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

GCP: App Engine Standard

Published Jul 6, 2019 by Isaac Johnson

Google Cloud App Engine Standard is an easy way to launch supported languages (Go, Java, PHP, Python and NodeJS) in a preconfigured cloud container. Google gives you 1Gb of data and traffic for fr...

Where it began: GCP and Kubernetes

Published Jul 3, 2019 by Isaac Johnson

It’s probably about time we cover the other leading cloud compute provider - Google. Google gave birth to Kubernetes as an internal project called “Borg” in 2003 and eventually it grew to the point...

DO K8s and AzDO Automation (Part 4)

Published Jul 1, 2019 by Isaac Johnson

When we last left off we had our Digital Ocean k8s cluster spun with Terraform and Istio installed with helm. Our next steps will be to have automatic sidecar injection and create a new app with w...

DO K8s and AzDO Automation (Part 3)

Published Jun 23, 2019 by Isaac Johnson

At this point we have a pipeline that is dynamically created, a helm chart launched and lastly torn back down. But how can we actually use this? What more can be done with this system?

DO K8s and AzDO Automation (Part 2)

Published Jun 9, 2019 by Isaac Johnson

Let’s get started making the pipeline. Microsoft will likely suggest the best way is to use the YAML editor, but generally I find it cumbersome and unintuitive. So we’ll use the much easier graph...

DO K8s and AzDO Automation (Part 1)

Published Jun 2, 2019 by Isaac Johnson

We’ve dug into a few kubernetes launch guides, but in reality, once launched, they aren’t of much use without a DevOps pipeline to deliver content. Let’s focus on taking a Digital Ocean kubernetes...