ICANN Open Letter: ICANN .COM Price Increases This letter was submitted to ICANN in response to their proposal to allow Verisign to significantly increase the wholesale cost of purchasing a .COM domain name. While this price increase
Handy Ops Tools Here's a list of apps that I find super handy in my day-to-day job. There's a variety of things here and I hope it can make your job a bit easier or your environment a bit more secure.
DevOps Let's Embark! Securing our Internet Treasures (Part 3) Today we secure our Ingress! Security is one of the most important parts of any modern software installation. Let's see how easy it is to get 'er done on Kubernetes.
DevOps The Secret: Kubernetes Secrets and AWS SSM Want a simple way to inject secrets into your Kubernetes Deployments via your CI tool? I've got you covered!
DevOps Docker Hub: Automatically Building Images Ever wanted to build and distribute a tool on Docker Hub? Well, it's easy to automatically build an image. Let's get started!
DevOps Let's Embark! Setting up Ingress (Part 2) A web app is no use to use if it's not connected to the web! In this article of the "Let's Embark!" series, we cover how to setup nginx-ingress using the offical nginxinc/nginx-ingress images and getting your cluster connected to the internet.
DevOps Let's Embark! Setting up Kubernetes (Part 1) Ever wanted to build a Kubernetes Cluster? Well, you can. It's easy.
DevOps curl: (35) Unknown SSL protocol error What to do if you get the "curl: (35) Unknown SSL protocol error in connection to www.mywebhost.com:443" when you're running workloads on Kubernetes.
DevOps Good Monitoring Answers Questions Monitoring is hard, especially so if I don't know why or what I'm monitoring. We need to move past "monitor x, y, and z." Look for answers that inform our decisions around which metrics to capture and alert on.
DevOps DevOps: Culture vs. Tooling People often mistake DevOps as a set of tools a team can use. This is wrong. Understand how culture is core to DevOps and how you can embed these practices.
Tools API Monitoring Scaffold Solution I HATE on-call. That's why when I decided to start doing my own side-hustle, I wanted to make sure there were no 4 AM wake-ups unless necessary. I have designed
DevOps If you you can't delete, you can't repeat Everyone has heard of Netflix's famed Chaos Monkey and are familiar with the general concept of "Chaos Engineering". In terms of Site Reliability, Fault Tolerance, and High Availability, Netflix is
DevOps Backups: Securing your Cloud Resources against disaster In today’s world of high-availability clouds, there is still some paranoia around the complete loss of service for cloud providers and backups. In particular, many businesses are concerned that
Security Establishing Trust: Why TLS should be important to you Trust is very valuable in today’s world. People trust their data with you and in some cases, this means they trust their lives with you. The internet by design
