Fresh/Brewed

Goodbye West

As they now demolish the massive Tomson Reuters, formerly Tomson West, formerly West Group headquarters in Eagan, I found this photo of a meeting in 2017 I got to take in the special conference room originally built for the owner/founder and not often used. Behind the panneled wall on the right was a small kitchen. If you stretch your browser window, you can see the flags on the left. Now look at this recent photo of the destruction and you can see the same flags
Github CLI and Ansible

Github CLI and Ansible

Published Jul 27, 2023 by Isaac Johnson

I’ve known of the Github CLI for some time but have yet to really try it out. Today we will setup and use the Github CLI and then leverage it to create an ansible automation to auto-merge and auto...

Ruby and NewRelic APM

Ruby and NewRelic APM

Published Jul 25, 2023 by Isaac Johnson

I have been asked about instrumenting Ruby code for New Relic a lot lately and figured now might be a good time to cover some of the scalable patterns.

Configure8: Pricing, Cost Details

Configure8: Pricing, Cost Details

Published Jul 20, 2023 by Isaac Johnson

I wanted to circle back on Configure8 now that they announced cost management features. I had a bit of inside scoop there but was under NDA. I’m guessing some of you might have wondered why I enc...

Home Lab DNS change and remediation

Home Lab DNS change and remediation

Published Jul 18, 2023 by Isaac Johnson

I may throw shade at XFinity a lot. I have plenty of reasons to gripe about them; for instance, I have to pay extra to use my own cable modem and extra to remove home internet data caps. That sai...

Ngrok Ingress Controller for K8s

Ngrok Ingress Controller for K8s

Published Jul 13, 2023 by Isaac Johnson

I saw a recent announcement that Ngrok now has a native Ingress controller for K8s. I actually really like Ngrok already for making an easy to use forwarding dynamic DNS standalone ingress agent. ...

Portainer.io Part 2: Kubernetes, Licenses, OAuth and more

Portainer.io Part 2: Kubernetes, Licenses, OAuth and more

Published Jul 11, 2023 by Isaac Johnson

Last week we dug into Portainer covering the CE and BE editions, speaking to Registries and provisioning clusters.

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