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ConfigU: A SaaS offering for SCM

ConfigU: A SaaS offering for SCM

Published Apr 4, 2023 by Isaac Johnson

Ran Cohen, CTO/Co-Founder of ConfigU asked me to take a look at their offering; ConfigU, “Configuration Management as a Service”. I’m always game to check out new DevOps, SCM and SRE tools and if ...

Ansible and Terraform: Github

Ansible and Terraform: Github

Published Mar 30, 2023 by Isaac Johnson

Monday, I covered setting up Terraform to fire up an Ansible playbook during Infrastructure creation time. While that worked fine, we ideally would like to keep our playbooks in GIT.

Ansible and Terraform: Better Together

Ansible and Terraform: Better Together

Published Mar 27, 2023 by Isaac Johnson

We know that we can use Terraform to build out repeatable infrastructure with code. However, we often have to solve provisioning in a second pass. That can be using Packer or Ansible or other too...

KubeDNS with CoreDNS and Stub Domains

KubeDNS with CoreDNS and Stub Domains

Published Mar 21, 2023 by Isaac Johnson

Recently, I’ve needed to address questions around DNS in Kubernetes. I figured it might be worthwhile to review Kube DNS and show how we can change it for local DNS entries.

Internal.io

Internal.io

Published Mar 17, 2023 by Isaac Johnson

Internal.io is a low-code/no-code internal tooling site aimed at Developers, Ops, SRE, DevSecOps; anyone looking to make quick internal integrations and reports.

AWX: Adding Variables to Ansible Playbooks

AWX: Adding Variables to Ansible Playbooks

Published Mar 14, 2023 by Isaac Johnson

Recently, quite haphazardly, I discovered my secondary test cluster was operating entirely over the Wifi NIC. I realized this was both inefficient and problematic as my wifi router can be spotty i...

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