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

HCP Packer

Published Oct 19, 2022 by Isaac Johnson

At Hashiconf 2022 they announced a new HCP (Hashi Cloud Platform) product ; HCP Packer. While the bulk of announcements and presentations revolved around Terraform and Vault, their largest product...

Terraform and OPA

Published Oct 12, 2022 by Isaac Johnson

One of the more interesting announcements from Hashiconf this year was native OPA support in Terraform Cloud. Open Policy Agent has become the standard for policy checks and enforcement.

CloudRun Python - Moving to Kubernetes and Azure Functions

Published Oct 6, 2022 by Isaac Johnson

So far we have setup a Python based Cloud Run function and added Unit Tests and a CICD Flow in Github. Our next step will show how we can use this containerized function in other providers such as...

CloudRun Python -Installing Sonarqube and Adding Tests

Published Oct 1, 2022 by Isaac Johnson

Now that we have a simple cloud run function deployed that sends notifications, we should improve things by adding some semblance of test coverage.

CloudRun Python Github and Apprise Notifications

Published Sep 27, 2022 by Isaac Johnson

Recently, I’ve had need to sort out serverless notification endpoints for a variety of needs. While there are plenty of ways to run serverless functions in GCP, I figured it would be a good chance...

GlusterFS

Published Sep 20, 2022 by Isaac Johnson

GlusterFS is a free, scalable and open-source network filesystem we can use to keep paths synchronized across systems. Today we’ll setup GlusterFS on an on-prem 3 node cluster and then use it in a...