Fresh/Brewed

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

Dockerizing Tests: Part 2

Published Apr 5, 2022 by Isaac Johnson

In our last post, we covered how to containerize our tests as part of a docker build. Today we will continue that idea to see how we can move the building of images off our local systems into the ...

Dockerizing Tests

Published Apr 5, 2022 by Isaac Johnson

In a little over a month, I’ll be presenting at OSN on “Ditching your CICD” in favour of GitOps. The first piece of that puzzle is to see how we do not need a Continuous Integration system to invo...

Cloud Run

Published Mar 29, 2022 by Isaac Johnson

Google Cloud’s Cloud Run is a fully managed container-based function environment introduced around three years ago. It allows developers to build containerized applications with cloud build then s...

Waypoint: Part Deux

Published Mar 22, 2022 by Isaac Johnson

The last time we looked at Hashi Waypoint it had just been released. While interesting, it was somewhat strange to see a new CI/CD tool come to the game, especially since Hashi tends to put out sy...

Uptime Kuma

Published Mar 16, 2022 by Isaac Johnson

Uptime Kuma is a very small yet full featured open source tool one can use to monitor and notify just about anything. It covers much of the same ground that Nagios or Site24x7 might cover. I foun...

Mitigating SPOF: Migrating and Replicating Container Images

Published Mar 8, 2022 by Isaac Johnson

Recently my cluster took another nose dive. This really panicked me as I cannot blog (easily) without it - my private Github runners are hosted in my cluster and moreover the container registry (h...