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

Whitesource Bolt for AzDO and Github

Published May 27, 2020 by Isaac Johnson

On recommendations from a colleague, I decided to checkout Whitesource Boltwhich was recently made free for developers and demo’ed at Microsoft Build 2020. It integrates natively with Azure DevOps...

Azure Arc for Kubernetes

Published May 21, 2020 by Isaac Johnson

Azure Arc for Kuberentes has finally gone out to public preview. Like Arc for Servers, Arc for Kubernetes let’s us add our external kubernetes clusters, be them on-prem or in other clouds into Azu...

ClickUp and Gitlab: Let's do OAuth2 (Part 2)

Published May 18, 2020 by Isaac Johnson

In our first blog entry we showed how we could create a ClickUp project, Gitlab repo and setup basic notifications. We now want to actually create a basic Oauth2 flow using NodeJS. We will create...

ClickUp, FB Workplace and Gitlab: (Part 1)

Published May 13, 2020 by Isaac Johnson

While I’ve made no bones I’m an Azure DevOps fan and use it for all my work, not everyone has the warm feelies for Microsoft as I do. So what other options are there outside the Microsoft-verse fo...

Operationalization in Day 2 Operations

Published May 4, 2020 by Isaac Johnson

In the world of Operations, there is a tenant of supportability called Operationalization. This is a method of measurement used when a tool or system moves from Proof of Concept (POC), past Early ...

Azure DevOps : Templates and Integrating Teams Notifications

Published May 1, 2020 by Isaac Johnson

Now that we have YAML pipelines, one powerful feature we’ll want to leverage is the use of templates. Templates are the YAML equivalent of Task Groups - you can take common sets of functionality a...