Caleb M Keller

I’ve started my home lab kubernetes build. I’ve got 8 older HP machines that I’m working to install linux and kubernetes on. I got tired of not having enough kubernetes experience so I decided to get it by doing this fun project.

Here I go again, turning one idea into multiple pieces of content following Justin Welsh’s concept. I like typing these out long form here first and then cutting it up into individual LinkedIn and Twitter posts.

From my time in and around Analytics, Data, and AI I’ve seen more projects fail than I care to count. hell, I’ve lead or been a part of too many projects that have failed. Here are a few high level observations how and when projects fail.

If you’re on LinkedIn, there’s a good chance you’ve ran across one of Justin Welsh’s posts. I’ve been a follower and subscriber of his for some time now. I have always liked his idea of being able to generate multiple posts from a single Idea.

Full disclosure, this is actually were my Terraform journey began. I had a customer who was going to need to create monitoring clusters in many regions across multiple providers. I wanted a single Terraform script that could create all of the monitoring clusters, as well as a CCS (Cross Cluster Search) cluster to bring all of the monitoring data together.

It all started with a weather station, specifically I have the WS2000 from Ambient Weather. Well a recent update of the firmware on the base station allows for a push of weather data to a custom endpoint, but only to a local endpoint. So how then do I get it to a cloud hosted NodeRed?

This is a follow on post to [[First Elastic Cluster with Terraform]], it’s best practice to monitor your Elasticsearch clusters with a dedicated monitoring cluster. I’m going to take the example we started with in my first Terraform post and add a monitoring cluster to it.

For my day job with Elastic, I have had several customers deploying their clusters with Terraform. I have no experience using Terraform and so I thought it would be worth some investigation.