1. Consul for external services

    Table of Contents …


  2. Deploying Krateo with Terraform

    This post will describe my experience in getting up and running with Krateo in a toy environment on Digital Ocean. …


  3. Back to serving others

    Working through war and plague Mission and purpose A detour Lessons Who am I not Who am I Back to service …


  4. Issuing host certificates from Vault with Ansible

    Overview The Vault CA Issueing certificates Deciding on whether to issue a certificate Declaratively determining issue_cert Further enhancement Footnotes and References …


  5. Consul in Digital Ocean (part II)

    3/5 Hashifinity Stones What are we building Axes of competence Architecture Design goals Implementation Tooling Speedbumps Bind, advertise, client addresses Cluster joining Key generation Data persistence and zero-downtime rolling changes Add lifecycle to server droplet resources too Cloud Config template cloud-config Remove existing entries that point to localhost Get Consul Enable the consul service Final considerations Footnotes …


  6. Terraform off the beaten track

    Choosing a stack: design and priorities Terraforming DO and Cloudflare The best part of Terraform Some finer details Securing the Consul cluster …


  7. How I work

    Time is a strange thing …


  8. A new adventure

    A change in perspective …