Fresh/Brewed

Goodbye West

As they now demolish the massive Tomson Reuters, formerly Tomson West, formerly West Group headquarters in Eagan, I found this photo of a meeting in 2017 I got to take in the special conference room originally built for the owner/founder and not often used. Behind the panneled wall on the right was a small kitchen. If you stretch your browser window, you can see the flags on the left. Now look at this recent photo of the destruction and you can see the same flags
Gitlab Revisit: Part 1

Gitlab Revisit: Part 1

Published May 25, 2022 by Isaac Johnson

Gitlab has been steadily introducing many new features and most recently with v15.0, adding some observability. We last used it for ClickUp demo work back in 2020.

Getting Started with Loft

Getting Started with Loft

Published May 18, 2022 by Isaac Johnson

A colleague of mine recently told me about Loft.sh as a system he uses to support self-service clusters for developers.

Azure Arc for Kubernetes with Linode LKE

Azure Arc for Kubernetes with Linode LKE

Published May 11, 2022 by Isaac Johnson

We haven’t explored Arc recently. Azure Arc for Kubernetes lets us add any Kubernetes cluster into Azure to manage as if it was an AKS cluster. We can use policies, Open Service Mesh and GitOps a...

Observability with Epsagon: Part 2

Observability with Epsagon: Part 2

Published May 3, 2022 by Isaac Johnson

Two years ago, I reviewed an up-and-coming observability suite, Epsagon. At the time, as a two year old company they were a hungry up-and-coming startup. While I found their product compelling, t...

Integrating Sonar with Docker

Integrating Sonar with Docker

Published Apr 27, 2022 by Isaac Johnson

We already looked at creating dockerized tests a few weeks ago.

GitOps with Flux

GitOps with Flux

Published Apr 19, 2022 by Isaac Johnson

We’ve explored Anthos and ArgoCD for GitOps but have yet to dig into FluxCD. FluxCD is a CNCF incubating project that provides GitOps for application deployment (CD) and progressive delivery (PD)....

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