That image was taken in the Honey Island Swamp during a Cajun Encounters Swamp Tour in Louisiana last week. According to the captain, it's the tree used as the model for the Wishing Tree in Disney's Princess and the Frog. I usually try and post twice a week, but our family vacation slowed me down a bit so I just got the one out on KubeDNS.
Smart Plugs with PyKasa: Part 2 - adding secrets, build files and helm
Published Jan 19, 2023 by Isaac Johnson
Back in November, I wrote about Kasa Plugs and PyKasa. In that post I covered how to use Kasa Smart Plugs with lights as webhook triggered indicators. To make the updates, I forked the Python-Kas...
Instana: Part 2: GCP, Cloud Services, Databases, Hosts, Monitoring and Alerting
Published Jan 17, 2023 by Isaac Johnson
In the last post we covered setup, serverless and Open Telemetry. Today we’ll really dive into Alerts with a focus on Teams and PagerDuty. We’ll look at Instana on a cloud hosted cluster (AKS) an...
VIDEO: Containerized Mainframe code with Dapr, OpenTelemetry, Datadog and GKE
Published Jan 13, 2023 by Isaac Johnson
After a great conversation with Diagrid I was asked to speak about containerizing Mainframe Code (COBOL) and using Dapr.io to orchestrate in Kubernetes.
Instana: Part 1: Setup, K8s, Website and Open Telemetry
Published Jan 10, 2023 by Isaac Johnson
Today we will dig into creating an Instana account and setting up Host and Kubernetes monitors. We’ll look into serverless (AWS Lambdas) and tracing through Open Telemetry.
Gear 360 - Converting Spherical 360 video
Published Jan 5, 2023 by Isaac Johnson
This is just a quick how-to since Samsung has seemingly abondened the Gear360.
Dynatrace Revisit (3/3): Production, Testing, PagerDuty, Mobile App and Buy-Now
Published Jan 3, 2023 by Isaac Johnson
We’ve covered much of Dynatrace in our last two posts, but we have yet to use in production. Today we’ll install into a primary cluster and test.