Setting up Turbonomic Action Notifications to Slack Channels

An interesting use-case that I’ve bumped into lately is where folks want to enable automation, but they also need to know when automated things happen. Email was the common platform for notifications, and still is, but there are many more organizations adoption Slack for day-to-day activity monitoring and building out interesting interactive ways to enable … Read more

Got Logs? Get a PaperTrail: First thoughts

I stumbled upon Papertrail through a Twitter Ad (hey, those things work sometimes!) and figured that I should take a quick look. Given the amount of work I’ve been doing around compliance management and deployment of distributed systems, this seems like it may be an interesting fit. Luckily, they have a free tier as well … Read more

Turbonomic Technical Poster Goodness

As a long-time fan of the technical posters that came out of the vCommunity and PowerShell community, I was very happy to have a chance to work with Rene Van Den Bedem (aka @VCDX133) on something fun at Turbonomic.  Rene and I teamed up to craft the first official Turbonomic Technical poster for Turbonomic version … Read more

One Vault to Secure Them All: HashiCorp Releases Vault Enterprise 0.7

There are a few key reasons that you need to look at Vault by HashiCorp. If you’re in the business of IT on the Operations or the Development side of the aisle, you should already be looking at the entire HashiCorp ecosystem of tools. Vault is probably one that has my eye the most lately … Read more