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VSCode Dev Containers

VSCode Dev Containers

Published Sep 24, 2024 by Isaac Johnson

From time to time, I’ve had the need to develop in a more obscure language or complicated development environment. Recently I had to swap laptops for work and was reminded of all my nuanced depend...

Cloud Spend: Find and Fix

Cloud Spend: Find and Fix

Published Sep 19, 2024 by Isaac Johnson

Today we will look at finding and fixing some cost spikes. These actually came about because… well, I’ll just let you tag along to see. The goal here is to start with a Cost alert and figure out ...

Observium

Observium

Published Sep 17, 2024 by Isaac Johnson

Observium has been on my to-do list since this 2023 article brought it to my attention.

Cloud Diagram Suites: Hava, LucidScale and Holori

Cloud Diagram Suites: Hava, LucidScale and Holori

Published Sep 12, 2024 by Isaac Johnson

I’ve always had a soft spot for Cloudcraft since I saw it prominently on display at Hashiconf 2018.

On-prem Backups: NAS and NFS, Minio, Fuse, Monitors and Synology CloudSync

On-prem Backups: NAS and NFS, Minio, Fuse, Monitors and Synology CloudSync

Published Sep 10, 2024 by Isaac Johnson

In our last two posts we explored Cloud-based backups. But what about on-prem? What choices do we have outside the major cloud providers?

Cloud Backups: GCS Fuse, Crontabs, Ansible and Azure

Cloud Backups: GCS Fuse, Crontabs, Ansible and Azure

Published Sep 6, 2024 by Isaac Johnson

Earlier this week we touched on Cloud Backups using rsync and cron with s3fs as well as GCP Storage Transfer Service (STS) to cloud buckets.

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