With the popularity of microservices on the rise, having a way to manage these microservices, from deploying them to making sure that the right ones can talk to each other, has become crucial in today’s distributed environment. The most popular solution out there is Kubernetes. Heck, it’s so popular that…

The best way to dig into a new technology is to give yourself an interesting project to work on. It’s the advice that I give to my direct reports, mentees, and most importantly, it’s advice that I follow myself. It hasn’t failed me yet! If you read my first Just-in-Time…

Why should Kubernetes get all the love? There are tons of examples out there on how to deploy the OpenTelemetry (OTel) Collector to Kubernetes. When it comes to deploying the OTel Collector on Nomad, however, you don’t see a lot of stuff out there. …

Down the Rabbit Hole As part of my dabblings with HashiQube, I recently found myself writing a jobspec that required me to needed to pull secrets from Vault. I soon realized that while HashiQube bootstraps Nomad, Vault, Consul (à la Vagrant) on my local machine, it does not configure Vault/Nomad integration. No integration? No…

Can we get some Nomad Love Here? Let’s face it — Kubernetes gets ALL the love. Although Nomad is a GREAT product, it has a much, much smaller user base. As a result, there are fewer tools geared toward supporting it. One thing that is lacking in the Nomad ecosystem is tooling for managing Nomad deployments. Believe…

If you’re familiar with Kubernetes, chances are, you’ve heard of Helm, a templating and packaging tool for your Kubernetes deployments. Unfortunately, there was no such tool for Nomad…that is, until recently. On November 16th, 2021, HashiCorp introduced Nomad Pack in Tech Preview, with the announcement of Nomad 1.2. I love…

A couple of weeks ago, I was asked to look at Temporal. In case you haven’t heard of it, Temporal is a workflow orchestrator. It allows you to define workflows as code, using Go, Java, Python, and PHP. How cool is that?! I was excited and ready to dive in…

If you follow my writings on HashiQube, you know that I am a HUGE fan of it. For the uninitiated, HashiQube provisions a full-on HashiCorp stack including but not limited to Nomad, Vault, and Consul, using Vagrant. It’s been a few months since I last touched HashiQube 😭, and during…

Y’all…I’m so excited, because I finally got to work on an item on my tech bucket list. Last week, I began the process of translating OpenTelemetry (OTel) Demo App’s Helm Charts to HashiCorp Nomad job specs. …

Ever since I started exploring Nomad, one of the things that I’ve enjoyed doing is taking Docker Compose files and Kubernetes manifests, and translating them into HashiCorp Nomad jobspec. …

The concept of Trace-based testing (TBT) was first presented by my awesome colleague, Ted Young, at KubeCon North America 2018. The idea behind it was simple, yet elegant: if you’re already creating distributed Traces in your application code, why not use this same Trace data to create test assertions to…