2019 Learnings, 2020 Expectations

 Posted on 2020-01-01  (Last modified on 2020-03-22)  |  16 minutes  |  3256 words  |  Chris Short

A former co-worker and now friend has a tagline, “Every day is a school day.” I remind myself of this fact almost every time I learn something new. 2019 was the hardest year of my life. I’d like to share some things I picked up on this most recent journey around the sun we call 2019. I’ll make some predictions about 2020 in the process too. Kubernetes Last year, I said I thought Kubernetes would get easier. [Read More]
DevOps  developer  open source  Kubernetes  developer experience  security  code  health care  China  Docker  GitOps  Red Hat  IBM  cloud  cloud native  API  WebAssembly  Wasm  community  infrastructure  AWS  InfoSec  software  chronic pain  velocity  medically separated 

Use The Force, Larry: Oracle Playing Politics with Nation's Defense

 Posted on 2019-07-29  (Last modified on 2020-03-22)  |  8 minutes  |  1636 words  |  Chris Short

This article is based on the introduction to DevOps’ish on 2019-07-28. Some parts are duplicated but this is a much deeper dive than I could do in the newsletter (and these 1500 words barely do the topic justice). Also, yes, I work for Red Hat. Yes, I’m a CNCF Ambassador. No, these views do not represent theirs. Please take a moment to read my disclaimer. Above all things, I’m an American, and this issue trancends business. [Read More]
Oracle  JEDI  AWS  cloud  DoD  Interoperability Clearinghouse  China  Larry Ellison 

AWS Michigan: Heaven is Not a Cloud

 Posted on 2018-04-30  (Last modified on 2020-02-02)  |  1 minutes  |  185 words  |  Chris Short

I recently spoke at AWS Michigan about cloud migrations. The talk wasn’t AWS specific but we sure did talk about it a ton. From defining cloud to addressing priorities to preventing cost overruns we covered a lot during the meetup. I was peppered with questions by a lively audience. After speaking on stage at DevOpsDays Atlanta 2018, there was this awkward moment for me when the first question was asked. [Read More]
devops  AWS  Michigan  talks  cloud 

Find EC2 Instances That Are Missing Tags

 Posted on 2017-01-26  (Last modified on 2020-02-02)  |  2 minutes  |  367 words  |  Chris Short

The team here was trying to align AWS resources for billing by using Tags. Seems easy enough but we were having issues trying to figure out which EC2 instances were not tagged. We also wanted to find EC2 instances that are missing a ROLE tag. We searched high and low and found that several people needed a solution. We tried to cobble something together with the AWS CLI and then Ansible. [Read More]
EC2  AWS  jq  DevOps 

Technical Debt and the Ongoing Battle Against It

 Posted on 2016-08-09  (Last modified on 2020-03-22)  |  4 minutes  |  836 words  |  Chris Short

I have been trying to fit a lot of square pegs into round holes lately. Eliminating technical debt with modern day DevOps practices to reduce costs is seldom fun or glamorous but is very often beneficial. Reducing costs should be the mindset of IT and one surefire way to do that is to spend the right amount of time on a task to complete it successfully. Finding that balance is definitely tricky especially when a lot of us are human time division multiplexers now. [Read More]
technical debt  DevOps  systemd  AWS 

Low Cost Content Delivery Network (CDN)

 Posted on 2016-06-14  (Last modified on 2020-03-22)  |  4 minutes  |  821 words  |  Chris Short

A content delivery network (CDN) provides a service that enables public facing, web based responsive access to said resources in an effort to maintain a good user experience across the planet. A CDN provides a localized cache (copy) of your web site and its content closer to end users. CDNs leverage local data centers closer to end users and a little DNS magic to make this work. CDNs help their customers have a significantly smaller infrastructure footprint while maintaining fast load time for services provided. [Read More]
CDN  Content Delivery Network  CloudFlare  Amazon  S3  AWS