Published Aug 12, 2020 by Isaac Johnson

Lately I’ve been in many conversations about how to use Packer, especially how to use Packer with Azure Pipelines and Cloud endpoints.  There are some good Getting Started trainings with Packer and...

Published Aug 3, 2020 by Isaac Johnson

Recently the topic came up about how to procure valid SSL certificates for a colleague’s project.  I knew I had used an earlier version of cert-manager ina post about self host container registries...

Published Jul 29, 2020 by Isaac Johnson

While I cannot recall how I came across krew, it’s been in the back of my mind to check it out.  I was aware that it contained a solid library of plugins especially around role base access controls...

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, ...

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...

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...