Published Apr 14, 2020 by Isaac Johnson

Let’s talk about why I spent $40 this month because of DevOps debt.  That’s right, even yours truly can kick the can on some processes for a while and eventually that bit me in the tuchus.  

Published Apr 13, 2020 by Isaac Johnson

As we look at various APM and Logging tools, one suite that deserves attention is NewRelic.  New Relic is not a new player, having been founded in 2008 by Lew Cirne (anagram of ‘new relic’) and goi...

Published Apr 6, 2020 by Isaac Johnson

Azure Arc is a preview feature for Azure that will let you manage in Azure resources outside of Azure.  So far they’ve discussed Arc for databases, servers and Kubernetes.  I was recently given acc...

Published Apr 3, 2020 by Isaac Johnson

In my last missive I detailed out AKS and Ingress using NGinx Ingress Controllers. For public facing services this can be sufficient.  However, many businesses require tighter controls - either for...

Published Mar 28, 2020 by Isaac Johnson

I wrote most of my Azure Kubernetes guides a while back in a time where Helm 2 was standard and RBAC was an optional add-in.  Recently when doing AKS work for work, I realized really how much has c...

Published Mar 14, 2020 by Isaac Johnson

A few weeks ago, a coworker of mine posted to our slack this medium articleabout KEDA and Kafka.I wasn’t familiar with Kubernetes-based Event Driven Autoscaler (KEDA)and wanted to find out more. It...