Published Feb 18, 2021 by Isaac Johnson

We’ve discussed AKV and Hashi Vault, but one simple pattern for secrets storage and decimation is to use encrypted file storage.  While not as elegant, it can be more than sufficient, fast and read...

Published Feb 10, 2021 by Isaac Johnson

Chef has been around a long time as is definitely a key player in deployment suites.  What started out as OpsCode over a decade ago is now part of Progress Software.  They have a series of integrat...

Published Feb 6, 2021 by Isaac Johnson

This is more a short story of getting nerdy with a NAS.  I wanted to figure out if I could really host a GIT repo locally on my NAS for private work or long term storage.  While I’ll be covering th...

Published Jan 29, 2021 by Isaac Johnson

There is one Hashi Tool I really haven’t dived into much and that is Nomad.  Nomad has been the Hashi product for deployments, containerized and otherwise for a while and some large companies orche...

Published Jan 20, 2021 by Isaac Johnson

Hashicorp has had the Terraform Cloud offering now for the last year.  It’s been something I really wanted to try since HC 2019.  Interest was so high at  that time, there was a wait-list but now i...

Published Jan 15, 2021 by Isaac Johnson

In Azure DevOps we’ve covered plenty with linux deployments and containerized workloads.  But at times we may need to deploy to a set of Windows hosts, especially if we need to support IIS workload...