Infrastructure engineering · Málaga · EN / ES
I'm Luan Gonzalez. For seventeen years I have designed, migrated and automated production environments, from VMware and Hyper-V to OpenShift, RHEL and Ansible. I work remotely, in English and Spanish, with fixed scope and price.
RHEL and AAP lifecycle review
VMware exit assessment
AAP 2.4 · Red Hat
Out of maintenance
vSphere 8 · Broadcom
End of general support
The next step
5 to 10 days
€3,000 to €6,000
Ansible automation sprint
Technologies I work with
01Services
Three formats with fixed scope and price.
Prices exclude VAT. I invoice as a self-employed professional in Spain.
Running RHEL or AAP?
Versions, end of support, patching and playbooks.
· AAP 2.4
AAP 2.4 left maintenance on 30 June 2026. Red Hat announcement
Facing a VMware renewal?
Inventory, workload classification, comparison of targets with OpenShift Virtualization as the main option, and a wave plan with a pilot.
· vSphere 8
vSphere 8 leaves general support on 11 October 2027. Broadcom article
Need something else with Linux, Red Hat, OpenShift or Ansible? Write to me and I'll tell you whether it fits.
02Method
Free. You describe the environment and we see whether it fits.
Scope, deliverables, timeline and a fixed price before we start.
Interim deliveries and read-only access wherever possible.
One hour to present the results and decide the next step.
03Technologies
17 years in infrastructure, from VMware and Hyper-V virtualization to OpenShift, RHEL and Ansible. I know VMware from the inside, from when it was my daily work, and since 2018 I have worked with Red Hat OpenShift and Linux in enterprise cloud infrastructure.
More about meWeb hosting on Red Hat and, from 2010, VMware and Hyper-V high-availability virtualization: vSphere, vCenter, NSX, vCloud Director.
Red Hat OpenShift and Kubernetes consulting, with Docker and Elastic Stack.
RHEL and OpenShift administration in enterprise cloud infrastructure, on bare-metal and virtual servers.
04Proof
Two products of my own that I designed and built alone, from infrastructure to application. They show that I can deliver and operate a system end to end. They are not services I sell.
Pre-launch
A platform for shops to sell surplus food to consumers: mobile app, web, store dashboard and payments. It runs on AWS development and test environments and is not yet live to the public.
Regulation to be defined
A fintech and gaming marketplace that combines real-money poker with social investing: investors back players they choose by their track record, and profits are split between investor and player automatically. Real-time tables, payments and settlement. The regulatory process is still to be defined.
The infrastructure and DevOps side, done by me: infrastructure as code and repeatable deployments, CI/CD pipelines, authentication with Cognito and least-privilege AWS access, and logging, monitoring and cost control.
05Limits
I don't offer 24/7 on-call, migrations of thousands of virtual machines or custom application development.
I don't administer vSphere 8 or VMware Cloud Foundation today: my VMware experience runs to 2018.
I don't resell licences or take vendor commissions, so if another platform fits better than OpenShift Virtualization, I will tell you.
06Questions
Remotely, under a written contract that fixes scope, deliverables and mutual confidentiality. I invoice as a self-employed professional in Spain, with 30-day payment terms. Prices on this site exclude VAT.
I work remotely, with read-only access wherever possible.
Yes. I work in English and Spanish, in the Spain and Ireland time zones.
If it involves Linux, Red Hat, OpenShift or Ansible, write to me and I'll tell you whether it fits.
07Blog
AAP 2.4 left maintenance on 30 June 2026. What changes, what your options are (upgrade to 2.6 or extend with ELS) and what to check first.
AWX is the community project that Ansible Automation Platform builds on. What changes in support, lifecycle and upgrades, and when AWX is enough.
What to check before patching a RHEL fleet with Red Hat Satellite 6.18 and AAP 2.6: requirements, installable errata, remote execution, batches and inventory.
08Contact