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Fixing The Cluster: K3s, Dapr, APM, Datadog and physical cleanups
Published Jan 27, 2023 by Isaac Johnson
As I alluded to in my last post, problems happen. In my case, my network starting getting flaky so I rebooted the Wi-Fi router. During this time, I discovered my master/primary K3s node lost its ...
Dapr and Mastodon
Published Jan 25, 2023 by Isaac Johnson
We last explored Dapr Secrets nearly two years ago. I thought it might be nice to circle back on them and see how we can use Dapr.io with Azure KeyVault (AKV) and GCP Secrets Manager. My hope was...
Smart Plugs with PyKasa: Part 2 - adding secrets, build files and helm
Published Jan 19, 2023 by Isaac Johnson
Back in November, I wrote about Kasa Plugs and PyKasa. In that post I covered how to use Kasa Smart Plugs with lights as webhook triggered indicators. To make the updates, I forked the Python-Kas...
Instana: Part 2: GCP, Cloud Services, Databases, Hosts, Monitoring and Alerting
Published Jan 17, 2023 by Isaac Johnson
In the last post we covered setup, serverless and Open Telemetry. Today we’ll really dive into Alerts with a focus on Teams and PagerDuty. We’ll look at Instana on a cloud hosted cluster (AKS) an...
VIDEO: Containerized Mainframe code with Dapr, OpenTelemetry, Datadog and GKE
Published Jan 13, 2023 by Isaac Johnson
After a great conversation with Diagrid I was asked to speak about containerizing Mainframe Code (COBOL) and using Dapr.io to orchestrate in Kubernetes.
Instana: Part 1: Setup, K8s, Website and Open Telemetry
Published Jan 10, 2023 by Isaac Johnson
Today we will dig into creating an Instana account and setting up Host and Kubernetes monitors. We’ll look into serverless (AWS Lambdas) and tracing through Open Telemetry.
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