Scott Lowe

APRIL 15, 2022

Servers/Hardware. Cabling is hardware, right? If you’re unfamiliar with SSH SOCKS proxying, read this to get up to speed (or use your favorite web search engine, there are many articles out there on this topic). Ajeet Singh Raina shares a list of the top 200 Kubernetes tools for DevOps engineers. Version 3.8.0

Linux 74

Linux Load Balancer IPv6 Licensing 74

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

The rise of the disaggregated network operating system (NOS) marches on: this time, it’s Big Switch Networks announcing expanded hardware support in Open Network Linux (ONL) , upon which its own NOS is based. Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. Networking. Nothing this time around, sorry!

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Storage Load Balancer 60

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

Both the hardware as well as the software have served me well. Both the hardware as well as the software have served me well. I adopted OS X as my operating system of choice in 2003 because I wanted a stable, powerful, UNIX-based operating system. For the most part, OS X has delivered that over the years.

Operating Systems 131

Operating Systems Apple Applications Linux 131

Scott Lowe

MARCH 2, 2020

Said van de Klundert has a post on screen scraping basics for network engineers. For network engineers just getting started with network automation, I suspect that the information shared here may prove quite useful. Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. Networking. That’s cool. Not cool , Wacom.

Linux 60

Linux Windows Hardware Network 60

GeekWire

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

“Whether companies are pursuing space ventures of their own or maturing cutting-edge systems to one day offer a new service to NASA, the agency is dedicated to helping bring new capabilities to market for our mutual benefit.”. Northrop Grumman Space Systems) of Dulles, Va., Northrop Grumman Space Systems) of Dulles, Va.,

Research 114

Research System Development Energy 114

Scott Lowe

MARCH 1, 2019

Daniel Dib has a great article on how network engineers need to evolve. I referenced part 1 of Ajay Chenampara’s series on the Ansible network-engine command parser back in Technology Short Take 102 (July of last year). VyOS is an open source Linux-based network operating system.). Servers/Hardware.

Operating Systems 60

Operating Systems Authentication Network Open Source 60

Scott Lowe

JUNE 2, 2016

Russ White tackles the issue of networking engineers needing to learn to code. Dmitri Kalintsev examines some options for addressing storage-related connectivity in NSX environments. Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. More information on the script is in his blog post. Is it necessary?

Vmware 60

Vmware Virtualization Linux Windows 60

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Justin Pietsch Has a lengthy article on why network engineers need to focus on getting the network out of the way. Servers/Hardware. Kaizhe Huang examines Falco versus AuditD from a host intrusion detection system (HIDS) perspective. Eclypsium discusses ways of protecting system firmware storage. Networking.

Vmware 60

Vmware Storage Study Network 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 6, 2021

Servers/Hardware. If I had one criticism, it would be Chip’s use of “programming language” instead of DSL for Rego—but that’s truly nitpicking what otherwise is a very useful article for folks trying to determine which policy engine they should consider and evaluate. Operating Systems/Applications.

Open Source 60

Open Source Load Balancer WAN Architecture 60

Scott Lowe

JUNE 8, 2018

Servers/Hardware. AWS adds local NVMe storage to the M5 instance family; more details here. What I found interesting is that the local NVMe storage is also hardware encrypted. Daniel Steinberg takes a look inside Firefox’s DOH (DNS over HTTPS) engine , slated to be included in the Firefox 62 release.

Load Balancer 60

Load Balancer Vmware Storage Intel 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 7, 2014

Servers/Hardware. Another interesting tidbit regarding hardware: it seems as if we are now seeing the emergence of another round of “hardware offloads.” This next round of hardware offloads seems targeted at network virtualization and related technologies. Operating Systems/Applications.

Virtualization 60

Virtualization Hardware Intel Vmware 60

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

This post by Matt Oswalt—the first in a series, apparently—provides a great introduction to 5 development tools for network engineers. Servers/Hardware. While all the attention is “up the stack,” there are still some occasions when you need to worry about the details in the hardware. Networking.

