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

Terraform and Azure DevOps: Awesome.

Published Mar 5, 2021 by Isaac Johnson

It’s always fun when two things I really like come together. I was thrilled to see the news out of Ignite from one my favourite companies, Hashicorp that it added support for one of my favourite to...

Revisiting Kubernetes and KEDA

Published Feb 26, 2021 by Isaac Johnson

Let’s revisit KEDA (Kubernetes Event Drive Autoscaling) and Azure Functions. We looked into this last March and did a hello world sample using Dockerhub and a simple function. Since then, Azure F...

Azure DevOps: Secrets in Files

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...

Chef: Getting Started

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...

Private SSH Git with Azure DevOps

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...

Nomad: Getting Started

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...