Kitaboo

APRIL 1, 2024

In this blog, we will explore different software solutions that support ePUB to provide creators with the resources needed to create and distribute their literary works. KITABOO KITABOO is a cloud-based digital textbook platform that offers a powerful and simple ePUB reader for a large range of operating systems and devices.

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Software Software eBook Adobe 78

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 27, 2019

Operating Systems/Applications. Cole Atkinson discusses the fact that osxfuse is no longer open source , and the ramifications of this development on open source in general. Bjoern Brundert has a collection of resources for Project Pacific (announced at VMworld 2019). Virtualization.

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Open Source Vmware Authentication Storage 60

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 23, 2020

I think a fair number of folks may not be aware that the Nginx ingress controller for Kubernetes—both the community version and the Nginx-maintained open source version—do suffer from timeouts and errors resulting from changes in the back-end application’s list of endpoints (think pods being added or removed).

Open Source 60

Open Source Vmware Disaster Recovery Linux 60

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. Welcome to Technology Short Take #165! Denis Mulyalin shows how to use Nornir, Salt, and NetBox to template your network tests.

Programming 96

Programming Policies Network Cloud 96

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.

Open Source 60

Open Source Storage Vmware Network 60

Scott Lowe

APRIL 15, 2022

Arthur Chiao’s post on cracking kube-proxy is also an excellent resource—in fact, there’s so much information packed in there you may need to read it more than once. Operating Systems/Applications. This is such an invaluable resource. Start here. Some of it is still too advanced for me right now.

Linux 74

Linux Load Balancer IPv6 Licensing 74

Scott Lowe

MARCH 20, 2020

Keith Lee has a list of Cluster API resources you might want to check out. (I’ve Operating Systems/Applications. Kornelis Sietsma looks at the options for working with multiple git identities on a single system. You can also go get your fill of storage-related links from J Metz. Virtualization.

Linux 60

Linux Vmware Authentication Storage 60

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. Linux Operating System Fundamentals.

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Course Linux Devops Big Data 104

Scott Lowe

MAY 4, 2017

If you’re trying to wrap your head around AWS IAM policies, I have yet to find a resource I can recommend more strongly than this article on AWS IAM policies in a nutshell. Operating Systems/Applications. Ryan Kelly shows readers how to configure Harbor (open source container registry project) to use Amazon S3 for storage.

Vmware 60

Vmware Storage Network Examples 60

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 24, 2012

It’s been over four months since my last post on open source Puppet , when I posted some updated multi-OS Puppet configurations. The key to making it work is the idea of a virtual resource. The Puppet Labs site does a much better job of explaining virtual resources. Realize the virtual user resources where needed.

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Resources Virtualization Linux Open Source 121

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 29, 2016

Via Mike Foley , the community now has a new resource to help educate on VM escapes. Operating Systems/Applications. could make RDP connections to modern Windows systems. Jase McCarty talks about how to backup or recover storage policy-based management (SPBM) profiles. Nothing this time around! Virtualization.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Open Source Data Center 60

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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Study Apple Google Operating Systems 66

Scott Lowe

APRIL 24, 2020

I recently stumbled across this regular list of AWS open source news and updates by Ricardo Sueiras. launch today ) and using that for enforcing tagging on AWS resources. Operating Systems/Applications. Cody Hosterman, of Pure Storage, takes a look at Pure Storage’s support of the recently-released vSphere 7.

Storage 60

Storage Tools Architecture Network 60

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 17, 2020

Eric Sloof mentions the NSX-T load balancing encyclopedia (found here ), which intends to be an authoritative resource to NSX-T load balancing configuration and management. How about a bash “wrapper” for working with AWS resources from the command line? Operating Systems/Applications. Networking.

Load Balancer 60

Load Balancer Vmware Windows Cloud 60

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 5, 2018

Sathyajith Bhat covers five open source tools for container security. The folks at Platform9 recently open-sourced a tool called etcdadm (inspired by kubeadm ). Operating Systems/Applications. I found a couple of resources for folks interested in learning Golang. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management.

Hardware 60

Hardware Open Source Vmware Linux 60

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 14, 2016

Gabriele (the author of that post) also has a nice article on some resources to get you started with network automation. 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). Operating Systems/Applications. Servers/Hardware.

Vmware 60

Vmware Devops Storage Linux 60

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 5, 2012

This is my first time publishing a Technology Short Take with my new filesystem-based approach of managing resources. 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.

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Storage Vmware Linux Virtualization 92

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 19, 2018

Via Maish Saidel-Keesing, I saw this post about 10 open source Kubernetes tools for highly effective SRE and Ops teams. Richard Boswell has a series going on VMware Integrated OpenStack (VIO) and resource schedulers that is (so far) pretty good. Operating Systems/Applications. release of Kubernetes. Virtualization.

Vmware 60

Vmware Open Source Linux Cloud 60

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 14, 2016

Gabriele (the author of that post) also has a nice article on some resources to get you started with network automation. 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). Operating Systems/Applications. Servers/Hardware.

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Devops Vmware Storage Open Source 60

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 6, 2019

Brent Salisbury’s post on Golang for Network Ops not only points out why networking pros should learn Golang, but also provides some resources on how to learn it. The article also pointed me to this GitHub repository with chaos engineering resources. Operating Systems/Applications. Nothing this time; sorry!

Vmware 60

Vmware Network Linux Hardware 60

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 6, 2012

His earlier post on getting started with OpenFlow and Open vSwitch tutorial lab is also quite good. Another good resource is Dan Hersey’s guide to building an SDN-based private cloud in an hour. Operating Systems/Applications. Brent is creating some fantastic content that I’ve found extremely useful.

