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AWX: Adding Variables to Ansible Playbooks

AWX: Adding Variables to Ansible Playbooks

Published Mar 14, 2023 by Isaac Johnson

Recently, quite haphazardly, I discovered my secondary test cluster was operating entirely over the Wifi NIC. I realized this was both inefficient and problematic as my wifi router can be spotty i...

NGrok: A simple DyDns Reverse Proxy

NGrok: A simple DyDns Reverse Proxy

Published Mar 9, 2023 by Isaac Johnson

I have come across NGrok in a few tutorials over time. It provides a fantastic service that is basically a dynamic DNS plus reverse proxy in one. It makes exposing ones internal service fantastica...

Feedback Forms: JIRA, Discord, Keybase, Teams and Datadog

Feedback Forms: JIRA, Discord, Keybase, Teams and Datadog

Published Mar 7, 2023 by Isaac Johnson

We have handled Slack and Github Issues thus far and we’ve leveraged Azure DevOps in the past as well. Today, let’s focus on JIRA and Discord. We’ll set up notifications on Slack, Discord, Keybas...

Feedback Forms: Moving to triggered GH Actions

Feedback Forms: Moving to triggered GH Actions

Published Mar 3, 2023 by Isaac Johnson

Earlier this week, we covered updating Azure DevOps webhook triggered pipelines to update Azure Work Items and create a Github Issue. The goal was to update our flows to start to use Github Issues...

Feedback Forms: Azure Work Items and Github Issues

Feedback Forms: Azure Work Items and Github Issues

Published Feb 28, 2023 by Isaac Johnson

I’ve used Azure DevOps for years now and, over time, have moved most of my workloads to Github. The outstanding part is, and has been, Azure DevOps Work Items. Work Item management in AzDO is jus...

Ansible AWX: Automating K3s Refresh, Istio, Cert-Manager and AzureDNS

Ansible AWX: Automating K3s Refresh, Istio, Cert-Manager and AzureDNS

Published Feb 24, 2023 by Isaac Johnson

Today we’ll revisit using Ansible (AWX) to respin and on-prem Kubernetes cluster (K3s). We are not only going to testing creating a K3s cluster without Traefik, but we’ll tackle creating and testi...

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