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Audit GitLab CI/CD Drift with PowerShell
A practical PowerShell workflow for inventorying GitLab projects, collecting only CI-relevant files and identifying copied pipeline drift.
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Articles
Long-form writing tagged PowerShell.
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Verified Backports Across GitLab Repos
How I turned successful sandbox pipelines into narrow, reviewable GitLab merge requests without allowing automation to rewrite source repositories blindly.
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How I Standardised CI/CD Across 37 GitLab Repos
How one broken release job became a repeatable audit, sandbox, verification and backport workflow for a mixed GitLab repository estate.
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Maintainable PowerShell Automation
A practical standard for PowerShell that makes production automation predictable, testable, supportable and safe to change.
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Idempotent PowerShell Backup Automation
How to design backup automation that converges configuration safely, proves each run, controls retention and keeps restore testing separate from job success.
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Managing Device Posture as Code
How to model, validate and deploy Cloudflare device posture checks as reusable configuration without coupling policy intent to environment-specific object IDs.
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Reliable PKI Maintenance Automation
A safe pattern for automating PKI inventory, expiry monitoring, CA health checks, maintenance evidence and certificate lifecycle tasks without hiding risk.
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Secure Infrastructure Delivery Pipelines
A practical DevSecOps pipeline for infrastructure changes: validate early, protect credentials, inspect plans, approve risk and retain deployment evidence.
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Troubleshoot AD Lockouts with PowerShell
Use events 4740 and 4625 together to move from 'the account keeps locking' to a timeline that identifies the source device, logon type and stale credential.
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Find Missing AD Subnets with Netlogon
NO_CLIENT_SITE entries in Netlogon logs are useful evidence that client networks are not mapped cleanly to Active Directory sites. PowerShell can turn the logs into a subnet-hygiene report.
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Dynamic Cloudflare Lists from Provider IPs
A practical pattern for consuming AWS/Azure network feeds, calculating desired state and safely synchronising Cloudflare Zero Trust lists with PowerShell.
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Cloudflare WARP Configuration as Code
When private sites and DNS exceptions multiply, WARP device-profile configuration becomes data. Source control can become the input and PowerShell the generator.
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Safe Cloudflare Zero Trust Pipelines
As Zero Trust policy grows, the engineering problem shifts from configuring a dashboard to safely compiling, validating and deploying policy across environments.
Today I Learned
Short notes and fixes tagged PowerShell.
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AD lastLogon vs lastLogonTimestamp
Why Active Directory exposes multiple logon attributes and why choosing the wrong one can give misleading results.
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PowerShell Process-Scope Execution Policy
When a local script is blocked by execution policy, Process scope can be useful for a temporary session without changing the machine-wide setting.
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Testing HTTP Redirects with curl.exe
Use a HEAD request to see the HTTP status and Location header without downloading the complete page.