Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

This is a liveblog of an AWS re:Invent 2017 breakout session titled “IPv6 in the Cloud: Protocol and Service Overview.” ” The presenter’s name is Alan Halachmi, who is a Senior Manager of Solutions Architecture at AWS. T-Mobile, for example, now has 89% of their infrastructure running on IPv6.

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Scott Lowe

APRIL 29, 2015

This session was titled “IPv6 Microsegmentation,” and the speaker was Ivan Pepelnjak. Ivan is, of course, a well-known figure in the networking space, and publishes content at [link]. The session starts with a discussion of the problems found in Layer 2 IPv6 networks. Can we use shared Layer 3 IPv6 subnets?

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 10, 2023

Networking Kevin Jin’s post on the APNIC blog about network automation tools is a great read. He discusses Netmiko, NAPALM, and Nornir in some detail, and provides some guidance around which network automation tool may be right for you. Anton Kuliashov writes about why Palark uses Cilium for Kubernetes networking.

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 12, 2021

Networking. Isovalent, the folks behind Cilium, recently unveiled the Network Policy Editor, a graphical way of editing Kubernetes Network Policies. Ivan Pepelnjak, the font of all networking knowledge, has been discussing cloud networking in some detail for a good while now. Want/need to better understand IPv6?

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Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

Networking. 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. Good advice.

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Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 5, 2017

One of the key points is that Kubernetes is more application-focused, whereas OpenStack is more machine-focused. Lees spends some time reviewing the basics of Kubernetes networking, reviewing the core constructs leveraged by Kubernetes. Spread worker VMs across availability zones, and put them all into one Neutron private network.

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Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 10, 2015

Networking. Tor Anderson has an article on using IPv6 for network boot using UEFI and iPXE. has a great blog series going called “Hey, I can DevOps my Network too!” Operating Systems/Applications. Need a “cheat sheet,” so to speak, for VMware’s cloud-native applications initiatives? Larry Smith Jr.

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