Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 29, 2021

The list of articles is a bit shorter than usual this time around, but I’ve still got a good collection of articles and posts covering topics in networking, hardware (mostly focused on Apple’s processors), cloud computing, and virtualization. Networking. Operating Systems/Applications. At least, I hope so.)

Vmware 74

Vmware Cloud Network Hardware 74

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 27, 2019

Networking. Teammate Alex Brand has a look at VMware’s new OVS-based CNI plugin, Antrea. Ahmet Alp Balkan talks about how the Knative Serving component addresses some key networking challenges within Kubernetes. Operating Systems/Applications. Spend time with your family instead. Servers/Hardware.

Open Source 60

Open Source Vmware Authentication Storage 60

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

Networking. Troy Hunt has a good article on security measures other than just passwords , explaining some of the differences between multi-factor authentication and multi-step authentication (for example). Operating Systems/Applications. Matt Oswalt shares some details on how NRE Labs implements “curriculum-as-code.”

Vmware 60

Vmware Authentication Virtualization Storage 60

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 29, 2021

The list of articles is a bit shorter than usual this time around, but I’ve still got a good collection of articles and posts covering topics in networking, hardware (mostly focused on Apple’s processors), cloud computing, and virtualization. Networking. Operating Systems/Applications. At least, I hope so.)

Vmware 60

Vmware Cloud Network Hardware 60

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 15, 2021

Networking. The popular open source cryptography library known as Bouncy Castle has uncovered a severe authentication bypass vulnerability. From early December 2020, there’s also this reminder about the security updates released by VMware to address a zero-day vulnerability in several products.

Linux 60

Linux Firewall Open Source Vmware 60

Scott Lowe

MAY 22, 2015

Welcome to Technology Short Take #51, another collection of posts and links about key data center technologies like networking, virtualization, cloud management, and applications/operating systems. Networking. Rick Sherman has an article on using Jinja2 templates for network automation , including a practical example.

Vmware 60

Vmware Network Virtualization IPv6 60

Scott Lowe

MAY 27, 2022

Networking. Along those lines, one of their latest articles discusses how to achieve identity-based mutual authentication leveraging eBPF. network virtualization). Is the relationship between network virtualization and service mesh closer than some folks might wish to admit? Operating Systems/Applications.

Virtualization 79

Virtualization Storage Network Programming 79

Cloud Musings

NOVEMBER 20, 2016

Participants include AT&T, Canonical, Cisco, DreamHost, Deutsche Telekom, Fujitsu, HPE, Huawei, IBM, Intel, Linaro, Mirantis, OSIC, OVH, Rackspace, Red Hat, SUSE and VMware. He believes that applications can be built to be interoperable across different infrastructure platform.

Cloud 107

Cloud IBM Applications Architecture 107

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 14, 2016

Networking. NAPALM (Network Automation and Programmability Layer with Multivendor support) looks like a really cool tool. Gabriele (the author of that post) also has a nice article on some resources to get you started with network automation. Dwayne Sinclair (an NSX SE at VMware) has a write-up on what micro-segmentation is not.

Vmware 60

Vmware Devops Storage Linux 60

Scott Lowe

JULY 13, 2018

Networking. Ajay Chenampara has a post on using the Ansible network-engine command parser to parse the output of commands on network devices. Ajay Chenampara has a post on using the Ansible network-engine command parser to parse the output of commands on network devices. Operating Systems/Applications.

Load Balancer 60

Load Balancer Virtualization Authentication Tools 60

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 14, 2016

Networking. NAPALM (Network Automation and Programmability Layer with Multivendor support) looks like a really cool tool. Gabriele (the author of that post) also has a nice article on some resources to get you started with network automation. Dwayne Sinclair (an NSX SE at VMware) has a write-up on what micro-segmentation is not.

