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Azure DevOps: Secrets in Files
Azure DevOps

Azure DevOps: Secrets in Files

We've discussed AKV and Hashi Vault, but one simple pattern for secrets storage and decimation is to use encrypted file storage.  While not as elegant, it can be more than sufficient, fast and

  • Isaac Johnson
    Isaac Johnson
5 min read
Chef: Getting Started
AKS

Chef: Getting Started

Chef has been around a long time as is definitely a key player in deployment suites.  What started out as OpsCode over a decade ago is now part of Progress Software.  They have

  • Isaac Johnson
    Isaac Johnson
19 min read
Nomad: Getting Started
nomad

Nomad: Getting Started

There is one Hashi Tool I really haven't dived into much and that is Nomad.  Nomad has been the Hashi product for deployments, containerized and otherwise for a while and some large companies

  • Isaac Johnson
    Isaac Johnson
20 min read
Terraform Cloud: Getting Started
hashicorp

Terraform Cloud: Getting Started

Hashicorp has had the Terraform Cloud offering now for the last year.  It’s been something I really wanted to try since HC 2019.  Interest was so high at  that time, there was

  • Isaac Johnson
    Isaac Johnson
25 min read
Azure DevOps Pull Request Checks
Azure DevOps

Azure DevOps Pull Request Checks

One of the nice features of Azure DevOps Repos is the ability to control Pull Requests with PR Policies. Policies such as minimum number of reviewers, PR build checks, comment response and Work

  • Isaac Johnson
    Isaac Johnson
10 min read
Azure DevOps Agent Pools: The Power of VMSS
Azure DevOps

Azure DevOps Agent Pools: The Power of VMSS

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

  • Isaac Johnson
    Isaac Johnson
10 min read
Rollbar: Getting Started
rollbar

Rollbar: Getting Started

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 signed up on my phone.

  • Isaac Johnson
    Isaac Johnson
7 min read
Oracle Cloud: VMs, K3s, and Container Registry
Oracle

Oracle Cloud: VMs, K3s, and Container Registry

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

  • Isaac Johnson
    Isaac Johnson
14 min read
Observability: Epsagon
observability

Observability: Epsagon

Epsagon was 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

  • Isaac Johnson
    Isaac Johnson
8 min read
AliCloud: Container Registry
Container Registry

AliCloud: Container Registry

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

  • Isaac Johnson
    Isaac Johnson
6 min read
Container Registries: IBM Cloud
Container Registry

Container Registries: IBM Cloud

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

  • Isaac Johnson
    Isaac Johnson
10 min read
Kubernetes onPrem: Getting Started
k8s

Kubernetes onPrem: Getting Started

It started as getting a wonderful old retired MacBook Pro from my brother.  I thought "Why not make a real x86 k8s cluster?".  Using K3s is easy so let's get started.  For the

  • Isaac Johnson
    Isaac Johnson
20 min read
Chef Habitat: Getting started
Chef

Chef Habitat: Getting started

Recently, a colleague asked me about Hashi Waypoint and how it related to Chef Habitat.  While familiar with Chef's other products, I wasn't with "Habitat".  What exactly is Chef Habitat and how does

  • Isaac Johnson
    Isaac Johnson
54 min read
VS Code: Bridge to Kubernetes
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VS Code: Bridge to Kubernetes

I was encouraged by a colleague to checkout Microsoft’s “Bridge to Kubernetes”, a Visual Studio/Visual Studio Code extension and pattern for live debugging kubernetes services.  The idea is that you can

  • Isaac Johnson
    Isaac Johnson
9 min read
Hashi Waypoint
AKS

Hashi Waypoint

Hashicorp had HashiConf 2020 virtually this year.  The two day conference debuted two new products, Hashi Boundary and Hashi Waypoint.  The former is an Identity at the perimeter solution and the later is

  • Isaac Johnson
    Isaac Johnson
13 min read
Vault on Kubernetes: Getting Started
vault

Vault on Kubernetes: Getting Started

Hashi Vault has long been a leader in secret management and has had a Kubernetes Helm Chart now for a year.  I've been meaning to get back to Vault for some time and

  • Isaac Johnson
    Isaac Johnson
12 min read
Kubernetes Serverless: OpenFaaS
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Kubernetes Serverless: OpenFaaS

When reviewing Serverless Kubernetes offerings over the last weeks, several sources suggested giving OpenFaaS a second look despite being one of the newer options in the space.  Alex Ellis started OpenFaaS back in

  • Isaac Johnson
    Isaac Johnson
23 min read
Kubernetes Serverless: Kubeless
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Kubernetes Serverless: Kubeless

Kubeless is another of the popular CNCF recognized Kubernetes Serverless offerings.  It’s a Bitnami supported project that has been around since late 2016.  It bills itself as “a Kubernetes-native serverless framework that

  • Isaac Johnson
    Isaac Johnson
18 min read
Kubernetes Serverless: fission.io
Getting Started

Kubernetes Serverless: fission.io

Following last week's post on Knative, I thought I should check out one of the other popular serverless framework for k8s, fission.io.  Fission, unlike KNative just focuses on the code.  This means

  • Isaac Johnson
    Isaac Johnson
6 min read
Kubernetes Serverless: KNative
AKS

Kubernetes Serverless: KNative

Knative is a platform to bring serverless workloads to Kubernetes. With Knative, one can create the equivalent of Azure or GCP Functions and Amazon Lambdas in K8s. More concretely, this allows one to

  • Isaac Johnson
    Isaac Johnson
17 min read
Containerized FORTRAN in Kubernetes
AKS

Containerized FORTRAN in Kubernetes

While there are guides to creating FORTRAN containers to solve local builds, I felt it would be a great logical followup to try and make a containerized microservice using FORTRAN.  More importantly, could

  • Isaac Johnson
    Isaac Johnson
17 min read
Getting Started with Packer and AzDO
Azure

Getting Started with Packer and AzDO

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 Vagrant

  • Isaac Johnson
    Isaac Johnson
10 min read
K8s and Krew : RBAC utilities
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K8s and Krew : RBAC utilities

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

  • Isaac Johnson
    Isaac Johnson
22 min read
Notifications: Email with Logic Apps
Azure

Notifications: Email with Logic Apps

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

  • Isaac Johnson
    Isaac Johnson
7 min read
Diagrams as Code: Mermaid
Azure DevOps

Diagrams as Code: Mermaid

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

  • Isaac Johnson
    Isaac Johnson
11 min read
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