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

Dapr Part 4: Service Discovery and Bindings

Published Apr 15, 2021 by Isaac Johnson

We’ve covered pubsub and secrets in detail. Daprcan also provide service-to-service discovery and routing much like istio (less the encryption). Dapr’s binding component allows us to route to exter...

Dapr Part 3: Digging into Secrets

Published Apr 9, 2021 by Isaac Johnson

Dapr provides a basic but very functional secrets abstraction component we can use in our services. In our last topic we furthered the pub/sub knowledge with a custom perl subscriber. Today we wi...

Dapr Part 2: Sprinkle a little Perl

Published Apr 3, 2021 by Isaac Johnson

We started out last week with Dapr and followed the getting started tutorials. At that time we experimented with local containerized installs of Dapr as well as Kubernetes through AKS. This week ...

Dapr: Getting started

Published Mar 26, 2021 by Isaac Johnson

A colleague of mine has several times asked me about Dapr and what I thought. Daprfinally released a 1.0 in February this year and I figured it was time to give it a look.

K0s: Mirantis' tiny k8s distro

Published Mar 19, 2021 by Isaac Johnson

I was chatting with some folks from Mirantis about Lens and some of their offerings and they highly encouraged me to try out K0s (“K Zeros”). This week I took some time to dig into it. My goal was ...

LogDNA: Logging and Alerting

Published Mar 13, 2021 by Isaac Johnson

LogDNA has been around about six years and I became familiar with them at DevOps Days in Minneapolis 3 years ago. Their offering has matured a lot since then and it was time to give it a proper look.