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

Upgrading AKS - A Quick Primer

Published Jun 23, 2023 by Isaac Johnson

This topic of AKS Upgrades has come up a few times for me lately. Questions around how to upgrade, what is affected, how to check and rotate SP IDs. I figured it might be nice to just write it up...

Wordpress in Kubernetes

Published Jun 20, 2023 by Isaac Johnson

I know a lot of people started blogging with Wordpress. Honestly, I started with a modified version of a BBS Perl script. But I know for a long time Wordpress was king of blogging.

Frappe ERPNext: ERP maybe?

Published Jun 15, 2023 by Isaac Johnson

I had a note to checkout Frappe cloud and ERPNext. The idea is it is an open-source Enterprise Resource Planning suite that is easy to install and host. We will try and set it up and explore the ...

Configure8: Amazing service dashboards

Published Jun 13, 2023 by Isaac Johnson

I found Configure8 when searching for other service catalogue applications. It is a relatively new SaaS offering that came into existence around 2021. It has a surprising number of features in a ...

Lyft Clutch

Published Jun 9, 2023 by Isaac Johnson

I found out about Lyft Clutch when searching for something completely different.

Backstage.io: Part 1

Published Jun 7, 2023 by Isaac Johnson

I saw Backstage.io demo’ed at OSN 2023 this year during the Medtronic presentation by Brad Schlict and Derek Winters. I thought it was pretty slick and would solve a lot of issues I have, and, per...