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Technology Short Take #81

Scott Lowe

Humair Ahmed of VMware shares some details on a new control plane resiliency feature recently added to VMware NSX: Controller Disconnected Operation (CDO) mode. Here’s a handy list of deprecated Linux network commands and their replacements. Konstantin Ryabitsev has a series going on securing a SysAdmin Linux workstation.

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Technology Short Take #77

Scott Lowe

Michael Kashin has a great article on how Open Virtual Network (OVN, part of the Open vSwitch project) implements virtual networks in OpenStack. In a bit of an older post from late summer 2016, Matt Oswalt outlines why network engineers should care about the network software supply chain. Operating Systems/Applications.

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Technology Short Take #67

Scott Lowe

I’m not yet convinced that running something like the AWS CLI in a Docker container is worth the extra effort (a Python virtual environment may be more appropriate here). Operating Systems/Applications. John Nicholson talks about the Virtual SAN (VSAN) performance service , available in VSAN 6.2. Virtualization.

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Technology Short Take #74

Scott Lowe

The end of 2016 is nearly upon us, and it looks as if there will be only one more Technology Short Take before the end of the year. This is an interesting project to watch, I think—it’s porting OVN (Open Virtual Network) from a “traditional” OvS back-end to an IOVisor-based back-end (IOVisor implements the data plane in eBPF).

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Technology Short Take #59

Scott Lowe

Welcome to Technology Short Take #59, the first Technology Short Take of 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). Virtualization.

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Technology Short Take #63

Scott Lowe

At DevOps Networking Forum 2016, I had the opportunity to share a presentation on some Linux networking options. Operating Systems/Applications. I knew Microsoft was cozying up to Linux, but I honestly didn’t expect they would port SQL Server to Linux. Finally, you might find the VMware Virtual SAN 6.2

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Technology Short Take #75

Scott Lowe

Welcome to Technology Short Take #75, the final Technology Short Take for 2016. Andrey Khomyakov shares some information on automating the setup of whitebox switches running Cumulus Linux in part 2 of this series on learning network automation. Operating Systems/Applications. Alpine Linux 3.5 Virtualization.

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