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Technology Short Take 176

Scott Lowe

Networking Lee Briggs (formerly of Pulumi, now with Tailscale) shows how to use the Tailscale Operator to create “free” Kubernetes load balancers (“free” as in no additional charge above and beyond what it would normally cost to operate a Kubernetes cluster). Think Linux doesn’t have malware?

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IDF 2013: Future of SDN with the Intel ONP Switch Reference Design

Scott Lowe

The Intel Open Network Platform (ONP) Switch is the official name for Seacliff Trail, which I talked about last year at IDF 2012. Some of these services naturally should run on the top-of-rack (ToR) switch, like load balancing or security services. IDF 2012 Day 1 Summary and Thoughts. It is hardware switch independent.

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IDF 2014: Architecting for SDI, a Microserver Perspective

Scott Lowe

Workloads are scheduled across these server/linecards using Valiant Load Balancing (VLB). Of course, there are issues with packet-level load balancing and flow-level load balancing, so tradeoffs must be made one way or another. IDF 2012 Day 2 Summary and Thoughts. IDF 2014: Data Center Mega-Session.

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Technology Short Take #27

Scott Lowe

These articles are a bit long in the tooth, but CSS Corp has a useful series of articles on bundling various Linux distributions for use with OpenStack: bundling CentOS , bundling CentOS with VNC , bundling Debian , and bundling OpenSUSE. Need to compact a virtual hard disk in Windows 8/Windows Server 2012? Technology Short Take #29.

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Expanding the Cloud - Introducing AWS OpsWorks, a Powerful.

All Things Distributed

You can deploy your application in the configuration you choose on Amazon Linux and Ubuntu. Next to these solutions you can of course manage your compute resources directly, for example using CloudWatch, AutoScaling and Elastic Load Balancing. OpsWorks lets you model your application with layers. Contact Info. Werner Vogels.

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