Author: Shawn Jackson
I’ve spent the last 18 years in the world of Information Technology on both the IT and Development sides of the aisle. I’m currently a Software Engineer for Paylocity. In addition to working at Paylocity, I’m also the Founder of Resgrid, a cloud services company dedicated to providing logistics and management solutions to first responder organizations, volunteer and career fire departments, EMS, ambulance services, search and rescue, public safety, HAZMAT and others.
I’ve been working to get Resgrid stack running on Docker utilizing Kubernetes. My networks utilize a PFSense firewall running HAProxy that front connections for multiple domain names. Although I have some small static IP blocks dedicating 1 IP in a straight firewall passthrough is not ideal. For all my other setups HAProxy has been working
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For the Resgrid Open Source CAD system, I have a need to set configuration values normally managed by the configuration manager from an outside system. The requirement due to a centralized JSON config file that users can manage that flows through all the parts of the Computer Aided Dispatch system, instead of having to update
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As a developer, the choice to go to the cloud has always been pretty clear, do it! Why would anyone want to run their own machines. Cloud services like Azure and AWS have been a phenomenal boon to service delivery, options, and capabilities that developers like myself hoover up like it’s going out of style.
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