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

GlusterFS

Published Sep 20, 2022 by Isaac Johnson

GlusterFS is a free, scalable and open-source network filesystem we can use to keep paths synchronized across systems. Today we’ll setup GlusterFS on an on-prem 3 node cluster and then use it in a...

On-prem k8s storage: GCP Cloud Storage Buckets

Published Sep 14, 2022 by Isaac Johnson

Today we’ll dig into some more ways we can leverage Cloud Storage to back our on-prem Kubernetes Persistent Volumes (and Persistent Volume Claims). I’ll cover GCP and more using a few different me...

On-prem k8s storage: S3FS + Longhorn with AWS, Azure and Linode

Published Sep 6, 2022 by Isaac Johnson

Today we’ll dig into some ways we can leverage Cloud Storage to back our on-prem Kubernetes Persistant Volumes (and Persistant Volume Claims). I’ll cover AWS, Azure and Linode using a few differen...

On-prem k8s storage: Rook vs Longhorn

Published Aug 31, 2022 by Isaac Johnson

Rook and Longhorn are two CNCF backed projects for providing storage to Kubernetes. Rook is a way to add storage via Ceph or NFS in a Kubernetes cluster. Longhorn similarly is a storage class provi...

Containerized Azure Functions with Azure DevOps

Published Aug 26, 2022 by Isaac Johnson

Recently I had a discussion with some colleagues about Azure Functions leveraging containers. There was a good discussion on how to build and scale them leveraging Azure DevOps.

AWX in Kubernetes: Part 2: Automating Setup

Published Aug 23, 2022 by Isaac Johnson

Several times recently I have looked to automate the configuration of AWX, the OSS version of Ansible Tower. As a followup to my last post on AWX in Kubernetes, we will now configure the AWX setup...