Published Dec 9, 2020 by Isaac Johnson

There is one cloud I’ve avoided.  I have feelings about their business policies and treatment of the open source community. However, since Oracle is buying Tik Tok to leverage their Cloud, I decide...

Published Dec 1, 2020 by Isaac Johnson

Epsagonwas one of the KubeCon sponsors this year that caught my eye.  They have a tracing suite with a free tier that seemed interesting.  One can track a thousand traces a month in the free tier w...

Published Nov 23, 2020 by Isaac Johnson

I created an AliCloud account a long time back to test their initial K8s offering but never figured out the UI.  I went back to see what they had to offer by way of container registries.  From what...

Published Nov 22, 2020 by Isaac Johnson

I have yet to try IBM Cloud and decided with Docker’s latest rate limiting on free accounts, it might be worth looking into alternate stores for containers.  IBM Cloud has a small number of free ti...

Published Nov 17, 2020 by Isaac Johnson

It started as getting a wonderful old retired MacBook Pro from my brother.  I thought “Why not make a real x86 k8s cluster?”.  Using K3s is easy so let’s get started.  For the PVC we will use a Syn...

Published Nov 5, 2020 by Isaac Johnson

A topic that has come up a few times lately, in regards to YAML pipelines in Azure DevOps, is how to use Environments for non-containerized workloads.  Most of to whom I speak are pretty comfortabl...