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

OpenTF and Pulumi: Workflow Automations

Published Oct 10, 2023 by Isaac Johnson

Today we will focus on updating a common Github Runner container image with Pulumi and OpenTofu binaries. I use this ghRunnerImage in my SummerWind-based RunnerDeployments hosted in my on-prem Kub...

Datadog Cost Integration

Published Oct 5, 2023 by Isaac Johnson

This summer Datadog came out with Cloud Cost Management as a new feature to its Observability suite. Today we’ll setup Cost Costs with AWS and Azure and see what we can accomplish. We’ll ingest s...

Pulumi Part 1: Setup, GCP Stack, Dashboards

Published Oct 3, 2023 by Isaac Johnson

Pulumi is a Seattle-based company whose Open Source SDK is in the same Infrastructure as Code space as Ansible and Terraform. However, I might argue their product is more extensible with many lang...

OpenTofu - the Terraform Fork

Published Sep 28, 2023 by Isaac Johnson

If you aren’t deeply involved in spinning up Cloud Infrastructure or creating Infrastructure as Code (IaC), then perhaps you wouldn’t be aware of a rather monumental change that happened August 10th.

GCP Infrastructure Manager with OS Terraform

Published Sep 26, 2023 by Isaac Johnson

There has been much discussion in the last month about Hashicorp moving from Mozilla Public License v2.0 to the Business Source License (BSL) v1.1 for all future products and some libraries.

Cloud Budgets and Alerts

Published Sep 21, 2023 by Isaac Johnson

I’ve spoken of budgets and cost monitors before such as ConfigU, Kubecost, OpenCost and Cast.ai. In almost all cases, these are designed to look at your overall cloud spend and highlight overspend...