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Full stack Grafana: Prometheus, Tempo, Loki, Alloy and Gemini CLI

Full stack Grafana: Prometheus, Tempo, Loki, Alloy and Gemini CLI

Published Jul 15, 2025 by Isaac Johnson

Today we are going to explore setting up a full Grafana OS stack including Alloy for OpenTelemetry (OTLP), Tempo for Traces, Prometheus for Metrics, Loki for Logs and lastly Grafana for reviewing a...

Gemini CLI

Gemini CLI

Published Jul 10, 2025 by Isaac Johnson

First, I should point out that if you like watching things instead of reading, I did create a YouTube video that covers how to setup and use Gemini CLI already. In that video I do some updates to a...

Vertex AI Media Studio and more

Vertex AI Media Studio and more

Published Jul 8, 2025 by Isaac Johnson

Today I wanted to dig in to Vertex AI Media Studio as well as Google AIStudio. They are very similar though the prior is pay-as-you-go and the latter has some free credits.

Ollama and Blue Sky updates

Ollama and Blue Sky updates

Published Jul 5, 2025 by Isaac Johnson

Recently I wanted to test some new Ollama models but needed to update Ollama. This gave me a chance to test them with our pybsposter app which posts to BlueSky.

OS Apps: Tocry, FastAPI and Typer

OS Apps: Tocry, FastAPI and Typer

Published Jul 2, 2025 by Isaac Johnson

I saw a Marious Post on ToCry which is a lightweight Kanban open-source app. It is elegant and quick and easy to setup. We’ll not only set it up and run in Docker and Kubernetes, but we’ll build o...

AWX Refresh and Automation

AWX Refresh and Automation

Published Jun 30, 2025 by Isaac Johnson

Recently my AWX instance, now many years old and the last of the Adwerx line was falling down. It was time to pivot to the Operator model, which itself is now undergoing a refactor.

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