Scott Lowe

JANUARY 12, 2015

I just saw the news that Citrix has acquired Sanbolic , a storage virtualization company that I’ve written about before. KVM seems to be the open source hypervisor of choice while VMware’s vSphere continues to dominate (for now) the commercial market—leaving XenServer with leftovers. TechCrunch also has a quick write-up as well.)

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Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 9, 2022

With this announcement of Cilium support within AKS, Cilium is now available in managed Kubernetes offerings across all three major cloud providers. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Ricardo Sueiras captured some great links on open source at AWS in this newsletter. Operating Systems/Applications.

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Scott Lowe

AUGUST 6, 2021

I saw this blog post about Curiefense , an open source Envoy extension to add WAF (web application firewall) functionality to Envoy. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. I really enjoy these AWS open source news and updates posts. Operating Systems/Applications. Servers/Hardware.

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Scott Lowe

JANUARY 27, 2023

I’ve got another collection of links to articles on networking, security, cloud, programming, and career development—hopefully you find something useful! Operating Systems/Applications Dewan Ahmed has a great run-down on options for documentation-as-code. Welcome to Technology Short Take #164!

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Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 31, 2021

This is useful, in my opinion, because now platform operators have a “starting point” on the specific threats they need to try to mitigate. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Operating Systems/Applications. I found this article on NSO/Pegasus a very interesting read. Virtualization. Career/Soft Skills.

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Open Source Virtualization Applications Security 94

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 27, 2019

Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Seth Vargo walks through how to use Terraform to setup and configure a Google Cloud Run service. Operating Systems/Applications. Continuing his focus on cloud-init , Luc Dekens has added four more articles to his site discussing this tool. Operating Systems/Applications.

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Linux Academy

JUNE 25, 2019

By adding free cloud training to our Community Membership, students can develop their Linux and Cloud skills even further. Cloud Security Fundamentals. The cloud has brought about tons of innovation and features. Serverless has been gaining momentum as cloud technology continues to become more widespread.

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Scott Lowe

MAY 27, 2022

Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. marks the first release of the open source container orchestration platform that is signed using Sigstore (more details here ). Here’s a user’s perspective on using infracost to bring cloud spend into your Terraform worfklows. Operating Systems/Applications.

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Virtualization Storage Network Programming 79

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Over the last few weeks, I’ve been collecting articles I wanted to share with readers on major areas in technology: networking, security, storage, virtualization, cloud computing, and OSes/applications. Denis Mulyalin shows how to use Nornir, Salt, and NetBox to template your network tests.

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Programming Policies Network Cloud 96

Scott Lowe

JUNE 24, 2022

Tetragon is Isovalent’s newly open-sourced security framework. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Operating Systems/Applications. BPFDoor, as it is known, is a passive backdoor that allows threat actors to remotely connect to a Linux shell. Check out this write-up. Think PDF files are safe? Think again.

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Vmware Linux Storage Virtualization 74

Kitaboo

APRIL 1, 2024

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Software Software eBook Adobe 78

Scott Lowe

MARCH 23, 2017

As opposed to just encrypting data at the transport level (although Acra does that between components of its architecture) or just encrypting data at the storage level (using an encrypted file system or similar), Acra targets encrypting data at the table/row/column level within a database. Acra is open source and available via GitHub.

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Linux Academy

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

To continually support your mission to learn and grow, we are always adding new, free courses and resources for developing Linux and Cloud skills. Students will learn by doing through installing and configuring containers and thoughtfully selecting a persistent storage strategy. Google Cloud Essentials (NEW). YAML Essentials.

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Linux Academy

APRIL 30, 2019

By adding free cloud training to our Community Membership, students have the opportunity to develop their Linux and Cloud skills further. LPI Linux Essentials — This course teaches the basic concepts of processes, programs, and the components of the Linux operating system. Courses Free in May. What is AWS?

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Scott Lowe

AUGUST 6, 2021

I saw this blog post about Curiefense , an open source Envoy extension to add WAF (web application firewall) functionality to Envoy. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. I really enjoy these AWS open source news and updates posts. Operating Systems/Applications. Servers/Hardware.

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 1, 2019

I’m a couple weeks late on this one; wanted to publish it earlier but work has been keeping me busy (lots and lots of interest in Kubernetes and cloud-native technologies out there!). VyOS is an open source Linux-based network operating system.). Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Networking.

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Operating Systems Authentication Network Open Source 60

Scott Lowe

APRIL 19, 2019

Part 2 of Stark and Wayne’s container-to-container networking for Cloud Foundry and Kubernetes dig deep into CNI workings. This article discusses four open source secrets management tools. Many organizations prefer to use two-factor authentication (2FA) to help protect their systems. Networking. configurations.

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Open Source Tools Policies Cloud 60

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Components involved include the open source Kuma service mesh (in turn leveraging Envoy), anycast BGP, and mutual TLS (mTLS). Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. It’s a shame the site doesn’t appear to have an RSS/Atom feed… Operating Systems/Applications. Yes, please.

