Automation

This is Part 2 of “The Centaur’s Toolkit” series. In Part 1, we covered the four collaboration modes for AI pair programming. Now we apply that framework to higher-stakes territory: security. You’ve embraced AI pair programming. You’re using Strategist mode for architecture, Editor mode for refinement, and you feel like a genuine Centaur. Then your manager asks you to build a security tool. Suddenly, the stakes feel different. In regular coding, an AI-suggested bug might waste a few hours of debugging. In security, an AI-suggested bug might become a vulnerability that sits in production for months. The cost of being wrong isn’t just time. It’s trust, data, and potentially your users’ safety. ...

Research Disclaimer This tutorial is based on: Resilience4j v2.1+ (Java resilience library) Polly v8.0+ (C# resilience library) Istio Service Mesh v1.20+ (traffic management, observability) OpenTelemetry v1.25+ (distributed tracing standard) Chaos Mesh v2.6+ (Kubernetes chaos engineering) Prometheus v2.47+ (monitoring and alerting) Grafana v10.0+ (visualization and dashboards) TensorFlow v2.15+ (machine learning for failure prediction) All architectural patterns follow industry best practices from the Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) discipline and the Twelve-Factor App methodology. Code examples have been tested in production-like environments as of January 2025. ...

Update (January 2026): The workflow patterns and concepts in this tutorial remain valid. If you’re following along, consider updating actions/checkout@main to a pinned version like actions/checkout@v4, and verify the latest Terraform Kubernetes provider version for your cluster’s API compatibility. As I’ve been working with Terraform more and more these days, I felt that it would be a good idea to move away from some of my other hacked together solutions in favor of Terraform. My next logical step was to focus on kubernetes management with terraform and github actions. This idea builds upon my previous Using Github to Manage Kubernetes article. As I started down this path, I realized that I needed a way to manage my state file. This is why I thought it was important to tackle the configuration I posted in Managing Your Terraform State File. ...