Published Apr 18, 2023 by Isaac Johnson

We spoke of Zabbix last week showing setup and basic usage. Let’s continue that into a more full formed implementation.

Published Apr 13, 2023 by Isaac Johnson

I was reviewing some Open Source monitoring solutions recently when I got turned on to Zabbix. I was surprised this hadn’t come across my path earlier. It’s been out since 2005 and is a really st...

Published Apr 11, 2023 by Isaac Johnson

Cast.ai came up in a search for Open-Source Cost Management tools (that I have yet to try). While it isn’t open-source, at least as of a couple years ago, the founder promised to make it free for ...

Published Apr 6, 2023 by Isaac Johnson

I recently was admitted into the Google Bard trial. I felt it would be a great time to contrast Bard with ChatGPT and Bing.

Published Apr 4, 2023 by Isaac Johnson

Ran Cohen, CTO/Co-Founder of ConfigU asked me to take a look at their offering; ConfigU, “Configuration Management as a Service”. I’m always game to check out new DevOps, SCM and SRE tools and if ...

Published Mar 30, 2023 by Isaac Johnson

Monday, I covered setting up Terraform to fire up an Ansible playbook during Infrastructure creation time. While that worked fine, we ideally would like to keep our playbooks in GIT.