Chilepluto is a personal technical-notes site focused on practical engineering, automation, cloud governance, platform engineering, and local AI workflows.

The site is written by Sean and collects repeatable notes, examples, and troubleshooting patterns from hands-on infrastructure and platform engineering work. The goal is to publish clear technical references that are useful when building, operating, securing, or debugging real systems.

Articles favour practical engineering notes from real platform, automation, and infrastructure work. They focus on repeatable patterns, operational checklists, implementation trade-offs, and safe public examples.

Focus areas

Chilepluto covers practical topics across:

• Cloud governance and platform enablement
• Microsoft Azure architecture and landing zones
• Azure DevOps and infrastructure as code
• Terraform patterns for repeatable deployments
• FinOps practices for cloud cost visibility and accountability
• VMware infrastructure, operations, and migration considerations
• PowerShell administration and automation
• Windows, WSL, and developer workstation workflows
• Python examples for data, automation, and AI experiments
• Running and testing local AI models on personal hardware

Cloud governance and Azure

A major focus of this site is how to design and operate cloud platforms in a controlled, repeatable, and secure way.

Topics may include landing zone design, management groups, policy, identity, networking, logging, security operations, deployment pipelines, and operational guardrails. The aim is to turn cloud governance from static documentation into practical engineering patterns that teams can actually use.

Start with the curated Azure Landing Zones reading path.

Terraform and Azure DevOps

Infrastructure as code is a recurring theme on Chilepluto. Posts in this area focus on how to structure Terraform, pipelines, modules, environments, reviews, and release workflows so that infrastructure changes are predictable and auditable.

The emphasis is on simple patterns that can scale: clear state management, reusable modules, environment separation, naming standards, validation, and deployment checks.

VMware and hybrid infrastructure

Chilepluto also covers traditional and hybrid infrastructure topics, including VMware operations, workload migration planning, disaster recovery, identity integration, and the practical realities of running platforms across cloud and on-premises environments.

These notes are intended for engineers who still need to bridge modern cloud practices with existing enterprise infrastructure.

FinOps

FinOps content focuses on the operating model, reporting, tagging, accountability, and engineering practices needed to make cloud costs visible and manageable.

The goal is not just to reduce spend, but to help teams understand where money is going, why it is being spent, and what technical or operational decisions can improve value.

Local AI

Chilepluto includes notes on running local AI tools and open-source models, especially where they intersect with developer workflows, automation, and personal productivity.

Topics may include hardware selection, model management, quantisation, local inference, Python tooling, and practical experiments that can be repeated on a workstation or home lab.

Writing style

Posts are intended to be:

• Practical rather than theoretical
• Repeatable where possible
• Clear about assumptions and prerequisites
• Focused on commands, configuration, checks, and troubleshooting
• Useful for engineers building and operating enterprise platforms
• Safe for public sharing, using examples rather than sensitive environment details

Contact

Corrections, suggestions, and broken-link reports are welcome at [email protected].

Please do not send credentials, private keys, internal hostnames, sensitive screenshots, or confidential environment details.