Scott Lowe

JANUARY 17, 2020

I hope that everyone had a wonderful holiday season, but now it’s time to jump back into the fray with a collection of technical articles from around the Internet. Eric Sloof mentions the NSX-T load balancing encyclopedia (found here ), which intends to be an authoritative resource to NSX-T load balancing configuration and management.

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

As usual, I’ve collected some articles and links from around the Internet pertaining to various data center- and cloud-related topics. The Kubernetes project recently underwent a security audit; more information on the audit, along with links to the findings and other details, is available here. Perhaps this article can help.

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Scott Lowe

AUGUST 27, 2021

I never found the root cause, but we did find a workaround; however, along the way, someone shared this article with me. Dan Lorenc’s article on policy and attestations does a great job of covering key concepts like signatures, attestations, and provenance. Operating Systems/Applications. Servers/Hardware. Good stuff.

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Scott Lowe

AUGUST 6, 2021

Here’s a quick look at using Envoy as a load balancer in Kubernetes. I saw this blog post about Curiefense , an open source Envoy extension to add WAF (web application firewall) functionality to Envoy. This is a thorny topic full of design considerations, and this AWS article discusses a few of them. Networking.

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Scott Lowe

JUNE 18, 2021

The first is a post on Cilium and F5 load balancer integration , while the second discusses implementing Kubernetes network policies with Cilium and Linkerd. John Gruber’s post on “Secure Intent” on Apple devices was, for me at least, an informative read. Operating Systems/Applications. Check this out.

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Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 14, 2017

Christopher Davis has an article discussing a recommended VPC subnet configuration. This is, of course, just one way of handling subnets within a VPC, but some of the principles outlined in Christopher’s article are definitely sound. This article is pretty high-level; I wish it had a bit more depth to it. Networking.

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Scott Lowe

AUGUST 17, 2018

Welcome to Technology Short Take 103, where I’m back yet again with a collection of links and articles from around the World Wide Web (Ha! If you’re not familiar with VPCs and associated AWS constructs, you should read this article. You may also find this related article (linked within Scott’s post) to be helpful.

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Scott Lowe

JUNE 21, 2019

Here’s a fresh new collection of links and articles from the around the web to propel myself back into blogging. These two articles are interesting (to me) because they combine both network automation and Kubernetes. David Holder walks through removing unused load balancer IP allocations in NSX-T when used with PKS.

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Cloud Musings

DECEMBER 11, 2015

PaaS provides a platform allowing customers to develop, run, and manage web applications without the complexity of building and maintaining the infrastructure. Its unique power is associated with developing and deploying applications.

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Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

Here’s another collection of links and articles from around the Internet discussing various data center-focused technologies. The Pivotal Engineering blog has an article that shows how to use BOSH with the vSphere CPI to automate adding servers to an NSX load balancing pool. Operating Systems/Applications.

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Scott Lowe

JULY 13, 2018

It looks like there will be a follow-up to this article as well, so you may want to check back on Ajay’s site. Bernd Malmqvist talks about Avi Networks’ software-defined load balancing solution, including providing an overview of how to use Vagrant to test it yourself. Operating Systems/Applications.

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Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

Continuing on that Envoy theme, you may find this article by Matt Klein—one of the primary authors of Envoy—helpful in understanding some of the concepts behind modern load balancing and proxying. From an unknown author, we have this security rant on Flatpak. Operating Systems/Applications. Good stuff!

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Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 24, 2018

Nevertheless, I have persevered in order to deliver you this list of links and articles. Viktor van den Berg writes on deploying NSX load balancers with vRA. This doesn’t make me feel very secure. And he provides a GitHub repository with samples from the article.). Operating Systems/Applications.

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Vmware Load Balancer Network Open Source 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

Vincent Bernat has a really in-depth article on IPv4 route lookup on Linux (and one on IPv6 route lookup as well). Ivan Pepelnjak has a great article that tries to get to the kernel of truth in the middle of the intent-based networking hype. Operating Systems/Applications. Here’s hoping you find something useful!

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Scott Lowe

JUNE 8, 2018

Kamal Kyrala discusses a method for accessing Kubernetes Services without Ingress, NodePort, or load balancers. His points are spot-on: making the control plane highly available isn’t going to improve the availability or scalability of your applications. Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization.

