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. The session starts with a discussion of the problems found in Layer 2 IPv6 networks. Note that some of these attacks are also common to IPv4 and are not necessarily unique to IPv6. Can we use shared Layer 3 IPv6 subnets?

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 12, 2021

Want/need to better understand IPv6? Operating Systems/Applications. Alex Gurbych discusses a microservices architecture, including adapting the concepts to actual services and offerings from AWS. Virtualization. Denise Fishburne has you covered. Denise also has you covered if you need BGP knowledge.

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IPv6 Network Storage Policies 60

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

Michael Kashin has a great article on how Open Virtual Network (OVN, part of the Open vSwitch project) implements virtual networks in OpenStack. Simon Leinen (from SWITCHengines) explains their use of IPv6 with OpenStack. Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization. Good advice. Not sure what a bastion host is?

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 10, 2015

I highly recommend you read the entire post, but in short the five skills Matt recommends are software skills (which includes configuration management and software development tools like Git ), Linux, deep protocol knowledge, hypervisor and container networking, and IPv6. Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization.

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Vmware Linux Hardware Software Development 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 10, 2023

Nick Buraglio discusses IPv6 Unique Local Addressing (ULA). Frank Denneman digs into Sapphire Rapids memory configurations (Sapphire Rapids is Intel’s 4th generation Scalable Processor Architecture). Virtualization Frank Denneman discusses simulating NUMA nodes for nested ESXi virtual appliances. Wonder no longer.

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Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 10, 2015

Tor Anderson has an article on using IPv6 for network boot using UEFI and iPXE. Operating Systems/Applications. A lot of people think tools like Consul are only valuable in “next-generation” microservices-based architectures, but Benny’s article shows how it can add a lot of value in “traditional” architectures.

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