Vmware 69

Vmware Linux Storage Virtualization 69

Scott Lowe

MAY 25, 2017

Miguel Gómez of Telefónica Engineering discusses maximizing performance in VXLAN overlay networks. Nicolas Michel has a good post on the transition from network engineer v1.0 to v2.0 , and some of the skillsets he believes network engineers must embrace moving forward. Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications.

Linux 60

Linux Open Source Network Vmware 60

Scott Lowe

MAY 25, 2017

Miguel Gómez of Telefónica Engineering discusses maximizing performance in VXLAN overlay networks. Nicolas Michel has a good post on the transition from network engineer v1.0 to v2.0 , and some of the skillsets he believes network engineers must embrace moving forward. Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications.

Linux 60

Linux Open Source Network Vmware 60

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

Servers/Hardware. The Intel Management Engine (ME) has received a bit of attention as a potential security vulnerability; in this article , authors Maxim Goryachy and Mark Ermolov expose some new concerns around the Intel ME and its undocumented Manufacturing Mode. Operating Systems/Applications. Good stuff!

Load Balancer 60

Load Balancer Operating Systems Intel Hardware 60

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

see below in the “Operating Systems/Applications” section), Metaswitch has announced a Container Networking Interface (CNI) plugin for Project Calico. Servers/Hardware. Colin Lynch gives a “first look” at the Cisco UCS Generation 3 hardware , which may be of interest if you’re a UCS customer or looking at purchasing UCS.

Vmware 60

Vmware Network Operating Systems Virtualization 60

Scott Lowe

JULY 21, 2016

Servers/Hardware. Kevin Houston has an updated blade server comparison chart that might be helpful in making hardware decisions. Operating Systems/Applications. Want to get geeky with storage protocol stacks ? Want to get geeky with storage protocol stacks ? Three more posts are planned. Thanks Jason!

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Storage Hardware 60

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Uh oh… more hardware exploits. Adrian Hornsby shows how to use AWS Systems Manager Automation to perform chaos engineering experiments. Adrian’s operational review readiness template is another great post as well. Operating Systems/Applications. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Virtualization.

Linux 60

Linux Vmware Open Source Examples 60

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 8, 2017

David Gee’s “network automation engineer persona” content continues; this time he tackles some thoughts around proof-of-concepts (PoCs). Servers/Hardware. Both articles are worth reviewing if hardware selection is an important aspect of your role. Operating Systems/Applications.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Network Cloud 60

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 6, 2019

Servers/Hardware. Nothing this time around, although there may have been some hardware-related news coming out of re:Invent that I missed (such as new generations of AWS-designed chips being announced). A new VPN security flaw has been uncovered that affects a wide range of UNIX- and Linux-based systems. Virtualization.

Vmware 60

Vmware Network Linux Hardware 60

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

The recent announcement of their GraphQL-based Network Query Engine (NQE)—more information is available in this blog post —is also pretty interesting to me. Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. Panagiotis Georgiadis explains how to enable PSP (Pod Security Policies) with Traefik. Virtualization.

Network 60

Network Resources Devops Vmware 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. This checklist is described as a “senior engineer’s checklist,” but it seems to be pretty applicable to most technology jobs these days. Unfortunately, this appears to be GKE-specific. Nothing this time around. Perhaps this article can help.

Load Balancer 60

Load Balancer Cloud Applications Vmware 60

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

I particularly liked his (mini-)rant about how network automation can’t be only about making the network engineer’s life easier. Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. Nick Korte shares some “lessons learned” as his team explored VMware vSAN as a storage solution.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Network Storage 60

Scott Lowe

MAY 17, 2019

Servers/Hardware. 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. Networking. Michael Allen published an article on weaponizing the Yubikey.

Linux 60

Linux Dell Open Source Licensing 60

Scott Lowe

APRIL 19, 2019

Servers/Hardware. ” Operating Systems/Applications. Tonis Tiigi has a write-up on experimenting with rootless Docker over on the Docker Engineering blog. Via Ivan Pepelnjak’s site, Albert Siersema shares some information on using Ansible to automate 802.1x configurations. Nothing this time around!

