Published Feb 2, 2023 by Isaac Johnson

Often I’m asked for how best to apply secrets to CICD Workflows, most often in Github Actions and/or Azure DevOps. Today we’ll dig into using Secrets in Azure Pipelines (AzDO) and Github Actions. ...

Published Jan 31, 2023 by Isaac Johnson

I first heard about Hygraph through TLDR. Hypgraph’s pitch is rather grand - a content management system that connects anything to anything. I was intrigued to say the least.

Published Jan 27, 2023 by Isaac Johnson

As I alluded to in my last post, problems happen. In my case, my network starting getting flaky so I rebooted the Wi-Fi router. During this time, I discovered my master/primary K3s node lost its ...

Published Jan 25, 2023 by Isaac Johnson

We last explored Dapr Secrets nearly two years ago. I thought it might be nice to circle back on them and see how we can use Dapr.io with Azure KeyVault (AKV) and GCP Secrets Manager. My hope was...

Published Jan 19, 2023 by Isaac Johnson

Back in November, I wrote about Kasa Plugs and PyKasa. In that post I covered how to use Kasa Smart Plugs with lights as webhook triggered indicators. To make the updates, I forked the Python-Kas...

Published Jan 17, 2023 by Isaac Johnson

In the last post we covered setup, serverless and Open Telemetry. Today we’ll really dive into Alerts with a focus on Teams and PagerDuty. We’ll look at Instana on a cloud hosted cluster (AKS) an...