Fresh/Brewed

As they now demolish the massive Tomson Reuters, formerly Tomson West, formerly West Group headquarters in Eagan, I found this photo of a meeting in 2017 I got to take in the special conference room originally built for the owner/founder and not often used. Behind the panneled wall on the right was a small kitchen. If you stretch your browser window, you can see the flags on the left. Now look at this recent photo of the destruction and you can see the same flags

Maintaining A Healthy Kubernetes Cluster with Datadog

Published Sep 22, 2021 by Isaac Johnson

I make no bones about being a Datadog fan. I use it personally. Recently I had some health issues with my cluster and leveraged Datadog to help debug and solve them. Since I think this is a prett...

Packer and Linux: Part 2

Published Sep 15, 2021 by Isaac Johnson

In our last article we covered getting started with Packer, Linux and Azure. Now that we have the fundamentals, let’s work out some more useful examples leveraging packer.

Getting Started with Packer and Azure

Published Sep 8, 2021 by Isaac Johnson

Hashi Packer is the primary tool we use for creating virtual machine images and is one of the few tools at Hashi that is purely OSS (has no “Enterprise” offering). It released 1.0 in 2017 but has ...

Migrating from Ghost to Jekyll

Published Sep 1, 2021 by Isaac Johnson

In our last blog we worked out Github Pages and blogging with jekyll and Github sites. But what if you have a blog already, such as this one in Ghost. How can we migrate and will it be benificial...

Blogging with Github and Jekyll

Published Aug 24, 2021 by Isaac Johnson

I’ve been using Ghost to blog for some amount of time, but recently I was turned onto Jekyll for blogging with markdown. More to the point, Jekyll is the backend used by Github Pages blogging. We...

Kuma Mesh with Datadog

Published Aug 18, 2021 by Isaac Johnson

Kuma,which is a Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) sponsored service mesh, is the OSS backend of Kong Mesh. From the docs for mTLS we also see it is one of the implementers of the Spiffe univ...