Devops 60

Devops Vmware Storage Open Source 60

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

This session will not focus on the VMware announcement regarding VMware Cloud on AWS. IAM offers fine-grained access for AWS resources, offers multi-factor authentication for highly privileged users, and can integrate with corporate directories. Once you have data and identity addressed, it’s time to handle networking.

Architecture 60

Architecture Cloud Storage Vmware 60

Scott Lowe

APRIL 19, 2019

Networking. Part 2 of Stark and Wayne’s container-to-container networking for Cloud Foundry and Kubernetes dig deep into CNI workings. Milind Gunjan shares some tips for troubleshooting Linux bridged networking on a KVM host. Many organizations prefer to use two-factor authentication (2FA) to help protect their systems.

Open Source 60

Open Source Tools Policies Cloud 60

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 5, 2012

Networking. Some folks from Nicira (now part of VMware) recently published a blog post discussing the OVSDB IETF draft (see here ). I think this three-part series on new network models for cloud computing ( part 1 , part 2 , and part 3 ), while almost a year old, is quite good. Operating Systems/Applications.

Storage 92

Storage Vmware Linux Virtualization 92

Scott Lowe

JULY 5, 2019

Networking. Lennart Koopmann provides a guide to Yubikey authentication in the real world. Operating Systems/Applications. Mischa Buijs reviews using a SATADOM boot device with VMware ESXi. Nevertheless, I hope that I managed to capture something you find useful or helpful. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management.

Storage 60

Storage Hardware Open Source Vmware 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

LTS, KVM hypervisors, and VMware NSX for networking. You’ll need to determine the flavor ID (or name), the image ID (or name), the floating IP pool in use, the name of the Neutron network, and the name(s) of the security groups to use. Will it evolve over time to be more “application-aware”? with the Docker 1.8.2

Engineering 60

Engineering Applications Cloud Network 60

CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 14, 2023

comdivision and VMware show how leading-edge cloud solutions help customers gain a competitive lead in their industries For more than 25 years, comdivision has drawn from its deep well of infrastructure knowledge to help organizations gain business value from leading-edge technologies. comdivision was ready to deliver.

WAN 86

WAN Vmware Cloud Data Center 86

Scott Lowe

MARCH 20, 2020

Networking. Dinesh Dutt of Cumulus Networks writes about the effect of switch port count in Clos topologies. This blending of “traditional” network engineering with containers, Linux, and DevOps tooling is how Matt is setting new trends and directions for the networking industry. Good stuff here!

Linux 60

Linux Vmware Authentication Storage 60

CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 18, 2022

Both Jeroen and Rob still manage Interconnect, which now employs more than 120 cloud, infrastructure, application, and networking professionals. Notably, Interconnect’s longstanding partnership with VMware can be seen in the broad array of cloud offerings the company’s customers have to choose from.

Vmware 84

Vmware Cloud Enterprise Enterprise 84

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 26, 2014

Ben Fathi, CTO of VMware, takes the stage to start the keynote, and goes through a recap of yesterday’s announcements: EVO and EVO:RAIL, vCloud Air rebranding and the availability of new services, VMware Integrated OpenStack (VIO), and new product versions (vCloud Suite 5.8, betas of vSphere and VSAN).

Vmware 65

Vmware Architecture Applications Storage 65

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.

IPv6 74

IPv6 Linux Tools Network 74

Scott Lowe

APRIL 21, 2016

Networking. Michael Ryom has a nice (but short) article on using Log Insight along with a NetFlow proxy to help provide more detailed visibility into traffic flows between VMs on NSX logical networks. BGP seems to be emerging as an early front-runner for a standards-based control plane for software networking. Servers/Hardware.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Hardware Network 60

Scott Lowe

APRIL 17, 2017

SwarmKit also offers encrypted networks (I was not aware of this functionality), and secure secret distribution in a platform-agnostic, least-privilege way. Lots of different frameworks, lots of different applications, lots of different databases…all this freedom of choice creates challenges to security.

Linux 60

Linux Open Source Windows Security 60