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Fountainhead: What Is Meant by a "Cloud-Ready" Application?

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What Is Meant by a "Cloud-Ready" Application? unique network topology (including load balancing, firewalls, etc.). connected to differing forms of storage (not to mention storage tiering, backup etc.) They dont interact with the applications unique. solution if you really understand the specific application.

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Technology Short Take 115

Scott Lowe

David Holder walks through removing unused load balancer IP allocations in NSX-T when used with PKS. Kief Morris, the author behind the O’Reilly Infrastructure as Code book (see my review here) has launched a website that provides infrastructure patterns (re-usable frameworks for creating infrastructure).

Network 60
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Technology Short Take 95

Scott Lowe

Viktor van den Berg writes on deploying NSX load balancers with vRA. Courtesy of Corey Quinn, here’s an awesome AWS versus Azure comparison , comic book style. Operating Systems/Applications. IPVLAN is a low-latency means of providing IP connectivity to containers. This is a pretty interesting use case for Docker.

Vmware 60
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Technology Short Take #58

Scott Lowe

It says the the JET (Juniper Extension Toolkit) uses “open application programming interfaces”, but fails to provide any specifics. Operating Systems/Applications. I really appreciated Kelsey Hightower’s recent “12 Fractured Apps” article , in which he tackles some less-than-ideal application patterns with Docker containers.

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Fountainhead: Differing Target Uses for IT Automation Types

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A specific angle I want to address here is that of infrastructure automation ; that is, the dynamic manipulation of physical resources (virtualized or not) such as I/O, networking, load balancing, and storage connections - Sometimes referred to as "Infrastructure 2.0". a Fabric), and network switches, load balancers, etc.

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Technology Short Take #48

Scott Lowe

This time around, the content is a bit heavier on cloud management and applications/operating systems, but still lots of good content all the way around (I hope, anyway). Operating Systems/Applications. Oh, and if you’re looking for a good book on vRealize Operations, look no further.). Networking. Servers/Hardware.

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Fountainhead: IO Virtualization: The ?Hypervisor? for Your.

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In essence, a server’s logical IO is consolidated down to a single (physical) converged network which carries data, storage and KVM traffic. You should think of IOV using the following analogy: The way in which the hypervisor abstracts software in the application domain, IOV abstracts IO and networking in the infrastructure domain.