Published Sep 22, 2021 by Isaac Johnson

I make no bones about being a Datadog fan. I use it personally. Recently I had some health issues with my cluster and leveraged Datadog to help debug and solve them. Since I think this is a prett...

Published Sep 15, 2021 by Isaac Johnson

In our last article we covered getting started with Packer, Linux and Azure. Now that we have the fundamentals, let’s work out some more useful examples leveraging packer.

Published Sep 8, 2021 by Isaac Johnson

Hashi Packer is the primary tool we use for creating virtual machine images and is one of the few tools at Hashi that is purely OSS (has no “Enterprise” offering). It released 1.0 in 2017 but has ...

Published Sep 1, 2021 by Isaac Johnson

In our last blog we worked out Github Pages and blogging with jekyll and Github sites. But what if you have a blog already, such as this one in Ghost. How can we migrate and will it be benificial...

Published Aug 24, 2021 by Isaac Johnson

I’ve been using Ghost to blog for some amount of time, but recently I was turned onto Jekyll for blogging with markdown.  More to the point, Jekyll is the backend used by Github Pages blogging.  We...

Published Aug 18, 2021 by Isaac Johnson

Kuma,which is a Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) sponsored service mesh, is the OSS backend of Kong Mesh. From the docs for mTLS we also see it is one of the implementers of the Spiffe univ...