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Wild Times with Chainguard

A big thank you to the folks at Chainguard.dev for letting me hang out with them at the Wild vs Sharks game this week. While our beloved Wild lost in sudden death overtime, it was a great game and good conversations.
Hetzner and OVHCloud

Hetzner and OVHCloud

Published Nov 13, 2025 by Isaac Johnson

In the last week I’ve looked in detail at UpCloud which is an amazing Finish Cloud Company. But there are some that are more than are based in Europe we’ve yet to explore.

UpCloud Part 2: OpenTofu and more

UpCloud Part 2: OpenTofu and more

Published Nov 11, 2025 by Isaac Johnson

Continuing from our last post about UpCloud, I really want to get into Terraform / OpenTofu next.

UpCloud Part 1: Setup, CLI, K8s and DB

UpCloud Part 1: Setup, CLI, K8s and DB

Published Nov 6, 2025 by Isaac Johnson

I had every intention of just doing a quick test of UpCloud. I already knew of them by way of Aiven.io which offers some services backed by UpCloud.

IBM Cloud does not want you

IBM Cloud does not want you

Published Nov 4, 2025 by Isaac Johnson

You see me write about Google Cloud, Azure and occasionally about AWS. I used to write a lot more about alternative clouds as well. IN 2019, I touched on Vultr, Digital Ocean and Linode.

Domain Swaps: space to the icu

Domain Swaps: space to the icu

Published Oct 30, 2025 by Isaac Johnson

I have three domains I tend to keep going: freshbrewed.science, tpw.pw and steeped.space. In the last few months, the “.space” domain has had some issues - it stops resolving, it falls down. The ...

OS Apps: Vert, Watchtower and Tugtainer

OS Apps: Vert, Watchtower and Tugtainer

Published Oct 28, 2025 by Isaac Johnson

Vert is an excellent media convertor that I found from Marius. It just is about converting types. I had a lot of old 3gpp files from “the olden days” of cell phones to try out.

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