Scott Lowe

AUGUST 11, 2023

As a side note, I am curious to know what other CPU architectures, if any, are affected. Will something like this spark a (larger) migration to ARM-based architectures? If you need a foundational review of Amazon ECS, this article is a good starting point. Here we go again.

Programming 60

Programming Architecture Linux Construction 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 27, 2021

I have a fairly diverse set of links for readers this time around, covering topics from microchips to improving your writing, with stops along the way in topics like Kubernetes, virtualization, Linux, and the popular JSON-parsing tool jq along the way. Michael Kashin shares the journey of containerizing NVIDIA Cumulus Linux.

Linux 60

Linux Load Balancer Malware Virtualization 60

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 11, 2020

This is an older article, but hopefully still useful nevertheless: Brian Mathews explains how to use the linkerd sidecar to find and fix application issues on Kubernetes. Here’s a two-part series (so far) on setting up a multi-architecture Kubernetes cluster ( part 1 , part 2 ). Operating Systems/Applications.

Linux 60

Linux Network Tools Hardware 60

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

I’ve got a new collection of links and articles from around the Web on various data center-focused technologies. Michael Kashin has a great article on how Open Virtual Network (OVN, part of the Open vSwitch project) implements virtual networks in OpenStack. Have a look at the article for more details. Networking. Good advice.

Linux 60

Linux Network Virtualization IPv6 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

This is a live blog of session DATS004, titled “Bare-Metal, Docker Containers, and Virtualization: The Growing Choices for Cloud Applications.” This includes cgroups (the ability to control resource allocation/utilization), which is built into the Linux kernel. This article was originally posted on blog.scottlowe.org.

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Virtualization Linux Intel Construction 100

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 11, 2016

In this post you’ll find a collection of links to articles discussing the major data center technologies—networking, hardware, security, cloud computing, applications, virtualization…you name it! (If MTU in OpenStack Neutron has been, as this article by Sam Yaple points out, a bit of a touchy subject. Networking.

Vmware 60

Vmware Hardware Storage Linux 60

Scott Lowe

JULY 17, 2020

Ivan Pepelnjak has a fantastic article on adapting network design to acommodate automation. Jon Langemak is blogging again, and he jumps back into the “blogging saddle” with a post on working with tc on Linux systems. Bruno Hildenbrand shares 20 tips for managing Linux VMs on Azure. Operating Systems/Applications.

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Linux Apple Operating Systems Policies 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 17, 2016

In any case, here’s another collection of links and articles from around the Net on the major data center technology areas. At DevOps Networking Forum 2016, I had the opportunity to share a presentation on some Linux networking options. Operating Systems/Applications. I’ll try to correct that for the next one. Have fun reading!

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Network Open Source 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 2, 2020

It seems like the natural progression of the Tech Short Takes is moving toward monthly articles, since it’s been about a month since my last one. Redpill Linpro talks to readers about their new routers running Cumulus Linux. This article from Bruce Schneier is worth reading. Both are good articles. Servers/Hardware.

Linux 60

Linux Windows Hardware Network 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 2, 2017

OK, now that I’ve mentioned Skydive, I can talk about this article that provides an example of functional SDN testing with Terraform and Skydive. I found this article on SELinux concepts for humans to be quite helpful. Check out this article that discusses using AWS Spot Instances and spotinst to run low-cost Kubernetes clusters.

Linux 60

Linux Devops Open Source Virtualization 60

Scott Lowe

MAY 27, 2022

I mean, don’t you want to spend this weekend catching up on some technology-related articles instead of cooking on the grill and gathering with friends and family? Still, for those who need a little technology fix over the weekend, hopefully I’ve included something useful in the list of articles below. I certainly hope not!

Virtualization 79

Virtualization Storage Network Programming 79

Scott Lowe

MAY 7, 2021

In this Technology Short Take, I’ve gathered some links for you covering topics like Azure and AWS networking, moving from macOS to Linux (and back again), and more. VentureBeat discusses Armv9 , a new architectural update for Arm-based CPUs. Operating Systems/Applications. Let’s jump right into the content!

