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

Gitea Part 2: Actions, Runners, Mailer and more

Published Aug 3, 2023 by Isaac Johnson

In our last post we covered Gitea setup on a temporary cluster and explored the basics of Organizations and Repositories.

Gitea Part 1: Setup, Orgs and Repositories

Published Aug 1, 2023 by Isaac Johnson

I saw a post last month about the new 1.20 release of Gitea. We haven’t really looked much outside of AzDO, Github and Gitlab. Gitea fits in the Github/Gitlab space, only self-hosted and open-sou...

Github CLI and Ansible

Published Jul 27, 2023 by Isaac Johnson

I’ve known of the Github CLI for some time but have yet to really try it out. Today we will setup and use the Github CLI and then leverage it to create an ansible automation to auto-merge and auto...

Ruby and NewRelic APM

Published Jul 25, 2023 by Isaac Johnson

I have been asked about instrumenting Ruby code for New Relic a lot lately and figured now might be a good time to cover some of the scalable patterns.

Configure8: Pricing, Cost Details

Published Jul 20, 2023 by Isaac Johnson

I wanted to circle back on Configure8 now that they announced cost management features. I had a bit of inside scoop there but was under NDA. I’m guessing some of you might have wondered why I enc...

Home Lab DNS change and remediation

Published Jul 18, 2023 by Isaac Johnson

I may throw shade at XFinity a lot. I have plenty of reasons to gripe about them; for instance, I have to pay extra to use my own cable modem and extra to remove home internet data caps. That sai...