Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

The folks over at Cilium took a look at a recent CNI benchmark comparison and unpacked it a bit. Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization. Next is an older article from Patrick Ogenstad that provides an introduction to ZTP (Zero Touch Provisioning). There’s some good information in their article.

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Network Resources Devops Vmware 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 23, 2017

Gabriele Gerbino has a nice write-up about Cisco’s efforts with APIs ; his article includes a brief description of YANG data models and a comparison of working with network devices via SSH or via API. Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization. installation caused by duplicate NSX Manager UUIDs.

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Scott Lowe

JULY 13, 2018

Operating Systems/Applications. This article on another reason your Docker containers may be slow was an excellent reminder that containerization is not equal to virtualization (that doesn’t make it better or worse, just different), and therefore can’t be treated the same. Virtualization. on a vSphere 6.7

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Scott Lowe

JANUARY 14, 2016

Cumulus VX, if you aren’t aware, is a community-supported virtual appliance version of Cumulus Linux aimed at helping folks preview and test “full-blown” Cumulus Linux (which, of course, requires compatible hardware). Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization. Have I mentioned the ESXi Virtual Appliance ?

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 8, 2016

Cue the round of folks claiming that this is why proprietary network operating systems [NOSes] are the route the networking industry should be taking.). Cumulus Networks recently shifted their pricing and licensing model toward perpetual licenses; this article has more information and a comparison of the old vs. new models.

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Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

I share this not to encourage illegal activities, but instead to point out that no operating system is secure, so be alert at all times and use good computing practices regardless of your OS. Steven Acreman shares a brief, high-level comparison of the major Kubernetes ingress solutions. Operating Systems/Applications.

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Load Balancer Operating Systems Intel Hardware 60

Scott Lowe

MAY 3, 2019

Diógenes Rettori has a comparison of Istio and Linkerd as solutions for service mesh. Operating Systems/Applications. Jim Handy (“The SSD Guy”) has a four-part series (I think only three parts have been published as of this post) on the two different operating modes for Intel’s Optane DIMMs (persistent memory).

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Scott Lowe

JULY 21, 2016

Kevin Houston has an updated blade server comparison chart that might be helpful in making hardware decisions. Operating Systems/Applications. The first article describes Hitchhiker itself, while the second article discusses the related topic of the network impact of recovery in erased coded storage environments.

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Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 24, 2018

VPCs, or Virtual Private Clouds, are Amazon’s software-defined networking mechanism for workloads running on AWS.). Courtesy of Corey Quinn, here’s an awesome AWS versus Azure comparison , comic book style. Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization. This is a pretty interesting use case for Docker.

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Scott Lowe

MAY 25, 2017

Anthony Shaw has a good comparison of Ansible, StackStorm, and Salt (with a particular view at applicability in a networking context). Operating Systems/Applications. I was recently reviewing some articles on Git, the popular distributed version control system, and came across a few related posts. Virtualization.

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Linux Open Source Network Vmware 60

Scott Lowe

MAY 25, 2017

Anthony Shaw has a good comparison of Ansible, StackStorm, and Salt (with a particular view at applicability in a networking context). Operating Systems/Applications. I was recently reviewing some articles on Git, the popular distributed version control system, and came across a few related posts. Virtualization.

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Scott Lowe

JANUARY 6, 2018

Jorge Salamero Sanz (on behalf of Sysdig) provides a similar comparison, this time looking at ECS, Fargate, and EKS. Operating Systems/Applications. It almost makes me want to add a Windows 10 machine to my collection… I enjoyed this developer-centric comparison of Kubernetes and Pivotal Cloud Foundry.

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 17, 2016

Operating Systems/Applications. Personally, I think it’s an apples-to-oranges comparison, since Kubernetes is more than just a scheduler (think about replication controllers and services and such), but to each his own. Finally, you might find the VMware Virtual SAN 6.2 Virtualization.

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Scott Lowe

APRIL 24, 2015

This article by Russell Bryant is a great overview and update of the work going on with Open Virtual Network (OVN). This is kind of cool, and (in my humble opinion) a sign of changing times: Juniper has Vagrant boxes as well as a Vagrant plugin for working with vSRX (virtual firewall) VMs (via this article from Matt Oswalt).

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 30, 2018

Tirumarai Selvan has a comparison. Operating Systems/Applications. Hmmm…maybe I could install Windows 10 on my quad-proc Mac Pro, then run macOS virtualized on it…that might be something to try one day (as if I’ll ever have time for that!). Virtualization.

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Scott Lowe

AUGUST 16, 2017

Anthony Shaw has a good comparison of Ansible, StackStorm, and Salt (with a particular view at applicability in a networking context). Operating Systems/Applications. I was recently reviewing some articles on Git, the popular distributed version control system, and came across a few related posts. Virtualization.

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Open Source Network Linux Engineering 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 26, 2017

Operating Systems/Applications. Need a comparison of CloudFormation versus Terraform? Virtualization. I guess it’s not really fair of me to make this statement, given that kube-spawn is focused on local Kubernetes clusters for testing and development. It does seem, though, that Kubernetes deployment tools abound.

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Sean Daniel

MAY 25, 2012

and I thought it would be great to do a little bit of a comparison now that I’ve played with it for a bit. So let’s get down to business, my impressions and comparisons between the iPad (3rd generation) and the Playbook 2.0. You can even use it as temporary storage while you travel. This comparison is helpful.

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 10, 2015

What’s really interesting to me is the (completely uncoordinated) alignment between Matt’s list of skills for networking pros and the list I provided to virtualization pros in a series of recent VMUG presentations (refer to slide 15, but the list is software development basics, Linux, automation/orchestration, and public cloud services).

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Scott Lowe

APRIL 2, 2021

Operating Systems/Applications. This post from Enterprise Storage Forum attempts to provide a comparison of cloud storage between AWS and Google Cloud. Virtualization. If you’re a DynamoDB user, check out this list of 29 DynamoDB best practices compiled by Rafal Wilinski. Check out cloudlist.

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Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 6, 2012

Operating Systems/Applications. I found this article on imperative vs. declarative system configuration is quite helpful in understanding Puppet’s declarative model. Virtualization. QEMU, on the other hand, is needed to emulate everything else that a VM needs: networking, storage, USB, keyboard, mouse, etc.

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 5, 2013

Ben Cherian, Chief Strategy Officer for Midokura, helps make a case for network virtualization. Note: Midokura makes a network virtualization solution.) If you’re wondering about network virtualization and why there is a focus on it, this post might help shed some light. Operating Systems/Applications.

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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). Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization. Technology Short Take #42.

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Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 22, 2015

Here’s hoping I’ve managed to find something of value and interest to you in this latest collection of links and articles from around the web on networking, storage, virtualization, security, and other data center-related technologies. Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization. Networking.

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