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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…

With the arrival of the Apple Mac M1 Arm Chipsets, having a development environment that works for everyone became a little trickier. First off, Virtualbox doesn’t run on Apple Mac M1 Arm Chipsets. …

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’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…

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…

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…

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. …

“The Borg’s primary objective is to assimilate species into their collective consciousness for their betterment” “The Borg cube is one of the most formidable technologies known to the Federation. Its lack of identifiable function spaces — such as a bridge, engineering, or personnel quarters — reveals the hive-like Borg collective…