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Scott Lowe

APRIL 6, 2017

I have another collection of links, articles, and thoughts about key data center technologies, and hopefully I’ve managed to include something here that will prove useful or thought-provoking. Konstantin Ryabitsev has a series going on securing a SysAdmin Linux workstation. Operating Systems/Applications. Networking.

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Vmware Linux Storage Network 60

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 17, 2015

Before I present this episode’s collection of links, articles, and thoughts on various data center technologies, allow me to first wish all of my readers a very merry and very festive holiday season. Mustafa Akin has an article on Docker’s new overlay networking functionality. Now, on to the content! Networking.

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Vmware Linux Architecture Hardware 60

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

Russell Bryant has a couple great articles on OVN— how to test OVN’s “EZ Bake” release with DevStack as well as an article on implementing OpenStack security groups using OVN ACLs (which in turn leverage the integration between Open vSwitch and the Linux kernel’s conntrack module). Operating Systems/Applications.

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Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 5, 2012

Welcome to Technology Short Take #25, my irregularly-published collection of links, articles, thoughts, and rants. Operating Systems/Applications. According to this article by Rick Vanover, this feature allows you to protect your network against rogue/unauthorized DHCP servers. my apologies for that. Servers/Hardware.

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Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 10, 2021

For now, though, I have a small collection of articles and links for your reading pleasure—not as many as I usually include in a Technology Short Take, but better than nothing at all (I hope!). Rory McCune of Aqua shares some new security-related features in the Kubernetes 1.23 Operating Systems/Applications. Networking.

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 12, 2023

This method efficiently bypassed traditional security measures, flooding servers and disrupting services. Google also added this reference point: "For a sense of scale, this two minute attack generated more requests than the total number of article views reported by Wikipedia during the entire month of September 2023."

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KineticData

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

This article delves into our path to operational excellence, achieved by strategically incorporating automation and DevOps practices. By choosing containerization of our application components, we’ve removed the uncertainties and complexities of the underlying infrastructure.

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Dataconomy

APRIL 28, 2023

Machine learning deployment is a crucial step in bringing the benefits of data science to real-world applications. In this article, we will explore the top machine learning deployment tools and platforms that can help organizations streamline their deployment process, improve model performance, and achieve their business goals.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 17, 2013

Paul Speciale is Chief Marketing Officer at Appcara , which is a provider of a model-based cloud application platform. Numerous IT management tools are available today for use with the cloud, but the rubber meets the road at the level of the application because this is what a user will actually “use.” Cloud Application Management.

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Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

If you haven’t read that post or aren’t familiar with the requirements for setting up a Kubernetes cluster with the AWS cloud provider, I strongly recommend you go read the linked article. You can use the kubeadm configuration files in the August 2019 article for your nodes as a basis/starting point. Bootstrap the Cluster.

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Internet Load Balancer Cloud System 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

NFV is intended to address the problem caused by having to route/direct traffic from various sources through physical appliances designed to provide services like content filtering, security, content delivery/acceleration, and load balancing. This article was originally posted on blog.scottlowe.org.

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Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

Welcome to Technology Short Take #48, another installation in my irregularly-published series that collects links, articles, and thoughts from around the web. This time around, the content is a bit heavier on cloud management and applications/operating systems, but still lots of good content all the way around (I hope, anyway).

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Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 6, 2012

Mirantis published an article discussing a framework they built for bare-metal provisioning with OpenStack that allows OpenStack to place workloads onto bare-metal nodes instead of onto a hypervisor. I don’t have anything for this area this time around, but I’ll stay alert for articles to add next time. Servers/Hardware.

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Dataconomy

MAY 22, 2023

In this article, we will explore the concept of distributed learning and its significance in the realm of machine learning. This scalability is particularly valuable in scenarios where real-time or near-real-time predictions are needed or when dealing with large-scale datasets, such as those encountered in big data applications.

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Fountainhead

OCTOBER 6, 2009

A specific angle I want to address here is that of infrastructure automation ; that is, the dynamic manipulation of physical resources (virtualized or not) such as I/O, networking, load balancing, and storage connections - Sometimes referred to as "Infrastructure 2.0". a Fabric), and network switches, load balancers, etc.

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Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 16, 2013

In 2003, I founded Blue Box from my college dorm room to be a managed hosting company focused on overcoming the complexities of highly customized open source infrastructure running high traffic web applications. These organizations are deploying applications into hosted private clouds, seeing the value proposition that can bring.

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