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 Containerized Nexus

Published Jan 12, 2020 by Isaac Johnson

Last month we looked at Artifactory, both Commercial and OSS and how it could be used to host artifacts and containers. Let’s also look at the other big artifact management suite, Sonatype Nexus a...

K3os, a promising start

Published Dec 22, 2019 by Isaac Johnson

Rancher, best known for their flagship product Rancher, also makes a couple of distributions of kubernetes. The one we’ve covered the most here is k3s, but they also make RKE (Rancher Kubernetes E...

Distributed Artifactory and Kubernetes

Published Dec 3, 2019 by Isaac Johnson

I sat in a meeting recently discussing the merits of an artifact deployment strategy. One of the leads of the team on the phone wasn’t sure if this strategy would actually work and asked “why don’...

LKE: A solid k8s offering from Linode

Published Nov 26, 2019 by Isaac Johnson

Linode announced LKE this year, and while still in private beta, it’s looking quite good for a release any day now (they are actively updatingas I write). Just this past week I was invited to try ...

Getting Started: Skaffold, a k8s build framework

Published Nov 13, 2019 by Isaac Johnson

Skaffold is a recent project from Google recently covered in an article by CBR). It is meant to be a simple pipeline tool for building container images. It dates back to January 3 2018 by Matt Ri...

Lenovo Flex 6 14" 2-in-1 : A Developers Review

Published Oct 28, 2019 by Isaac Johnson

I got permission. It was so much as a need as a want - to get a personal laptop again as my last, an i3 based chromebook had moved on to my eldest and I like having a laptop that isn’t from my empl...