Fresh/Brewed

This is not a sharp picture - not even that good. I was flying early in the morning friday July 19th when I realized something was really wrong. The ticket counter was in a flurry of checking lists and creating paper tickets. I would learn within 30m that Spirit Airlines was SOL in the airport and the TSA was checking my paper ticket against printed manifests. I couldn't be prouder of my own teams at work for having dug in and weathered the Crowdstrike storm - it's a testament of having skilled, available and committed SREs. By the time I landed and was back at my desk to help, the main production systems were healthy. I can't really speak to the rest - but my day wrapped later than usual friday but it was an amazing team effort and really, I couldn't be prouder of the people I work with at WellSky

MiscApps: Motivate, LOLCAT, Sniffent, Xearth, TTE

Published Aug 1, 2024 by Isaac Johnson

I had a few interesting apps and tools on the list to check out. A few of them, like lolcat, I heard mentioned on the Late Night Linux podcast which is one of my new favourite regular listens.

GCP Cloud DNS and Certificates

Published Jul 25, 2024 by Isaac Johnson

I know I cover a lot of Azure DNS (any post that covers tpk.pw). I also cover Route53 in AWS quite often (freshbrewed.science). However, as I look back, I realize I have yet to cover GCP CloudDNS.

Cluster Maintenance and Alerting

Published Jul 23, 2024 by Isaac Johnson

July of 2024 and I’m dealing with a Paper Flight ticket checked against paper manifests; And I was one of the lucky few. Many people dealt with much more – including being stuck in Hub cities with...

Python Diagrams and Graphviz

Published Jul 18, 2024 by Isaac Johnson

Recently, a colleague of mine pointed out “Diagrams as Code” from diagrams.mingrammer.com. The examples on the main page looked a lot nicer than what I usually kick out with MermaidJS so I figure ...

OS Apps: SFTPGo and Filegator

Published Jul 16, 2024 by Isaac Johnson

I’ve been meaning to get back to some Open-Source apps that would allow me to remotely upload and download files. With an eye for simplicity, I decided I would look at SFTPGo and Filegator as both...

Triggering Ansible: Part 2: Pubsub, CloudRun, EventArc, Datadog, Azure Event Hubs, Dapr and more

Published Jul 11, 2024 by Isaac Johnson

Today we’ll pick up where we left off last time on triggering AWX (Ansible) jobs with a variety of tools. In last weeks post, we covered Rundeck, AWS SQS and Lambdas and Azure DevOps webhooks.