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Introduction With the recent release of Grafana 8 a new opt-in feature for alerting has been made available. Grafana alerting has dramatically changed, and in my opinion, for the good. Why? Primarily due to the fact you are no longer limited to a dashboard. Alerts, rules, can be made directly in the alert manager tab. With this change in Grafana I was hoping to find a GO project that would consist of a REST API wrapper for this new feature; however, I could not find anything....

Introduction I feel a little late to the party, probably by half a decade or more, but nonetheless, I was recently tasked with creating a proof of concept - ecosystem for big data. With that said, my adventures began with configuring a compute instance on our cloud provider and installing docker/docker-compose. At which point, scouring the many documents and sites on “big data” I opted with Apache Hadoop, a well-known, reliable, scalable, distributed computing framework....

Introduction Hashicorp Boundary is a product in its infancy that is meant to allow for simple and secure remote access to your private hosts. An evolved version of SSH bastions and VPNs allowing RDP, SSH, Postgres and other commands to be easily used. At the moment, Boundary allows for several key management services (KMS) like OCI KMS, AWS KMS, etc; however, this article will focus using Vault, another product from Hashicorp....

Introduction In previous articles I introduced Packer and Terraform. In those two articles I did not discuss the files that were copied and executed remotely. To some degree, this will be the focus of this article in addition to configuring Nomad jobs. So to sum up quickly, I will briefly discuss the installation and configuration of Consul, Vault and Nomad to create a simple Nomad cluster on DigitalOcean. However, it is recommended to quickly go through the “Get Started Tutorials” for each product to get a better understanding....

Introduction Hashicorp’s Terraform is an infrastructure as code tool something like Ansible. However, here, I will be managing DigitalOcean resources where Terraform absolutely performs better than that of Ansible. Do not get be wrong I love Ansible and use it frequently. I want to quickly add that this article will be a part of a series of Hashicorp related articles. I will, in future, present/write on Nomad, Vault and Consul....