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Wild Times with Chainguard

A big thank you to the folks at Chainguard.dev for letting me hang out with them at the Wild vs Sharks game this week. While our beloved Wild lost in sudden death overtime, it was a great game and good conversations.
Azure DevOps Agent Pools: The Power of VMSS

Azure DevOps Agent Pools: The Power of VMSS

Published Dec 31, 2020 by Isaac Johnson

Most recently in conversation with my colleague Jason, I brought up the power of VMSS backed agents.  I covered them in my WhizLabs course, but haven’t discussed them, to date, here in the blog.

Rollbar: Getting Started

Rollbar: Getting Started

Published Dec 17, 2020 by Isaac Johnson

What is Rollbar? They bill themselves as the Continuous Code Improvement Platform with real time AI-assisted workflows.Interestingly enough I found them through a mobile advert and subsequently sig...

Oracle Cloud: VMs, K3s, and Container Registry

Oracle Cloud: VMs, K3s, and Container Registry

Published Dec 9, 2020 by Isaac Johnson

There is one cloud I’ve avoided.  I have feelings about their business policies and treatment of the open source community. However, since Oracle is buying Tik Tok to leverage their Cloud, I decide...

Observability: Epsagon

Observability: Epsagon

Published Dec 1, 2020 by Isaac Johnson

Epsagonwas one of the KubeCon sponsors this year that caught my eye.  They have a tracing suite with a free tier that seemed interesting.  One can track a thousand traces a month in the free tier w...

AliCloud: Container Registry

AliCloud: Container Registry

Published Nov 23, 2020 by Isaac Johnson

I created an AliCloud account a long time back to test their initial K8s offering but never figured out the UI.  I went back to see what they had to offer by way of container registries.  From what...

Container Registries: IBM Cloud

Container Registries: IBM Cloud

Published Nov 22, 2020 by Isaac Johnson

I have yet to try IBM Cloud and decided with Docker’s latest rate limiting on free accounts, it might be worth looking into alternate stores for containers.  IBM Cloud has a small number of free ti...

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