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Vmware Virtualization Storage Hardware 108

Kitaboo

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Accessible on all iOS, Android, and Windows devices, KITABOO incorporates interactive elements facilitating collaboration and sharing of learning resources between learners and instructors. It also converts PDF documents into various eBook-friendly formats, including ePUB and MOBI amongst others.

Windows 78

Windows eBook Adobe Cloud 78

Scott Lowe

MAY 11, 2018

” While the post is clearly Sysdig-oriented (as would be fully expected), it’s also cool to see how powerful the assembly of various open source projects can be. This is a lesson VMware learned years ago with Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS). Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization.

Network 60

Network Virtualization Open Source Vmware 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 11, 2016

First, OHMS is open source (find it here on GitHub ); second, OHMS appears to interact with/integrate with/support Redfish, a hardware-level API I first discussed back in 2014. What will happen when you combine GPUs and persistent storage? Operating Systems/Applications. Is the era of the storage admin over ?

Vmware 60

Vmware Hardware Storage Linux 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 2, 2017

Skydive is (in the project’s own words) an “open source real-time network topology and protocols analyzer.” Operating Systems/Applications. Here’s a list of some open source Docker-related tools that developers may find useful. Alan Renouf shows you how to retrieve NVMe storage device details using PowerCLI.

Linux 60

Linux Devops Open Source Virtualization 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Pradipta Kumar Banerjee has an article on using local storage for instances in OpenStack. Operating Systems/Applications. It’s obvious I haven’t paid a great deal of attention to the storage space recently.). If you’re seeking resources related to NVMe, this NVMe bibliography (by J Metz) is a great resource.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Intel Storage 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 17, 2016

Matt Oswalt recently unveiled (and open sourced) a framework called ToDD, which stands for “Testing on Demand: Distributed”. Operating Systems/Applications. This is a much older article on resource management in Docker , but still (as far as I can tell) useful and informative. Read more about it here.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Network Open Source 60

Scott Lowe

APRIL 21, 2016

And while we are still on the topic of Photon Controller…Kris Thieler has a nice article on how to reduce the resource requirements needed to run Kubernetes on Photon Platform. Operating Systems/Applications. Although it’s not feature-complete (by a long shot), VMware recently open-sourced version 0.1

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Vmware Linux Hardware Network 60

Linux Academy

JANUARY 1, 2020

To continually support your mission to learn and grow, we encourage you to try these free courses and resources for developing and advancing your Cloud skills. Students will learn by doing through installing and configuring containers and thoughtfully selecting a persistent storage strategy. Linux Operating System Fundamentals.

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Course Linux Devops Big Data 31

Linux Academy

JANUARY 30, 2020

To continually support your mission to learn and grow, we encourage you to try these free courses and resources for developing and advancing your Cloud skills. Students will learn by doing through installing and configuring containers and thoughtfully selecting a persistent storage strategy. Linux Operating System Fundamentals.

Course 29

Course Linux Devops Big Data 29

Scott Lowe

JUNE 11, 2014

Case in point: “Heat” is the name of the project for orchestrating resources in OpenStack, HOT is the name for the format of Heat templates, and Flame is the name of a new project to automatically generate Heat templates. Operating Systems/Applications. Technology Short Take #42. Technology Short Take #41.

Vmware 60

Vmware Storage Network Virtualization 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

To help resolve this issue, Cumulus Networks (and possibly Metacloud, I’m not sure of their involvement yet) has release an open source project called vxfld. Operating Systems/Applications. Visit the site for more information on virtualization, servers, storage, and other enterprise technologies.

Linux 60

Linux Network Vmware Disaster Recovery 60

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 10, 2015

The areas of orchestration systems and resource scheduling are getting a bit more connected due to the efforts of Kubernetes-Mesos, which recently announced the release of version 0.7.0. It’s a way to run Kubernetes (the container orchestration system) on top of Mesos (the cluster resource scheduler) as a native Mesos framework.

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Firewall Windows Linux Architecture 60

Linux Academy

JUNE 25, 2019

To continually support you in your mission to learn and grow we are always adding new courses and resources. You will learn important concepts of the Azure CLI to create and manage resources in Azure and gain a basic understanding of how to build scripts. Linux Operating System Fundamentals. Then this course is for you.

Course 60

Course Linux Cloud Devops 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

No problem, Ravello Systems has a blog (and a blueprint) to help you set all this up. Bird , by the way, is an open source routing daemon for Linux, *BSD, and other UNIX-like operating systems.). Operating Systems/Applications. Servers/Hardware. Sorry, Charlie! Want more Docker links? Here you go.

Vmware 60

Vmware Cloud Windows Linux 60

Scott Lowe

JULY 14, 2015

Although slanted toward Network Functions Virtualization (NFV), this is a good article about why open source—and OpenStack, in particular—isn’t necessarily “free.”. Speaking of VIO…interesting in trying it out, but don’t have the resources in your (work or home) lab? Operating Systems/Applications.

Vmware 60

Vmware Devops Virtualization Network 60

Linux Academy

MAY 28, 2019

Splunk (Deep Dive) – As one of the early log aggregation products in the IT industry, Splunk has remained a popular choice among system administrators, engineers, and developers for operational analytics. Linux Operating System Fundamentals – Have you heard of Linux, but don’t really know anything about it?

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Linux Course Big Data Devops 104