Linux 60

Linux Hardware Network Cloud 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

In recent years, we’ve seen more devices running off-the-shelf software (like Linux). Is the Linux bridge efficient enough? These challenges can be summarized as: I/O-intensive application virtualization. Verplanke next reviews some of the I/O optimizations and architecture of the Xeon E5 2600 series platform.

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Virtualization Intel Cloud Data 113

Cloud Musings

JANUARY 30, 2017

This NCTA program was designed to provide IT professionals with a strong foundation in cloud technologies, and overall cloud architecture and management of cloud infrastructure, as well as a solid technical background in modern web services deployment and administration. Grab this Headline Animator ( Thank you.

Web Services 70

Web Services Architecture Cloud Programming 70

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 17, 2015

Before I present this episode’s collection of links, articles, and thoughts on various data center technologies, allow me to first wish all of my readers a very merry and very festive holiday season. Mustafa Akin has an article on Docker’s new overlay networking functionality. Now, on to the content! Networking.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Architecture Hardware 60

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 22, 2018

This is a slightly older article by Mitch Beaumont that I’ve had sitting in the hopper for a while. Operating Systems/Applications. This article by Paul Johnston provided (for me, anyway) a very usable and understandable explanation of Lambda Layers and custom runtimes for Lambda. It even includes a video—nice!

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Hardware Case Study 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 12, 2021

This is truly an information-dense article, and if working with the AWS API Gateway falls into your job responsibilities then this is probably a good post to read. This article by Vlad Ionescu on EKS DNS at scale is a great read, well worth your time if you work with Kubernetes. Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization.

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IPv6 Network Storage Policies 60

Linux Academy

APRIL 24, 2019

As more and more organizations migrate applications and services to the cloud migration of services is becoming more critical to organizations so they can accelerate moving on-premise services to the cloud. In particular, in this article, we will review the high-level process of migrating a virtual machine to the Google Cloud Platform.

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Cloud Google Virtualization Linux 60

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 28, 2016

As usual, I’ve gathered what I hope to be a useful but varied collection of articles and links on key data center technologies. The rise of Linux in importance in the networking industry continues, with Arista announcing enhancements to Arista EOS to support—among other things—Docker containers. Operating Systems/Applications.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Open Source Devops 60

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

Ready for another round of links, articles, and thoughts on data center technologies? Amit Aneja has a two-part series (so far) explaining the routing architecture in NSX-T (which brings multi-hypervisor and multi-cloud support to the NSX platform). In the last Tech Short Take, I shared an article by Kynan Riley on node affinity.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Network Storage 60

Scott Lowe

JUNE 2, 2016

This article from Marcos Hernandez shows one way to do dynamic routing in OpenStack. Jason Messer has an article describing how networking works with Windows containers. AlgoSec has a couple of articles published last year before VMworld 2015, but I just now came across them. Operating Systems/Applications.

Vmware 60

Vmware Virtualization Linux Windows 60

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 6, 2018

Via Ivan Pepelnjak, I found this article by Diane Patton at Cumulus Networks talking about container network designs. This post is a bit older, but covers a challenge faced by cloud-native darling Netflix—how does one, exactly, identify which application used which IP address at a given point in time? Servers/Hardware.

Linux 60

Linux Vmware Comparison Network 60

Scott Lowe

MAY 22, 2016

Late last week, Cyrus Durgin from Luminus Networks published an article on SDx Central titled “The (R)evolution of Network Operations.” You may notice that my name is mentioned at the bottom of the article as someone who provided feedback. Whitebox/britebox hardware with Linux-based NOSes.

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Network Architecture Linux Groups 60

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 28, 2016

As usual, I’ve gathered what I hope to be a useful but varied collection of articles and links on key data center technologies. The rise of Linux in importance in the networking industry continues, with Arista announcing enhancements to Arista EOS to support—among other things—Docker containers. Operating Systems/Applications.

Vmware 60

Vmware Open Source Linux Devops 60

Cloud Musings

OCTOBER 16, 2016

Cloud Operations: This module helps you study the management of cloud operations and addresses the application need for compute power, managing CPU scaling, and meeting both structured and unstructured storage requirements. If you enjoyed this article , get free updates by email or RSS - © Copyright Kevin L.

