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

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...