July 18, 2022

Cultivating Careers, Communities and Companies with Open Source

6 min read - The soft skills you need to succeed in open source. I’ve had the privilege of working in open source for the last 20+ years. I started off as a volunteer, as most do in open source, attempting to learn something…

March 7, 2022

How to Use an Ansible Playbook to Manage Secrets for Infrastructure Provisioned on IBM Cloud

6 min read - Instructions and code that show you how to use Ansible playbooks to manage the lifecycle of a secret in IBM Secret Manager. IBM Cloud Secrets Manager is built on open-source HashiCorp Vault, and it allows you to dynamically create and…

February 17, 2022

Kubernetes Audit Logs: Answering the Who, When and What

3 min read - Learn how to set up log forwarding and collect audit logs that are passed through the Kubernetes API server to IBM Log Analysis to check who initiated a request and when they did so. As a cluster administrator, by following…

February 3, 2022

Ready for the Job: Twitterbot Recoded

3 min read - Lessons learned from converting an IBM Cloud Code Engine app to a job. Last year, I blogged about how to set up scheduled tasks on IBM Cloud with cron-like jobs. In that article, I discussed an app hosted on IBM…

January 18, 2022

Our Journey with Quarkus

8 min read - Quarkus truly appears to be the smartest possible solution, in our experience. The Java platform is an industry leader when it comes to portability and extensibility. It is also known for its support, maintainability and a rich set of libraries.…