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Vmware Web Services Training Cloud 70

Linux Academy

MARCH 28, 2019

A big reason is the proliferation of micro-services based applications in highly redundant and highly available cloud infrastructures. Add to that a desire for most enterprises to integrate cloud based workloads with legacy on-premises applications, and we have complex hybrid cloud deployments to deal with as the result.

Open Source 60

Open Source Devops Linux Cloud 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 8, 2016

Tony Sangha has a nice article providing step-by-step instructions on setting up a site-to-site IPSec VPN between VMware NSX and a Cisco CSR 1000v. Roie Ben Haim has an article on how to improve the NSX GUI user experience. Trevor Roberts recently posted an article discussing Windows images in your OpenStack cloud.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Intel Network 60

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 14, 2017

Christopher Davis has an article discussing a recommended VPC subnet configuration. This is, of course, just one way of handling subnets within a VPC, but some of the principles outlined in Christopher’s article are definitely sound. This article is pretty high-level; I wish it had a bit more depth to it. Networking.

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Load Balancer Vmware Hardware Open Source 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 11, 2014

The best way to describe Docker is to use the phrase from the Docker web site—Docker is “an open source project to pack, ship and run any application as a lightweight container.” Docker containers provide a standard, consistent way of packaging just about any application. (At LTS as the Linux platform.

Linux 88

Linux Construction Applications Virtualization 88

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 16, 2017

This is my irregularly-published collection of links and articles from around the Internet related to the major data center technologies: networking, hardware, security, cloud computing, applications/OSes, storage, and virtualization. Operating Systems/Applications. Welcome to Technology Short Take #85! PowerNSX in a container?

Vmware 60

Vmware Storage Network Windows 60

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

However, as Major points out in his article, the role works anywhere, OpenStack cloud or not. Lior Kamrat has a multi-part series on an architecture that blends Mesosphere DC/OS, Azure, Docker, and VMware vSphere. Operating Systems/Applications. Tony Reeves shares a procedure for setting up encryption in vSAN 6.6. of Photon OS.

Vmware 60

Vmware Storage Engineering Network 60

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 6, 2013

Welcome to Technology Short Take #37, the latest in my irregularly-published series in which I share interesting articles from around the Internet, miscellaneous thoughts, and whatever else I feel like throwing in. Martijn Smit has launched a series of articles on VMware NSX. Operating Systems/Applications. Networking.

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Vmware Storage Linux Network 60

Scott Lowe

JUNE 29, 2016

Welcome to Technology Short Take #68, my erratically-published collection of links, articles, and posts from around the web—all focused on today’s major data center technologies. Both articles are useful, IMHO, especially considering that MACVLAN is no longer experimental as of the Docker 1.12 Operating Systems/Applications.

Linux 60

Linux Network Hardware Vmware 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 23, 2017

However, hopefully I’ve managed to gather together some articles with useful information for you. Biruk Mekonnen has an introductory article on using Netmiko for network automation. Cossack Labs recently released Acra , a database encryption suite designed to protect applications against data leaks by providing strong encryption.

Open Source 60

Open Source Storage Vmware Network 60

Scott Lowe

MAY 25, 2018

For almost eight years (Technology Short Take #1 was published in August 2010), I’ve been collecting and sharing links and articles from around the web related to major data center technologies. Ben Piper shares an example of automating Cumulus Linux with Ansible. Operating Systems/Applications. Career/Soft Skills.

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Devops Hardware Resources Cloud 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 10, 2015

I have here for your reading pleasure an eclectic collection of links and articles from around the web, focusing on data center-related technologies. It tells me that some skills—specifically, Linux, automation/configuration management, software development concepts—are going to be essential for all new IT pros in the near future.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Hardware Software Development 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

Bare Metal, Containers, and Virtualization: The Growing Choices for Cloud Applications. This would improve container security and move Linux containers closer to the Bromium “microvisor” architecture. This is interesting, but obviously applicable only to the largest of customers given the cost involved.

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Intel Hardware Linux Virtualization 60