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

VS Code: Bridge to Kubernetes

Published Oct 23, 2020 by Isaac Johnson

I was encouraged by a colleague to checkout Microsoft’s “Bridge to Kubernetes”, a Visual Studio/Visual Studio Code extension and pattern for live debugging kubernetes services. The idea is that yo...

Hashi Waypoint

Published Oct 16, 2020 by Isaac Johnson

Hashicorp had HashiConf 2020 virtually this year. The two day conference debuted two new products, Hashi Boundaryand Hashi Waypoint. The former is an Identity at the perimeter solution and the la...

Vault on Kubernetes: Part 2 - Multiple k8s, templates and external IPs

Published Oct 6, 2020 by Isaac Johnson

Let’s keep going with what we started last week. This week I’ll show how to format secrets for various database engines, expose Vault with a public IP and load balancer and lastly how to connect m...

Vault on Kubernetes: Getting Started

Published Oct 3, 2020 by Isaac Johnson

Hashi Vault has long been a leader in secret management and has had a Kubernetes Helm Chart now for a year. I’ve been meaning to get back to Vault for some time and this week I took the time to ta...

Kubernetes Serverless: OpenFaaS

Published Sep 20, 2020 by Isaac Johnson

When reviewing Serverless Kubernetes offerings over the last weeks, several sources suggested giving OpenFaaS a second look despite being one of the newer options in the space.

Kubernetes Serverless: Kubeless

Published Sep 14, 2020 by Isaac Johnson

Kubeless is another of the popular CNCF recognized Kubernetes Serverless offerings. It’s a Bitnami supported project that has been around since late 2016. It bills itself as “a Kubernetes-native ...