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

Ubuntu Multipass: Part Deux (k3s and PVC)

Published Oct 22, 2019 by Isaac Johnson

K3s on Multipass is pretty nice, but we have to add storage to make it useful. Let’s add StorageOS to provide a Persistant Volume system.

Ubuntu Multipass - Better than Docker?

Published Oct 6, 2019 by Isaac Johnson

Multipass is billed as a “mini-cloud” for Mac and Windows machines. . It’s ubuntu’s play at a small virtual machine environment akin to Docker. How well does it perform and can we run Rancher’s k3...

DevOps Stategery: IaC Pipelines

Published Sep 25, 2019 by Isaac Johnson

One question that often comes up is how do we properly create Infrastructure as Code. While in a way this is akin to asking which political party is best or is cilantro tasty, there are patterns I...

Let's try JFrog Enterprise+ CICD

Published Sep 20, 2019 by Isaac Johnson

One of the more interesting offerings that was presented at HashiConf 2019 came from the JFrog vendor booth - makers of Artifactory, one of the two leading binary artifact storage and dissemination...

On a Personal Note...

Published Sep 8, 2019 by Isaac Johnson

This is just a quick update to let y’all know I’ve not had quite as many updates lately because I’ve been out at clients doing DevOps workshops. In fact, the last I was at last week was a very coo...

K3S on Win 10 WSL 2

Published Sep 8, 2019 by Isaac Johnson

In our last post we dived into k3s - running it from a docker container with k3d and from both Pi (ARM64) and Google Cloud. But what about from Windows? Is it possible to spin a reasonable cluster...