Do you know where your Jira is hosted? Does it live on that computer under your IT guy's desk? Is it in your company's data center? Is it hosted in a public cloud like Amazon Web Services (AWS)?

It's something many[...]

If you want to run your own Synchrony cluster for Confluence Data Center or you are running in a version that does not provide the "Managed by Confluence" option and still automating the creation / spin up process.

Anybody who has implemented Confluence Data Center 6.0 through 6.11 likely knows that Atlassian has made huge strides in how Synchrony is deployed. But none of those strides have been as awesome as the change introduced[...]

We've been on-boarding more Technical Consultants lately and we've been improving how we introduce them to our technology stack. We had a need to have a learning environment for two technologies:

I love watching baseball. It's relaxing, it makes sense (most of the time) and the teams that win are usually talented and resourceful.

We here at Isos are big fans of Ansible and HashiCorp Packer. We use these tools (among others) to build pipelines that create custom images (including AMIs) for many of our Data Center implementations. During this[...]

In previous blogs I've mentioned how much we love Ansible here at Isos. One of the ways we develop and use our internal roles is via a Vagrant Multi-Machine setup. This multi-machine setup allows us to spin up multiple [...]

During AWS implementations we've always used an Elastic Load Balancer (ELB) in the public subnets in order to route traffic to the application instances in the private subnet. NGINX lived on the application instances.[...]

With Atlassian's announcement of the replacement of HipChat and Stride with Slack, Isos Technology was left with the question of what to do. We have been using HipChat as our primary ChatOps tool from the beginning. We[...]

With the proliferation of the AWS infrastructure as code model, saying that a system follows a standard deployment model can be a loaded statement. True, the basis for the system architecture can be found in one or[...]