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

Rancher

Published May 20, 2019 by Isaac Johnson

Rancher calls itself simply “Multi-Cluster Kubernetes Management” and that fairly sums it up. It’s an app, most often run as a container that can handle the creation of k8s clusters over a variety ...

The Other Clouds: Vultr

Published May 17, 2019 by Isaac Johnson

In our last post we explored DigitalOcean following Linode. Another that often gets mentioned alongside DigitalOcean and Linode is Vultr. So how does Vultr compare for k8s hosting? Follow my ardu...

The Other Clouds: Digital Ocean and Kubernetes

Published May 11, 2019 by Isaac Johnson

Another fantastic public cloud provider outside the big three is DigitalOcean. Known for high speeds and low costs, they’ve been around for 7 years and have quite a fan base. According to Hackernoo...

The Other Clouds: Linode and Kubernetes

Published May 8, 2019 by Isaac Johnson

So far we have dug in quite a bit using Azure’s Kubernetes Service (AKS). This is primarily because i’m a bit of a fan and use it daily. But what other offerings are out there? Certainly Amazon h...

AKS and Stash: k8s native backups

Published May 5, 2019 by Isaac Johnson

Appscode Stash is slick k8s native suite to backup a variety of kubernetes objects including deployments and more. Let’s dig in on AKS to see how we can use stash for a real application.

Automating AKS Deployments like a Boss: Part 7

Published Apr 30, 2019 by Isaac Johnson

In our last article we covered deploying AKS with the Azure CLI and Kubespray. Today we will dig into two more ways; Hashicorp Terraform and ARM Templates.