This structure is going to be the starting point of it, although it is not the true all and end all of what I would consider a domain architecture.

Fiddling with puppet apply

As part of a larger exercise, I am switching my local VM set from a more-or-less scripted manual configuration towards a fully Puppet-powered one. Of course, it still uses a lot of custom modules and is most likely too ugly to expose to the wider internet, but it does seem …