Published Oct 29, 2020 by Isaac Johnson

Recently, a colleague asked me about Hashi Waypoint and how it related to Chef Habitat.  While familiar with Chef’s other products, I wasn’t with “Habitat”.  What exactly is Chef Habitat and how do...

Published Oct 23, 2020 by Isaac Johnson

I was encouraged by a colleague to checkout Microsoft’s “Bridge to Kubernetes”, a Visual Studio/Visual Studio Code extension and pattern for live debugging kubernetes services.  The idea is that yo...

Published Oct 16, 2020 by Isaac Johnson

Hashicorp had HashiConf 2020 virtually this year.  The two day conference debuted two new products, Hashi Boundaryand Hashi Waypoint.  The former is an Identity at the perimeter solution and the la...

Published Oct 6, 2020 by Isaac Johnson

Let’s keep going with what we started last week.  This week I’ll show how to format secrets for various database engines, expose Vault with a public IP and load balancer and lastly how to connect m...

Published Oct 3, 2020 by Isaac Johnson

Hashi Vault has long been a leader in secret management and has had a Kubernetes Helm Chart now for a year.  I’ve been meaning to get back to Vault for some time and this week I took the time to ta...

Published Sep 20, 2020 by Isaac Johnson

When reviewing Serverless Kubernetes offerings over the last weeks, several sources suggested giving OpenFaaS a second look despite being one of the newer options in the space.