Dinner with Bick Tonight, I had the enormous pleasure of hosting a good friend of mine for dinner tonight. Bick was in town from Huntsville, Alabama as an expert witness for a trial. Bick and I m...

References Intro to Scaling Prometheus with Cortex - Tom Wilkie, Grafana Labs & Ken Haines, Microsoft

My SOC2 Audit Learning Journey I am currently learning what it takes to perform a SOC2 audit. In this post, I hope to capture some of the resources I used to learn about SOC2 and any non-confiden...

Background The past couple of days have been a lot of fun. I’ve been taking over getting my five-year-old daughter ready for school in the morning because my wife has been sick. I was sitting ne...

References ’ https://capi-samples.github.io/kubecon-na-2022-tutorial/docs/prereqs/ https://cluster-api.sigs.k8s.io/ https://openfeature.dev/ https://github.com/open-feature/flagd

Plugins Tuna https://github.com/univrsal/tuna/releases/tag/v1.8.4 https://obsproject.com/forum/resources/tuna.843/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-ws6K6e5GI Audio Monitor https://o...

https://opensourcebilling.org/ https://github.com/vteams/open-source-billing Look into reserved instances for AWS for Ubiquiti controller and possiblely billing software.

Next Steps [x] Install apt mirror [x] Mirror Ubuntu Releases [x] Install pihole [x] Install Netbox [x] Install Nitrokey HSM tooling [ ] Create a custom step apt repository for step deb packages [ ]...

References https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QyGHZ2HCwqY&t=440s https://linuxhint.com/pxe_boot_ubuntu_server/ https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Openstack-helm https://opendev.org/openstac...

Open Questions Should I host my LDAP services on the Bare Metal Kubernetes controlplane nodes? Should I host LDAP services in my Kubernetes Cluster, rather than as a systemd service? If I h...