This here is the space into which I put some of the thoughts which have been gathering inside my head. Mostly mundane stuff as I am not that original

Burned by the firewall

Have you ever shut down one port too many and disabled all traffic in Asia and Europe?

Firewalls are dangerous by design and no toys

Indeed.

The dangers are implied by the name as is the case with terraform: the terrors of running terraform destroy from the wrong directory are real.

Indeed not for the faint of heart and that line of lyrics from Alicia keys comes to mind:

Yes I was burned but I called it a lesson learned.

Indeed.