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DevOps
Writing a GitLab Pipeline with Claude Code
A Jenkinsfile with one stage, no scanning, no caching. Here's how NextLink Labs used Claude Code to rewrite it into a production GitLab pipeline with rootless BuildKit, Trivy scanning, Skopeo retag, a...
Alex Podobnik
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Apr 28, 2026
DevOps
Importing Existing Infrastructure into Terraform with Claude Code
Someone set that up manually a while back. Sound familiar? Here's how NextLink Labs uses Claude Code's agentic loop to import hand-built AWS infrastructure into Terraform — compressing a multi-day job...
Alex Podobnik
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Apr 24, 2026
DevOps
How to Generate Terraform Modules with Claude
Most LLM-generated Terraform is bad — not because of the tool, but because of the prompt. Here's how NextLink Labs uses Claude Code and CLAUDE.md conventions to generate Terraform modules that are clo...
Alex Podobnik
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Apr 24, 2026
Custom Software Development
How To Connect Claude Code to Your Rails Models with MCP Servers
One account becomes five, and eventually nobody knows which guardrails are where. Here's how NextLink Labs manages AWS Organizations, OU hierarchies, and Service Control Policies with Terraform and Gi...
Colin Soleim
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Apr 22, 2026
DevOps
Managing AWS Organizations and SCPs with Infrastructure as Code
One account becomes five, and eventually nobody knows which guardrails are where. Here's how NextLink Labs manages AWS Organizations, OU hierarchies, and Service Control Policies with Terraform and Gi...
Alex Podobnik
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Apr 22, 2026
Security
Your Software Has Vulnerabilities. Here’s How We Use Claude to Find Them.
Every codebase has vulnerabilities. Traditional scanners catch known patterns — but miss business logic flaws, unreachable CVEs, and compound misconfigurations. Here's how NextLink Labs uses Claude to...
Travis Burmaster
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Apr 21, 2026
DevOps
Claude Code Configurations Every Rails Engineer Should Use
Claude Code works great on 50-line demos. Large Rails codebases are different. Here's how NextLink Labs configures CLAUDE.md, MCP servers, custom skills, and permission hooks to make Claude genuinely ...
Colin Soleim
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Apr 15, 2026
DevOps
Using Terraform Workspaces to Keep Infrastructure Consistent Across Environments
Production looks nothing like staging. Staging looks nothing like dev. Here's how NextLink Labs uses Terraform workspaces and GitLab CI/CD to eliminate infrastructure drift across every client environ...
Alex Podobnik
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Apr 15, 2026
DevOps
How NextLink Labs Builds Production AWS Infrastructure
Every AWS engagement used to start from scratch. NextLink Labs' Terraform reference architecture changes that — a production-ready, fully modular AWS foundation that cuts environment setup from 5 days...
Alex Podobnik
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Apr 7, 2026
Custom Software Development
Defending Your Rails App: Enabling Dependency Cooldowns to Prevent Supply Chain Attacks
A backdoored Axios package. A poisoned LiteLLM release. Both live for hours. A dependency cooldown would have blocked them both. Here's how to protect your Rails app with gem.coop, Dependabot, and Bun...
Colin Soleim
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Apr 6, 2026
DevOps
Observability Best Practices with Grafana Cloud
Most teams have dashboards. Very few have observability. This playbook walks through the five-level maturity model NextLink Labs uses to build real observability with Grafana Cloud — from metrics to p...
Alex Podobnik
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Mar 31, 2026
DevOps
Leveraging Hardened Docker Images: How We Stay Secure and Eliminate Image Maintenance Overhead
Stop accumulating CVEs silently. Learn how NextLink Labs uses Docker Hardened Images to eliminate base image maintenance overhead, reduce attack surface, and stay compliant — automatically.
Alex Podobnik
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Mar 26, 2026