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

Vacation and DevDays 2023 - why the lack of posts

Published Aug 27, 2023 by Isaac Johnson

First, I really thought I could be pro-active and clever and write a lot of content up front and keep things automated. It started okay, but then after a couple manual merges threw things off, I d...

Gitlab Github and Gitea: A Comparison

Published Aug 23, 2023 by Isaac Johnson

I was asked recently by Mehdi on Mastodon about Gitlab in comparison to Github and Gitea.

OnPrem HA/DR: NAS powerdown, NFS, MariaDB and how to trash a cluster

Published Aug 16, 2023 by Isaac Johnson

Two distinct things happened:

Azure DevOps: Agent Revisit

Published Aug 10, 2023 by Isaac Johnson

It has been a while since we looked into Azure DevOps. The last post was a couple years ago when we discussed work item automations.

Homarr: An OS Dashboard with Promise

Published Aug 8, 2023 by Isaac Johnson

Homarr Dashboard is a dashboard. It’s an Open Source project created by Thomas Camlong. He seems like a pretty smart guy based on LinkedIn, knocking out his masters while doing internships around...

Gitea Part 2: Actions, Runners, Mailer and more

Published Aug 3, 2023 by Isaac Johnson

In our last post we covered Gitea setup on a temporary cluster and explored the basics of Organizations and Repositories.