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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
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
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
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
Cloud
How We Built a Weekly AWS Cost Digest Powered by AI
Learn how NextLink Labs built an AI-powered AWS cost digest to automate cloud expense tracking, identify anomalies, and optimize spending with weekly insights.
Alex Podobnik
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Mar 19, 2026
DevOps
Application Performance Monitoring: A Strategic Guide to APM Maturity
Ensure your applications are fast, reliable, and user-centric with our strategic guide to Application Performance Monitoring (APM). Learn how to move beyond basic metrics to drive real business value,...
Jordan Saunders
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Mar 13, 2026
Cybersecurity
Using Elastic Cloud To Manage AWS CloudWatch Logs
Creating an efficient process for storing application logs is critical for cybersecurity and compliance. In this guide, we walk you through integrating you
Colin Soleim
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Aug 24, 2021
DevOps
How GitOps Goes Beyond Kubernetes
With improved automation and less risk, GitOps is quickly becoming the workflow of choice for infrastructure automation. And for GitLab, the approach to Gi
DevOps
Beta APIs Disappearing from Kubernetes v1.22
Thinking about moving on to Kubernetes v1.22? Before you do, check out the list of beta APIs that will be removed -- not deprecated -- in the new version.
Jordan Saunders
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Jul 19, 2021
Cloud
Handling Auth in EKS Clusters: Setting Up Kubernetes User Access Using AWS IAM
Deploying a shiny new EKS cluster running the latest version of Kubernetes isn’t the hardest task in the world. On the other hand, setting up the authentic