Fresh/Brewed

This shot is a favourite of mine from my 2023 BWCA trip. We had paddled through Tin Can Mike on the way to Horse when a storm moved in. Heavy rains pelted us and lightning crept closer and closer. We high tailed it to a beach nearby and landed just as heavy hail began to beam us. Massive side gusts sent the icey pellets at ridiculous speeds and we hid behind trees. The lighting was now right overhead and there just was nowhere to go. And within minutes, it passed and gathered our gear and I got this great group photo.

The fact is, even in the worse weather, we were together and having fun. This week I'm up in BWCA with mostly the same group of guys. I know we are to expect heavy rains, ice, snow -- the lot of it this week. It should be great!

DataDog: Kubernetes and AzDO

Published Apr 22, 2020 by Isaac Johnson

In our exploration of Logging and Metrics tooling, one company/product worth checking out is Datadog. It’s been around since 2010 and is one of the larger offerings with over 350 integrations out o...

Azure DevOps: Debt, Pipelines and YAML

Published Apr 14, 2020 by Isaac Johnson

Let’s talk about why I spent $40 this month because of DevOps debt. That’s right, even yours truly can kick the can on some processes for a while and eventually that bit me in the tuchus.

AKS and NewRelic

Published Apr 13, 2020 by Isaac Johnson

As we look at various APM and Logging tools, one suite that deserves attention is NewRelic. New Relic is not a new player, having been founded in 2008 by Lew Cirne (anagram of ‘new relic’) and goi...

Azure Arc for Servers (Preview)

Published Apr 6, 2020 by Isaac Johnson

Azure Arc is a preview feature for Azure that will let you manage in Azure resources outside of Azure. So far they’ve discussed Arc for databases, servers and Kubernetes. I was recently given acc...

AKS and Ingress : Constraining Access

Published Apr 3, 2020 by Isaac Johnson

In my last missive I detailed out AKS and Ingress using NGinx Ingress Controllers. For public facing services this can be sufficient. However, many businesses require tighter controls - either for...

AKS and Ingress, again

Published Mar 28, 2020 by Isaac Johnson

I wrote most of my Azure Kubernetes guides a while back in a time where Helm 2 was standard and RBAC was an optional add-in. Recently when doing AKS work for work, I realized really how much has c...