Blog de Joe Freeman

A coworker created a Chrome Extension that acts as a zero-infrastructure dashboard. It provides a simple home page that displays service health and support or documentation links related to that service.  The plugin reads JSON file/text to make service calls and build the dashboard. The following picture shows 5 services across up to 6 environments.  The top service does not have a Production environment. The bottom service represents a 3rd external service that has one test environment and one production environment. The  IsItUp  chrome executes health checks via HTTP/HTTPS calls.  The extension requires connectivity to the services being monitored. Video Walk-through The video explains various cell examples and describes how the extension might be used. The plugin used for the video was downloaded from the  Chrome Web Store  . Video created with version available Jan 21 2017 Cell Explanation Each cell contains one Service Status plu...

I'm working on a set of projects based in AWS. Our projects have somewhere between 7 and 9 different environments representing different levels of software maturity.  Production is the most restricted.  Development is the least restricted.  The rest fall somewhere in between. The company partitions the different levels of their SDLC into separate AWS accounts. Each account can have multiple environments that are of similar concerns and access controls. AWS account isolation makes it easy to identify and implement security rules and vary developer , dev-ops and operations access based on the account. The diagram at right shows a typical 3 account set-up where some of the accounts contain multiple environments. Our company actually has over 20 accounts used for various pre-prod, prod and partner purposes The AWS Console. The AWS console lets a user operate in a single account at one time.  Enterprise users log into the AWS console with Federated User ids tha...