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

Maintaining A Healthy Kubernetes Cluster with Datadog

Published Sep 22, 2021 by Isaac Johnson

I make no bones about being a Datadog fan. I use it personally. Recently I had some health issues with my cluster and leveraged Datadog to help debug and solve them. Since I think this is a prett...

Packer and Linux: Part 2

Published Sep 15, 2021 by Isaac Johnson

In our last article we covered getting started with Packer, Linux and Azure. Now that we have the fundamentals, let’s work out some more useful examples leveraging packer.

Getting Started with Packer and Azure

Published Sep 8, 2021 by Isaac Johnson

Hashi Packer is the primary tool we use for creating virtual machine images and is one of the few tools at Hashi that is purely OSS (has no “Enterprise” offering). It released 1.0 in 2017 but has ...

Migrating from Ghost to Jekyll

Published Sep 1, 2021 by Isaac Johnson

In our last blog we worked out Github Pages and blogging with jekyll and Github sites. But what if you have a blog already, such as this one in Ghost. How can we migrate and will it be benificial...

Blogging with Github and Jekyll

Published Aug 24, 2021 by Isaac Johnson

I’ve been using Ghost to blog for some amount of time, but recently I was turned onto Jekyll for blogging with markdown. More to the point, Jekyll is the backend used by Github Pages blogging. We...

Kuma Mesh with Datadog

Published Aug 18, 2021 by Isaac Johnson

Kuma,which is a Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) sponsored service mesh, is the OSS backend of Kong Mesh. From the docs for mTLS we also see it is one of the implementers of the Spiffe univ...