Project
Connected vehicle data ingestion platform. Hundreds of vehicles streaming telemetry to Azure Event Hubs, processed by workers on AKS and dedicated VMs.
Infrastructure scope
- AKS cluster for stateless processing services
- Azure Event Hubs for high-throughput ingestion
- VM scale sets for GPU-adjacent batch processing workloads
- Private endpoints and NSGs for network isolation
- Azure Key Vault for secrets, accessed via Managed Identity
Tooling
Terraform for all Azure resources. Ansible for post-provision configuration on VMs — package installation, systemd services, certificate distribution. Jenkins as the CI/CD backbone with a shared library for Terraform plan/apply steps.
What I'd do differently
Replace Ansible+Jenkins with something GitOps-native. Ansible is powerful but the execution model (push from CI) is hard to reconcile with drift detection. ArgoCD or Flux would handle the Kubernetes side cleanly; the VM footprint could shrink if we moved workloads to AKS.