That image was taken in the Honey Island Swamp during a Cajun Encounters Swamp Tour in Louisiana last week. According to the captain, it's the tree used as the model for the Wishing Tree in Disney's Princess and the Frog. I usually try and post twice a week, but our family vacation slowed me down a bit so I just got the one out on KubeDNS.
Feedback Forms: Moving to triggered GH Actions
Published Mar 3, 2023 by Isaac Johnson
Earlier this week, we covered updating Azure DevOps webhook triggered pipelines to update Azure Work Items and create a Github Issue. The goal was to update our flows to start to use Github Issues...
Feedback Forms: Azure Work Items and Github Issues
Published Feb 28, 2023 by Isaac Johnson
I’ve used Azure DevOps for years now and, over time, have moved most of my workloads to Github. The outstanding part is, and has been, Azure DevOps Work Items. Work Item management in AzDO is jus...
Ansible AWX: Automating K3s Refresh, Istio, Cert-Manager and AzureDNS
Published Feb 24, 2023 by Isaac Johnson
Today we’ll revisit using Ansible (AWX) to respin and on-prem Kubernetes cluster (K3s). We are not only going to testing creating a K3s cluster without Traefik, but we’ll tackle creating and testi...
Hashi Vault on K8s with MFA
Published Feb 21, 2023 by Isaac Johnson
Hashi Vault is a robust secrets service that we can use many different ways; as a SaaS offering (HCP Vault), marketplace option in our cloud provider or host it ourselves. Today we’ll setup Vault ...
Blogging Platforms you should know: Dev.to, Hashnode, DZone, Blogger, and Post.news
Published Feb 16, 2023 by Isaac Johnson
Recently in a work discussion around blogging, I was asked about dev.to and Hashnode. Today I’ll speak about using them as well as Dzone, Post, and Blogger
Github Workflows with OIDC Cloud Access: Secrets without Secrets
Published Feb 14, 2023 by Isaac Johnson
Recently, my colleague at Github pointed out that my method for accessing GCP and Azure was fine, but perhaps a bit dated. There are new ways using OpenID Connect that do not require one to create...