github Blogging with Github and Jekyll I've been using Ghost to blog for some amount of time, but recently I was turned onto Jekyll for blogging with markdown. More to the point, Jekyll is the backend used by Github
service-mesh Kuma Mesh with Datadog Kuma, which is a Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) sponsored service mesh, is the OSS backend of Kong Mesh. From the docs for mTLS we also see it is one of the implementers
Azure Azure Powershell Functions: Extending, Automating and Securing In our last post we covered the creation and testing of a powershell based Azure Function. It was able to list contents of a single storage account. But how might we extend that
Azure Azure Powershell Functions: Getting Started Recently I've had a lot of work that has involved powershell in a variety of tooling and the need to move powershell workloads into the cloud. Microsoft actually has a rather straightforward method
istio Service Mesh Observability: Kiali When working with Service Meshes, some questions that are often asked are; what microservices are included in my mesh and how are they connected? Additionally, how are they performing and is it safe
Jenkins Migrating Jenkinsfiles to AzDO Jenkins as a Continuous Integration tool is one of the longest active (if considering it's existence as Hudson) and commands a considerable market share. As such, in considering migrating from Jenkins to Azure
Azure DevOps Work Item Automations in Azure DevOps This past year for the OSN 2021 Speaker Series, I gave a talk on "Full Stack CICD of Kubernetes Microservices using DevOps and IaC". During that talk, I quickly reviewed WIQ based Automations
AWS Ingesting and Processing Emails In our last blog entry I covered creating AzDO work items from a static feedback form and then using AWS SES and Azure Logic Apps to send email. However, we may want to
Azure DevOps Feedback Forms to AzDO: Adding Email In our last post we created a feedback form that updated Azure DevOps with a new work item (feature) based on content from a static web form. Next we would like to expand
Azure DevOps Feedback Forms to AzDO Work Items An issue that has come up in my professional life recently a few times has been how to take in bugs, features, etc from users external to a private Azure DevOps organization or
kubewatch Kubewatch to sync secrets to AKV for DR In our last blog entry we dived into kubernetes event bindings in Dapr.io, Kubewatch and then started on a path to use Azure DevOps Pipelines with webhooks. In this blog we will
dapr Dapr K8s Events Bindings, Kubewatch and AzDO Webhook triggers A challenge that has come up for me a few times recently is to monitor kubernetes events. In several situations I've had the need to trigger things based on changes in a Kubernetes
dapr Dapr Part 8 : Middleware Pipelines for OAuth One of the features of Dapr is to use "middleware pipelines" to automate federated login to external identity providers. We can use these pipelines to configure API Auth with OAuth using registration providers
AKS Dapr Part 7: Securing externalized services One of the challenges to exposing Dapr workflows, or any Kubernetes based flow really, is securing it. We generally want to avoid enabling business logic orchestration that can be invoked unauthenticated. Luckily there
dapr Dapr Part 6: Workflows One feature of Dapr we've yet to explore is Azure Logic App workflow support. Let me explain a bit since I think the offering might be confusing. Microsoft open-sourced Azure Logic Apps, or
Cryptocurrency Crypto Mining Intro (not for profit) All the chatter about dogecoin and then my colleagues chatting about mining got me interested in seeing how hard it is to get started in crypto mining. Today we'll check out mining on
Harbor Harbor: Getting Started with on Prem Container Registry Harbor is an open-source solution and graduated CNCF project. It's matured to having a solid helm chart and deployment model. In the past, I have tried to launch instances but due to it's
Azure Azure DNS Azure DNS is a simple hosting service Microsoft offers in Azure. While it does not have TLD registration built in, it does serve and manage namespaces pointed to it. This can be used
dapr Dapr Part 5: Observability, Telemetry and Tracing One of the features of Dapr.io we have yet to explore is the logging and performance management component. Dapr uses OpenTelemtry to forward tracing data to the tool of your choice.Source:
dapr Dapr Part 4: Service Discovery and Bindings We've covered pubsub and secrets in detail. Dapr can also provide service-to-service discovery and routing much like istio (less the encryption). Dapr's binding component allows us to route to external services for input
dapr Dapr Part 3: Digging into Secrets Dapr provides a basic but very functional secrets abstraction component we can use in our services. In our last topic we furthered the pub/sub knowledge with a custom perl subscriber. Today we
Dapr Part 2: Sprinkle a little Perl We started out last week with Dapr and followed the getting started tutorials. At that time we experimented with local containerized installs of Dapr as well as Kubernetes through AKS. This week we
dapr Dapr: Getting started A colleague of mine has several times asked me about Dapr and what I thought. Dapr finally released a 1.0 in February this year and I figured it was time to give
k0s K0s: Mirantis' tiny k8s distro I was chatting with some folks from Mirantis about Lens and some of their offerings and they highly encouraged me to try out K0s ("K Zeros"). This week I took some time to
logging LogDNA: Logging and Alerting LogDNA has been around about six years and I became familiar with them at DevOps Days in Minneapolis 3 years ago. Their offering has matured a lot since then and it was time
