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

Getting Started with KEDA

Published Mar 14, 2020 by Isaac Johnson

A few weeks ago, a coworker of mine posted to our slack this medium articleabout KEDA and Kafka.I wasn’t familiar with Kubernetes-based Event Driven Autoscaler (KEDA)and wanted to find out more. It...

K8s and Redis; a tale of Layer 4 Ingress

Published Mar 4, 2020 by Isaac Johnson

One thing that Kubernetes does particularly well is Layer 7 routing with Ingress. If you have an HTTP/HTTPS service, there are a slew of tutorials out there as well as best practices for routing t...

Github Actions with Pi4 k3s

Published Feb 26, 2020 by Isaac Johnson

In our last post we covered using a k3s on a Raspberry Pi4 to serve up build agents for Azure DevOps. But what about those who use Github? Github has a robust yaml based build system with actions...

K3S, Pi4, and Azure DevOps

Published Feb 16, 2020 by Isaac Johnson

We’ve explored Rancher’s K3s before as well as K3OS. It’s a pretty handy lightweight kubernetes environment. However, past attempts to make my Pi3b’s proper containerized build agent pools ultima...

CIVO Kubernetes: a solid managed k3s offering

Published Feb 9, 2020 by Isaac Johnson

I love exploring alternative cloud providers. A new one I had not been aware of until recently is CIVO. They are a smaller cloud company focused on DevOps based out of Stevenage, Hertfordshire in...

Self Hosted Container Registry in Kubernetes

Published Jan 26, 2020 by Isaac Johnson

When using kubernetes, one piece that always goes hand-in-hand is the container registry. often when we talk about bringing up a cluster, there is the implicit assumption that the registry is “some...