Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

Michael Kashin has a great article on how Open Virtual Network (OVN, part of the Open vSwitch project) implements virtual networks in OpenStack. Flatpak is a (relatively) new application packaging/sandboxing mechanism for Linux applications. Virtualization. x environment. Good advice.

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Scott Lowe

AUGUST 18, 2014

etcd is a distributed key-value store (more on that in a moment) and is one of the key technologies that I feel distinguishes CoreOS from other Linux distributions. Here’s a very simple example: using curl to recursively list the keys and values in a path within etcd: curl -X GET [link]. Linux CLI JSON OSS'

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Scott Lowe

JUNE 11, 2014

He makes comparisons among server virtualization, 10 Gigabit Ethernet, and SDN, and feels that in order for SDN to really hit this market it needs to be “not a user-facing feature, but rather a means to an end” (his words). Erik Smith at EMC has published a series of articles on “virtual storage networks.”

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Scott Lowe

AUGUST 20, 2014

The GitHub page for fleet describes it as a “distributed init system” that operates across a cluster of machines instead of on a single machine. OS X provides an SSH agent by default, but on Linux systems you will probably have to manually run an SSH agent and add the appropriate SSH key: eval `ssh-agent -s` ssh-add ~/.ssh/keyfile.pem.

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