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 K3S

Published Aug 27, 2019 by Isaac Johnson

With all the kubernetes talk lately, it caught my eye when k3s started to make its way into my news feeds. After a conference seeing plenty of k3s stickers, i felt it was time to dig into it.

Kubernetes Aspen Mesh

Published Aug 19, 2019 by Isaac Johnson

Aspen Meshis a supported distribution of Istio with hosted Graphana and Prometheus among other features. It has an “Enterprise” offering “coming soon” but for now has a free public beta. I became...

Automating AKS Deployments like a Boss: Part 9 (AKS AAD Refinements)

Published Aug 8, 2019 by Isaac Johnson

In our last post we covered setting up AKS with AAD integration as well as namespaces and service accounts. While we did launch the cluster with Terraform, almost all of the post configuration was...

Automating AKS Deployments like a Boss: Part 8 (AKS and AAD)

Published Jul 26, 2019 by Isaac Johnson

In recent weeks I’ve been helping several clients with AKS and RBAC. Specifically, how can we use Azure Kubernetes Service but still leverage our identity management in AD (be it native or synced ...

GCP: App Engine Flex vs Standard (followup)

Published Jul 14, 2019 by Isaac Johnson

I’ve left both running for the last couple weeks. I was interested to know what are real world costs.

GCP: App Engine Flex

Published Jul 12, 2019 by Isaac Johnson

Last time we experimented with GCP App Engine Standard which provides an easy way to launch a containerized app provided we stay within some narrowly defined guardrails.