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Storage Hardware Policies Open Source 79

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 22, 2012

Lots of folks like using Dropbox , the ubiquitous store-and-sync cloud storage service; I am among them. To help address that, I looked around to find an open, interoperable way of adding an extra layer of encryption onto my data. A Mac port of the open source EncFS FUSE filesystem. Background.

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Open Source Storage Guidelines Security 154

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 29, 2016

Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Kit Colbert shares 5 predictions for cloud-native applications in 2017. The “TL;DR” is that Google’s efforts around Kubernetes make it easier for customers to switch to their cloud, and their work around machine learning is the “carrot” that will bring them over. Virtualization.

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Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 5, 2018

Sathyajith Bhat covers five open source tools for container security. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Many times that’s in the context of a public cloud (since that’s where I spend most of my time), but here’s an example of using it for vSphere and OpenStack. Operating Systems/Applications.

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Hardware Open Source Vmware Linux 60

Scott Lowe

JULY 5, 2019

As would be expected with any maturing open source project that is starting to see increased adoption, Kubernetes has seen its share of security vulnerabilities over the last couple of months. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Operating Systems/Applications. It provides the basics behind X.509v3

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Scott Lowe

JANUARY 19, 2018

Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. The VMware Cloud-Native Apps group has a breakdown of some of the new features/functionality found in the 1.9 Via Maish Saidel-Keesing, I saw this post about 10 open source Kubernetes tools for highly effective SRE and Ops teams. Operating Systems/Applications.

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Scott Lowe

MAY 17, 2019

Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. The CNCF blog has a great article written by an Alibaba software engineer (Xingyu Chen) on some performance optimizations for etcd that have been contributed back to the open source community. Operating Systems/Applications. seems appropriate to include.

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Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Open source has become so critical to so many aspects of our computing infrastructure. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. I recently stumbled across Ricardo Sueiras’ “AWS open source news and updates” posts. Adrian’s operational review readiness template is another great post as well.

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Scott Lowe

MAY 3, 2019

Via the Kubernetes blog , Box announced it has open sourced a project called kube-iptables-tailer , which turns packet drops from iptables into Kubernetes events that can be logged for easier troubleshooting. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Operating Systems/Applications. Networking.

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Scott Lowe

JANUARY 14, 2016

This is a fascinating (to me, at least) paper on the implications of non-volatile storage on today’s data centers (and data center hardware). Micro-segmentation is one of those terms (like SDN, cloud, DevOps, etc.) VMware open-sourced an identity and access management service called Lightwave ( project web site , GitHub repo ).

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Scott Lowe

APRIL 15, 2022

Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Operating Systems/Applications. And it’s publicly available on GitHub , although not licensed with a typical open source license. Ouch— another Azure vulnerability that allows cross-account access. Levent Ogut takes a deep dive into Kubernetes init containers.

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Linux Load Balancer IPv6 Licensing 74

Galido

JULY 20, 2018

Many iPhone users and Apple fanboys alike stand by their product no matter how limited Apple makes their storage capacities, while Android geeks have long time been able to freely add storage/memory cards to their devices and take advantage of more powerful hardware. Galaxy S8 base storage starts at 64GB, while Apple’s is 32GB.

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Scott Lowe

MAY 25, 2017

Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Even with public cloud and managed services, you can’t avoid good old-fashioned data management processes.” Cloud computing does make some things easier—but it doesn’t eliminate other necessary tasks and design considerations. Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization.

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Linux Open Source Network Vmware 60

Scott Lowe

MAY 25, 2017

Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Even with public cloud and managed services, you can’t avoid good old-fashioned data management processes.” Cloud computing does make some things easier—but it doesn’t eliminate other necessary tasks and design considerations. Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization.

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Linux Open Source Network Vmware 60

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 8, 2016

Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Sirish Raghuram has some thoughts on the VMware-AWS announcement (about VMware Cloud on AWS) compared to the “Omni” announcement at the OpenStack Summit in Barcelona. Subbu Allamaraju makes his position pretty clear: don’t build private clouds. Operating Systems/Applications.

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Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 6, 2013

Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Operating Systems/Applications. While written for OS X, most of these tips apply to Linux or other Unix-like operating systems as well. Duncan Epping has a quick post about a VMware KB article update regarding EMC VPLEX and Storage DRS/Storage IO Control.

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Scott Lowe

APRIL 24, 2020

Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. I recently stumbled across this regular list of AWS open source news and updates by Ricardo Sueiras. Operating Systems/Applications. Cody Hosterman, of Pure Storage, takes a look at Pure Storage’s support of the recently-released vSphere 7.

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Storage Architecture Tools Network 60

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 17, 2020

Guiliano Bertello introduces PowerVCF , a PowerCLI module aimed at interacting with the SDDC Manager and VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) stack. (If Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Eric Shanks has a good walkthrough on setting up a Kubernetes cluster on AWS with the AWS cloud provider enabled. This is kind of cool.

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Kitaboo

DECEMBER 22, 2022

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Windows eBook Adobe Cloud 78

Scott Lowe

MAY 4, 2017

Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Craig McLuckie shares his perspective on multi-cloud. Operating Systems/Applications. Ryan Kelly shows readers how to configure Harbor (open source container registry project) to use Amazon S3 for storage. Want to keep your PowerShell Core up to date?

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