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

Azure Powershell Functions: Extending, Automating and Securing

Published Aug 12, 2021 by Isaac Johnson

In our last post we covered the creation and testing of a powershell based Azure Function. It was able to list contents of a single storage account. But how might we extend that to manipulate file...

Azure Powershell Functions: Getting Started

Published Aug 5, 2021 by Isaac Johnson

Recently I’ve had a lot of work that has involved powershell in a variety of tooling and the need to move powershell workloads into the cloud. Microsoft actually has a rather straightforward metho...

Service Mesh Observability: Kiali

Published Jul 26, 2021 by Isaac Johnson

When working with Service Meshes, some questions that are often asked are; what microservices are included in my mesh and how are they connected? Additionally, how are they performing and is it saf...

Migrating Jenkinsfiles to AzDO

Published Jul 22, 2021 by Isaac Johnson

Jenkins as a Continuous Integration tool is one of the longest active (if considering it’s existence as Hudson) and commands a considerable market share. As such, in considering migrating from Jen...

Work Item Automations in Azure DevOps

Published Jul 12, 2021 by Isaac Johnson

This past year for the OSN 2021 Speaker Series, I gave a talk on “Full Stack CICD of Kubernetes Microservices using DevOps and IaC”. During that talk, I quickly reviewed WIQ based Automations that...

Ingesting and Processing Emails

Published Jul 8, 2021 by Isaac Johnson

In our last blog entry I covered creating AzDO work items from a static feedback form and then using AWS SES and Azure Logic Apps to send email. However, we may want to ingest work from email. Wh...