Published May 31, 2023 by Isaac Johnson

A lot of time I need to handle growing logs. More often than not, I’ll use suites like DataDog to ingest logs, but when I need to store right to the cloud, I have to go another route. In this blo...

Published May 26, 2023 by Isaac Johnson

I was honored to speak at Open Source North this year. I have nothing but love for the conference. However, my talk was scheduled right after lunch in one of the farthest away rooms and arguably ...

Published May 22, 2023 by Isaac Johnson

I’ve had a few primary node crashes lately, some of my own doing. One was due to me just knocking the power cord out and the battery draining. Regardless of cause, it made me realize the danger o...

Published May 17, 2023 by Isaac Johnson

A while back we looked at Kubecost as a good Open-Source tool for monitoring costs in Kubernetes. In the last year the OS version has forked into OpenCost and has had plenty of changes.

Published May 11, 2023 by Isaac Johnson

I often run AWX in Kubernetes, either on-prem K3s, AKS or GKE. It’s easy to setup the Operator and instantiation. In fact, at work, one of our SREs even built out a very slick Terraform module ju...

Published May 9, 2023 by Isaac Johnson

Today we’ll look at Uptime Kuma and Rundeck again. Unlike the last time, we’ll focus on running these via Docker on a Linux host (instead of Kubernetes). We’ll handle exposing Uptime via an “Exte...