Published Apr 13, 2023 by Isaac Johnson

I was reviewing some Open Source monitoring solutions recently when I got turned on to Zabbix. I was surprised this hadn’t come across my path earlier. It’s been out since 2005 and is a really st...

Published Apr 11, 2023 by Isaac Johnson

Cast.ai came up in a search for Open-Source Cost Management tools (that I have yet to try). While it isn’t open-source, at least as of a couple years ago, the founder promised to make it free for ...

Published Apr 6, 2023 by Isaac Johnson

I recently was admitted into the Google Bard trial. I felt it would be a great time to contrast Bard with ChatGPT and Bing.

Published Apr 4, 2023 by Isaac Johnson

Ran Cohen, CTO/Co-Founder of ConfigU asked me to take a look at their offering; ConfigU, “Configuration Management as a Service”. I’m always game to check out new DevOps, SCM and SRE tools and if ...

Published Mar 30, 2023 by Isaac Johnson

Monday, I covered setting up Terraform to fire up an Ansible playbook during Infrastructure creation time. While that worked fine, we ideally would like to keep our playbooks in GIT.

Published Mar 27, 2023 by Isaac Johnson

We know that we can use Terraform to build out repeatable infrastructure with code. However, we often have to solve provisioning in a second pass. That can be using Packer or Ansible or other too...