Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 29, 2016

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. Alpine Linux 3.5 Virtualization. Networking. was recently released.

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Vmware Linux Open Source Data Center 60

Scott Lowe

JUNE 2, 2016

Dmitri Kalintsev examines some options for addressing storage-related connectivity in NSX environments. 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). Virtualization. Servers/Hardware. Career/Soft Skills.

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Vmware Virtualization Linux Windows 60

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 14, 2016

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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Devops Vmware Storage Open Source 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 17, 2016

At DevOps Networking Forum 2016, I had the opportunity to share a presentation on some Linux networking options. I knew Microsoft was cozying up to Linux, but I honestly didn’t expect they would port SQL Server to Linux. You may also find this (related) article on memory inside Linux containers to be helpful.

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Vmware Linux Network Open Source 60

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 18, 2017

Although Rowan doesn’t specifically mention it, this command relies on tools like tr , sort , and uniq , so I’m guessing it will only work on OS X/Linux/*BSD systems. The post has a nice list of Linux replacements for popular OS X apps. Virtualization. Stephane Graber has an article explaining how to run Kubernetes in LXD.

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Linux Network Hardware Dell 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

This blog post on shielded VMs in Windows Server 2016 is a bit light on details, but the embedded video may be more informative (I didn’t watch it). Pradipta Kumar Banerjee has an article on using local storage for instances in OpenStack. Red Hat Enterprise Linux Atomic Host (how’s that for a mouthful?) Virtualization.

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Vmware Linux Intel Storage 60

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 10, 2015

This article provides a good introductory overview of Linux iptables commands for configuring host-based firewall rules on your Linux systems. The Windows architecture is so dramatically different from UNIX/Linux that trying to adapt per-process containers is quite naturally going to be more than a little bit challenging.

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Windows Firewall Linux Architecture 60

Scott Lowe

MAY 12, 2016

I recently spoke at Interop 2016 in Las Vegas, and while I was there I scribbled down some notes pertaining to how decomposing applications into microservices-based architectures was similar in some respects to decomposing networks into an overlay network and an underlay (physical) network. Virtualization. Networking.

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Vmware Windows Network Agile 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 25, 2015

In this post, I’ve gathered links to posts about networking, virtualization, Docker, containers, Linux, configuration management, and all kinds of other cool stuff. Jason Anderson has a nice post on using SR-IOV (Single Root I/O Virtualization) to expose Docker containers. Virtualization. Networking.

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Vmware Linux Virtualization Tools 60

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 9, 2016

That prompted Cody Bunch to write this article on setting up a topology with BGP on Linux using the topology converter , which I’m now mentioning in this Technology Short Take. PowerShell on Cumulus Linux on a network switch? Virtualization. Josh Upton published a recap of his top 5 take-aways from VMworld 2016 in Las Vegas.

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Vmware Case Study Linux Network 60

Cloud Musings

OCTOBER 9, 2018

With over 1300 modules, Ansible simplifies several aspects of IT infrastructure, including web, database, network, cloud, cluster, monitoring, and storage. It effortlessly integrates with any area of the IT infrastructure, be it provisioning virtual machines (VMs) or creating firewall rules. Jackson 2016-2018 ) Follow me at [link].

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

Not sure if this link belongs in Networking or in Virtualization, but we’ll stick it here since it talks about VMware NSX. Bird , by the way, is an open source routing daemon for Linux, *BSD, and other UNIX-like operating systems.). Virtualization. Hyper-V on Nano in Windows Server 2016 TP3? Networking. Servers/Hardware.

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Vmware Cloud Windows Linux 60

Cloud Musings

OCTOBER 28, 2016

Significant increase in the number of options available for various business requirements and loads “Bare metal” servers that aren’t virtual. You will learn how to painlessly deploy fairly complex applications that scale across multiple instances in cloud technologies including Windows Azure Chef, Chef Solo, Linux and Windows Tools.

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