Automation on Robert Terakedis

The $300K Spreadsheet: How Manual Provisioning Became a Liability

Sat, 18 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Last year I got pulled into a project where the team was drowning in spreadsheets. Not the good kind, but rather the unfortunate kind: manual user provisioning lists, copy-paste operations between systems, and a recurring cloud bill that kept climbing because of over-provisioned resources sitting idle.

The kicker? Along with all the manual inefficiences, we incurred $300,000/year in overprovisioned cloud spend. And that was before we even talked about the staff time or the risk of things breaking when a step in the process was missed.

Postman Pre-Request Script for Docebo API

Wed, 22 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000

I've recently been involved with a project at work to modernize the processes around Docebo, our Learning Management System (LMS). A significant portion of this project involves workflow automation and passing data/events between multiple systems. We accomplish this automation using webhooks and a number of API calls (which you can view at Docebo's API Browser). Early in the process, I stumbled onto the Docebo Community post about Using Postman (and the on-demand Community Coaching Session) which contained a downloadable Postman API collection. This was a GREAT starting point, but the collection used an interactive login to get oAuth2 tokens. I wanted to automate the authentication process and avoid the interactive logins when I was testing against our sandbox LMS instance.

Updated GitHub Actions to Publish Hugo Site From Private to Public Repo

Tue, 27 Oct 2020 00:00:00 +0000

When I restarted my blogging journey last year, I went with Hugo to generate a static website hosted as a GitHub Pages site. As mentioned, Blogger and WordPress always suffered recurring problems, and maintenance with WordPress still turned into a time suck due to its complexity. By comparison, GitHub has been a nearly painless hosting provider, and the way I've configured it has allowed me to keep drafts hidden by staging in a private repository.

Using GitHub Actions to Publish Hugo Site From Private to Public Repo

Fri, 14 Aug 2020 00:00:00 +0000

I restarted my blogging journey earlier this year when I started looking into ~~Jekyll~~ Hugo to generate a static website. I had past experience with Blogger and Wordpress, but frankly had periodic problems with both platforms that ended up being a time suck. As it has been, Hugo has been a simplistic publishing method and GitHub a reliable (and FREE) hosting provider. Yet, my desire to keep my drafts private (.e.g the use of 2 separate repositories) has created a small overhead in that I have to build and manually commit the website changes to the public repository to make them live.

Another GitHub Actions Update - Using Deploy Keys Instead Of Personal Access Tokens

Fri, 06 Mar 2020 00:00:00 +0000

When I restarted my blogging journey in 2020, I switched from Jekyll to Hugo hosted in GitHub pages. It's been a relatively painless journey, and kudos to GitHub as a rock-solid hosting provider. I've covered it before (Initial Setup and First Update), but I've been incredibly happy with private-to-public publishing workflow that allows me to keep drafts and work-in-progress hidden. That said, a recent comment gave me reason to make another update to the Workflow. Read on for more detail...