Published Mar 16, 2022 by Isaac Johnson

Uptime Kuma is a very small yet full featured open source tool one can use to monitor and notify just about anything. It covers much of the same ground that Nagios or Site24x7 might cover. I foun...

Published Mar 8, 2022 by Isaac Johnson

Recently my cluster took another nose dive. This really panicked me as I cannot blog (easily) without it - my private Github runners are hosted in my cluster and moreover the container registry (h...

Published Mar 1, 2022 by Isaac Johnson

Kubecost started as an OSS tool in 2019 as a way to give developers insights into their Kubernetes spend. In a Techcrunch interview, Webb Brown, one of the co-founders, noted “There has been a prob...

Published Feb 22, 2022 by Isaac Johnson

My colleague Paul pointed out a really amazing toolset with which I’ve become rather smitten; k9s. It is a fully OSS Kubernetes CLI tool that does a whole lot of things while staying within the com...

Published Feb 15, 2022 by Isaac Johnson

I’m guilty of saying “Junkins” in meetings. For years, I’ve had a not-so-hidden disdain for Jenkins. It stemmed from being in a team that touted itself as “Jenkineers” back at a prior as well as f...

Published Feb 8, 2022 by Isaac Johnson

Argo Workflows is the workflow system from Argo Project that can be used to run containerized parallel workloads in Kubernetes.