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

Openproject Part 1: OS PjM

Published Feb 27, 2024 by Isaac Johnson

OpenProject is an Open-Source project management offering that also has a paid SaaS offering as well (similar to Plane.so). I’ll start by saying there are some things I really like about OpenProje...

Kubecost: Upgrade and new Features

Published Feb 22, 2024 by Isaac Johnson

Recently I was looking to fetch some metrics from the Prometheus in Kubecost and found it was down. Today we’ll look at how you fix a stuck Prometheus server, upgrading Kubecost to the latest char...

Spacelift.io: Ansible and Kubernetes

Published Feb 20, 2024 by Isaac Johnson

Last time we setup Spacelift and used it to deploy our IaC OpenTofu (Terraform) code. Today we will look at Ansible and Kubernetes deployments using Spacelift.io.

Spacelift.io: Getting Started/OpenTofu

Published Feb 17, 2024 by Isaac Johnson

We recently covered the latest updates in OpenTofu. However, if you want to run it outside of a basic CI/CD pipeline (e.g. Github, Gitea or Forgejo pipelines) it’s worth considering some enterpris...

K8Studio

Published Feb 13, 2024 by Isaac Johnson

K8Studio is a cross-platform IDE for viewing and managing Kubernetes clusters. It falls into the same categories as K9s and Lens, but also has Cloudcraft style visualizations (albeit 2d). It’s i...

Open-Source Apps: CodeX Docs and OpenDocMan

Published Feb 8, 2024 by Isaac Johnson

Today, let’s checkout some Open-Source apps, namely CodeX Docs and OpenDocMan. CodeX is the name of a group of OpenSource engineers and an overall grouping of their packages. OpenDocMan is a pre...