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

Issue Collection Forms with AzDO and JIRA

Published Aug 29, 2023 by Isaac Johnson

I’ve covered issue collectors before, such as using Azure DevOps to propegate Azure Work Items and then Github Issues.

Vacation and DevDays 2023 - why the lack of posts

Published Aug 27, 2023 by Isaac Johnson

First, I really thought I could be pro-active and clever and write a lot of content up front and keep things automated. It started okay, but then after a couple manual merges threw things off, I d...

Gitlab Github and Gitea: A Comparison

Published Aug 23, 2023 by Isaac Johnson

I was asked recently by Mehdi on Mastodon about Gitlab in comparison to Github and Gitea.

OnPrem HA/DR: NAS powerdown, NFS, MariaDB and how to trash a cluster

Published Aug 16, 2023 by Isaac Johnson

Two distinct things happened:

Azure DevOps: Agent Revisit

Published Aug 10, 2023 by Isaac Johnson

It has been a while since we looked into Azure DevOps. The last post was a couple years ago when we discussed work item automations.

Homarr: An OS Dashboard with Promise

Published Aug 8, 2023 by Isaac Johnson

Homarr Dashboard is a dashboard. It’s an Open Source project created by Thomas Camlong. He seems like a pretty smart guy based on LinkedIn, knocking out his masters while doing internships around...