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

GKE Autopilot ASM and Vault

Published Aug 16, 2022 by Isaac Johnson

I’ve had a few questions come up recently about how Istio and Vault play together. We know that Consul and Vault, both Hashicorp Products, work quite well together, but can we blend the commercial...

Codefresh.io and Argo CD: part 2

Published Aug 9, 2022 by Isaac Johnson

In part 2, let’s try and marry Loft.sh and Codefresh. We will try as an endpoint for Argo and as a hosted runtime.

Codefresh.io and Argo CD

Published Aug 2, 2022 by Isaac Johnson

Recently, Codefresh launched a hosted Gitops solution backed by ArgoCD. I became aware of their latest offering from TechCrunch who interviewed their COSO Dan Garfied. Codefresh first launched a ...

Dapr Revisit: PubSub

Published Jul 26, 2022 by Isaac Johnson

Dapr.io is a framework we have covered multiple times before. However, it has continued to improve and evolve over time.

Cloud Custodian

Published Jul 19, 2022 by Isaac Johnson

Cloud Custodian is an open-source tool for managing and enforcing policy in the cloud. It’s been around for a while. Releases in Github go back to April 2016. Today c7n can be used for AWS, Azure...

Sendgrid and Datadog

Published Jul 15, 2022 by Isaac Johnson

One question that I’ve had to discuss lately is how to watch Sendgrid events. If you are in AWS, you likely use SES. But the other clouds generally rely on Sendgrid for a cloud based email service.