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

Notifications: Email with Logic Apps

Published Jul 16, 2020 by Isaac Johnson

Love them or hate them, email notifications are a topic nearly every project needs to solve. Having to trigger them from Azure has come up multiple times in the last week which prompted me to ask, ...

Diagrams as Code: Mermaid

Published Jul 12, 2020 by Isaac Johnson

While i’ve been using Mermaid diagrams for some time, i realize not everyone knows what they are or how best to use them. I’ll work through how you can have diagrams as code, expose via Azure DevO...

Datadog for DevOps : Metrics, Dashboards and Logs

Published Jun 29, 2020 by Isaac Johnson

Last time I talked about Datadog it was to focus on how Datadog helps us track deployments into AKS and tie to Azure DevOps data from builds. Today I want to dig in to how Datadog can help track a...

Codespaces

Published Jun 23, 2020 by Isaac Johnson

While i have signed up for the new Codespaces feature in Github and am awaiting enrollment, we can explore codespaces (formerly Visual Studio Online, which Microsoft also first called VSTS, now Azu...

Helm 3 : Creating and Sharing Charts

Published Jun 9, 2020 by Isaac Johnson

Helm offers a fantastic way to install charts in a repeatable way, but often it can seem daunting to get started creating charts. And once one has charts, there are a variety of ways to serve them...

Whitesource Bolt for AzDO and Github

Published May 27, 2020 by Isaac Johnson

On recommendations from a colleague, I decided to checkout Whitesource Boltwhich was recently made free for developers and demo’ed at Microsoft Build 2020. It integrates natively with Azure DevOps...