Open Source 60

Open Source Tools Policies Cloud 60

Scott Lowe

JUNE 29, 2016

If you like geeking out over the hardware side of networking, you may find this Ars Technica article on the physical infrastructure of the global Internet to be an interesting read. (I Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. Here’s Eric Shanks’ thoughts on being a full stack engineer. Career/Soft Skills.

Linux 60

Linux Network Hardware Vmware 60

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 24, 2018

The engineering team at Lyft recently discussed a new overlay-free networking approach they’ve been working on for Kubernetes: IPVLAN-based CNI stack for running within VPCs on AWS. Servers/Hardware. Andrés Martínez, a software engineer with Bitnami, shares a write-up on a serverless service mesh with kubeless and Istio.

Vmware 60

Vmware Load Balancer Network Open Source 60

Scott Lowe

APRIL 8, 2013

Servers/Hardware. As the website describes it, it’s designed to “reverse engineer” servers so that you can migrate them into a configuration management system like Chef or Puppet. Operating Systems/Applications. If you’re not already familiar with this information, this is good reading.

Storage 111

Storage Vmware WAN Virtualization 111

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 16, 2017

Miguel Gómez of Telefónica Engineering discusses maximizing performance in VXLAN overlay networks. Nicolas Michel has a good post on the transition from network engineer v1.0 to v2.0 , and some of the skillsets he believes network engineers must embrace moving forward. Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications.

Open Source 60

Open Source Network Linux Engineering 60

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 18, 2017

Servers/Hardware. Stay tuned for a quick review of the hardware once it arrives. Operating Systems/Applications. Zhenyun Zhuang and the LinkedIn Engineering time have a post on not letting Linux control groups be uncontrolled. Stephane Graber has an article explaining how to run Kubernetes in LXD. Check this out.

Linux 60

Linux Network Hardware Dell 60

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

I found this link in the serverless mullet architectures post, see the “Operating Systems/Applications” section below.). Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. In the event you are seeking more information on NAT hole punching, here you go. You’re welcome. (I This is a cool site.

Architecture 60

Architecture Operating Systems Applications How To 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

The first one, on virtualizing the network, did highlight an important development regarding hardware offloads for Geneve, the next-generation network overlay encapsulation protocol. Intel announced yesterday that the new XL710 network adapters (which are 40Gbps adapters) will support Geneve hardware offloads. Closing Thoughts.

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Intel Hardware Linux Virtualization 60

Dataconomy

MARCH 28, 2023

The ecosystem consists of various components, including devices, communication networks, data storage, and analytics tools, that work together to create an intelligent system that enables automation, monitoring, and control of various processes. Component Description Sensors IoT sensors collect data from the physical environment.

Data 28

Data Storage Security Network 28

Dataconomy

MARCH 28, 2023

The ecosystem consists of various components, including devices, communication networks, data storage, and analytics tools, that work together to create an intelligent system that enables automation, monitoring, and control of various processes. Component Description Sensors IoT sensors collect data from the physical environment.

Data 28

Data Storage Security Network 28

Linux Academy

APRIL 30, 2019

LPI Linux Essentials — This course teaches the basic concepts of processes, programs, and the components of the Linux operating system. Students will get hands-on experience installing and configuring containers and thoughtfully selecting a persistent storage strategy. Courses Free in May.

Linux 113

Linux Course Big Data Devops 113

Scott Lowe

MAY 3, 2019

Servers/Hardware. 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). It’s the end of an era. Career/Soft Skills.

Vmware 60

Vmware Open Source Intel Applications 60

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 9, 2016

Are you a network engineer who wants to expand his or her automation skills, but doesn’t have the equipment? Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. Is there really a problem with vendors labeling hardware as VMware Ready and it not actually being certified/validated as VMware Ready? This puts LXD at 2.4.1

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Vmware Case Study Linux Network 60