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. Along the same lines as the previous bullet, here’s a write-up on how to encrypt your e-mails with PGP keys.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Storage Load Balancer 60

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 14, 2017

Romain Decker has an “under the hood” look at the VMware NSX load balancer. Jason Brooks has a write-up discussing how to run Kubernetes on Fedora Atomic Host. This graphical summary of the AWS Application Load Balancer (ALB) is pretty handy. Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization.

Load Balancer 60

Load Balancer Vmware Hardware Open Source 60

Scott Lowe

APRIL 15, 2022

Xavier Avrillier walks readers through using Antrea (a Kubernetes CNI built on top of Open vSwitch—a topic I’ve touched on a time or two) to provide on-premise load balancing in Kubernetes. Diego Sucaria shows how to use an SSH SOCKS proxy to access private Kubernetes clusters. Operating Systems/Applications.

Linux 74

Linux Load Balancer IPv6 Licensing 74

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

Normally I’d put something like this in a different section, but this is as much a write-up on how to configure NSX-T correctly as it is about configuring Ingress objects in Kubernetes. Operating Systems/Applications. Jeff Geerling explains how to test your Ansible roles with Molecule. Virtualization.

Load Balancer 60

Load Balancer Cloud Applications Vmware 60

Scott Lowe

APRIL 6, 2017

Part 1 covers how to choose a Linux distribution, and part 2 discusses some security tips for installing Linux on your SysAdmin workstation. Operating Systems/Applications. Brandon Gordon shares how to use VMware Harbor and VMware Admiral in a vCloud Air Network (vCAN) environment for container management. Virtualization.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Storage Network 60

Scott Lowe

JULY 13, 2018

Bernd Malmqvist talks about Avi Networks’ software-defined load balancing solution, including providing an overview of how to use Vagrant to test it yourself. Chris Hein shows how to use the Heptio Authenticator with kops to link Kubernetes cluster authentication to AWS IAM. Operating Systems/Applications.

Load Balancer 60

Load Balancer Virtualization Authentication Tools 60

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. Operating Systems/Applications. Ahmet Alp Balkan shows how to serve up gRPC and HTTP from a Go app on Cloud Run. Virtualization. Career/Soft Skills.

Vmware 60

Vmware Hardware Load Balancer Apple 60

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. Ric Harvey shows how to automatically deploy Hugo updates using AWS CodeBuild. Operating Systems/Applications.

Load Balancer 60

Load Balancer Operating Systems Intel Hardware 60

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 24, 2018

VPCs, or Virtual Private Clouds, are Amazon’s software-defined networking mechanism for workloads running on AWS.). Viktor van den Berg writes on deploying NSX load balancers with vRA. Operating Systems/Applications. The Project Atomic blog shares how to use OCI image registries with Buildah.

Vmware 60

Vmware Load Balancer Network Open Source 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 17, 2018

Fellow Heptonian Chuck Ha walks through some Kubernetes logs to show how to use them to better understand the relationships between the various components. Check out these articles talking about IPVS-based in-cluster load balancing , CoreDNS , dynamic kubelet configuration , and resizing persistent volumes in Kubernetes.

Load Balancer 60

Load Balancer Storage Network Linux 60

Scott Lowe

JUNE 8, 2018

Kamal Kyrala discusses a method for accessing Kubernetes Services without Ingress, NodePort, or load balancers. Operating Systems/Applications. Nick Janetakis has a collection of quick “Docker tips” that you may find useful; the latest one shows how to see all your container’s environment variables.

Load Balancer 60

Load Balancer Vmware Storage Intel 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

and their product (VirTool Network Analyzer) is aimed at providing some operational visibility into OpenStack virtual networks. I saw a demo of the product—it looks quite handy, and provides a pretty fair amount of information to help operators figure out what’s happening “under the covers. Virtualization.

Storage 60

Storage Vmware Load Balancer IPv6 60

Scott Lowe

JUNE 21, 2019

Mohamad Alhussein shares information on how to add a floating static route to an NSX edge via the NSX REST API. Mircea Ulinic shows readers how to use salt-sproxy to take a different approach to network automation using Salt. I’m looking forward to seeing how NaaS evolves. Operating Systems/Applications.

Network 60

Network Load Balancer Storage Applications 60

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 5, 2012

Erik Smith, notably known for his outstanding posts on storage and FCoE, takes a stab at describing some of the differences between SDN and network virtualization in this post. Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization. Jason Boche shows you how. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. That’s pretty handy.

Storage 92

Storage Vmware Linux Virtualization 92

Linux Academy

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

March Study Group Course: Linux Operating System Fundamentals – Have you heard of Linux, but don’t really know anything about it? You will walk through a local installation as well as how to use our Cloud Servers in order to follow along with our demos. Stay tuned to the Linux Academy blog for further details.

Linux 80

Linux Big Data Course Devops 80

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

Open Virtual Network (OVN) is really ramping up and getting lots of attention, which I personally think is absolutely well-deserved. Operating Systems/Applications. Here’s an article on how to customize Docker’s docker0 network bridge (Bill throws in a rant about said topic for free). Virtualization. Networking.

Vmware 60

Vmware Network Load Balancer Linux 60

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Baptiste Collard has a post on Kubernetes controllers for AWS load balancers. One takeaway from this post for me was that the new AWS load balancer controller uses a ton of annotations. Michael Heap shares how to deploy a Kong Gateway data plane with Pulumi. Operating Systems/Applications.

Load Balancer 94

Load Balancer Vmware Operating Systems Architecture 94

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 17, 2015

He describes how to set it up (on both VirtualBox and Digital Ocean) and provides some high-level performance information as well. Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization. William Lam breaks down the real value of load balancing your PSC in this in-depth article. Want to run Docker Swarm on Azure?

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Architecture Hardware 60

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 6, 2012

First up is Brent Salisbury’s how to build an SDN lab without needing OpenFlow hardware. If any enterprise Puppet experts want to give it a go, I’d be happy to publish a guest blog post for you with full details on how it’s done. Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization. Until the 1.3

Vmware 108

Vmware Virtualization Storage Hardware 108

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

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). tech preview of virtual networks for Docker. Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization. Networking. Servers/Hardware.

Open Source 60

Open Source Vmware Network IBM 60