Scott Lowe

JANUARY 21, 2022

Nick Schmidt talks about using GitOps with the NSX Advanced Load Balancer. Chris Evans revisits the discussion regarding Arm processor architectures in the public cloud. Kat Traxler considers the impact of the Log4J vulnerability in cloud-based environments. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Read more here.

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Linux Academy

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

Linux Academy is the only way to get exam-like training for multiple Microsoft Azure certifications. Learn how to create, configure, and manage resources in the Azure cloud, including but not limited to: Managing Azure subscriptions. Hybrid cloud. Developing apps and services for the cloud. with Chad Crowell.

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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. Michael Kashin shares the journey of containerizing NVIDIA Cumulus Linux. Networking. Good stuff.

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Scott Lowe

APRIL 15, 2022

Xavier Avrillier walks readers through using Antrea (a Kubernetes CNI built on top of Open vSwitch—a topic I’ve touched on a time or two) to provide on-premise load balancing in Kubernetes. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Operating Systems/Applications. Servers/Hardware. Cabling is hardware, right?

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All Things Distributed

JANUARY 19, 2011

AWS Elastic Beanstalk: A Quick and Simple Way into the Cloud. Flexibility is one of the key principles of Amazon Web Services - developers can select any programming language and software package, any operating system, any middleware and any database to build systems and applications that meet their requirements. Comments ().

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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.

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Scott Lowe

JUNE 18, 2021

The collection of links shared below covers a fairly wide range of topics, from old Sun hardware to working with serverless frameworks in the public cloud. Via Ivan Pepelnjak, I was pointed to Jon Langemak’s in-depth discussion of working with Linux VRFs. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Networking. Check this out.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 4, 2024

The CCA allows overarching enterprise functions and IT shared services to be assessed separately from the business unit’s products/applications that require PCI security compliance. The business teams would also be evaluated for PCI security compliance yearly, but only for the requirements applicable to their product and scope.

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

As usual, I’ve collected some articles and links from around the Internet pertaining to various data center- and cloud-related topics. I saw this headline , and immediately thought it was just “cloud native”-washing (i.e., tagging everything as “cloud native”). Cloud Computing/Cloud Management.

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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.

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Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 14, 2017

Romain Decker has an “under the hood” look at the VMware NSX load balancer. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Joe’s comment—“the merging of CDNs and cloud continues”—is pretty spot on, in my opinion. Operating Systems/Applications. Servers/Hardware. Virtualization.

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Virtualized Greek

AUGUST 27, 2013

You can save money if you consolidate your Windows & Linux workloads to fewer servers. The Second are is the higher level layers such as load balancing. Fast is the new better, Fast is the new cheaper, Faster is the new faster!” – Chris Launey Director, Cloud Hosting The Walt Disney Company. Operations.

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Scott Lowe

APRIL 6, 2017

Here’s a handy list of deprecated Linux network commands and their replacements. Konstantin Ryabitsev has a series going on securing a SysAdmin Linux workstation. Part 1 covers how to choose a Linux distribution, and part 2 discusses some security tips for installing Linux on your SysAdmin workstation. Yes, please! (I

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Linux Academy

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Practice with live deployments, with built-in access to Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, Azure, and more. . “My favorite parts about Linux Academy are the practical lab sessions and access to playground servers, this is just next level.” Cloud Systems Engineer, Amazon Web Services. ” – Mohammad Iqbal.

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Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

The rise of the disaggregated network operating system (NOS) marches on: this time, it’s Big Switch Networks announcing expanded hardware support in Open Network Linux (ONL) , upon which its own NOS is based. I use OTR with Adium on OS X, and OTR with Pidgin on my Fedora Linux laptop.). Cloud Computing/Cloud Management.

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Scott Lowe

AUGUST 17, 2018

Scott McCarty explains sVirt and how it’s used to isolate Linux containers. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Check out these articles talking about IPVS-based in-cluster load balancing , CoreDNS , dynamic kubelet configuration , and resizing persistent volumes in Kubernetes. Operating Systems/Applications.

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

Vincent Bernat has a really in-depth article on IPv4 route lookup on Linux (and one on IPv6 route lookup as well). Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. A few interesting things jumped out at me from the report; one of them was regarding an increase in “siloism” as organizations embraced multiple clouds.

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Scott Lowe

AUGUST 26, 2019

Shifting gears, Gelsinger talks about “digital life” and how that translates into millions of applications and billions of devices and billions of users. Beda shares a few details on preliminary performance results showing Pacific running workloads 30% faster than Linux VMs and 8% faster than bare metal environments.

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Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 17, 2015

If you’d like to play around with Cumulus Linux but don’t have a compatible hardware switch, Cumulus VX is the answer. It says the the JET (Juniper Extension Toolkit) uses “open application programming interfaces”, but fails to provide any specifics. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Operating Systems/Applications.

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Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 5, 2012

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. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Operating Systems/Applications. In any case, this article by Frank Denneman on Storage DRS load balancing frequency might be useful to you.

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Linux Academy

MARCH 29, 2019

As I detailed in a previous blog post, I’m continuing to update the Linux Academy AWS DevOps Pro certification course. In AWS, we work a lot with infrastructure: VPCs, EC2 instances, Auto Scaling Groups, Load Balancers (Elastic, Application, or Network). AWS Lambda, and. AWS API Gateway.

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Linux Academy

AUGUST 13, 2019

We offer tons of AWS content for the different exams, but this month the Cloud Practitioner will be our focus. Is the Cloud Practitioner role right for you? Officially, the Cloud Practitioner certification was designed for Sales, Marketing, Finance, and Executive professionals. The Cloud Practitioner exam is built for you.

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Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

Russell Bryant has a couple great articles on OVN— how to test OVN’s “EZ Bake” release with DevStack as well as an article on implementing OpenStack security groups using OVN ACLs (which in turn leverage the integration between Open vSwitch and the Linux kernel’s conntrack module). Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Storage.

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Scott Lowe

JUNE 23, 2015

The current GSA applications look like stovepipes that often implement replicated services using different technologies and solutions (different RDMS solutions, different load balancers, duplicate identity/access management solutions). This leads to a demo from Russinovich on various Microsoft integrations with Docker.

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All Things Distributed

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

Expanding the Cloud - Introducing AWS OpsWorks, a Powerful Application Management Solution. Today Amazon Web Services launched AWS OpsWorks , a flexible application management solution with automation tools that enable you to model and control your applications and their supporting infrastructure. Comments ().

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

NFV is intended to address the problem caused by having to route/direct traffic from various sources through physical appliances designed to provide services like content filtering, security, content delivery/acceleration, and load balancing. COMS002: Next Generation Cloud Infrastructure with Data Plane Virtualization.

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Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 6, 2012

Another good resource is Dan Hersey’s guide to building an SDN-based private cloud in an hour. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. For example, Cody Bunch published this article on running OpenStack Private Cloud on ESXi , and Brent Salisbury (there he is again!) Operating Systems/Applications.

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Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

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). Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Operating Systems/Applications. Networking. However, it’s at least possible with whitebox networking gear.

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ForAllSecure

JANUARY 27, 2021

Even if it's running simple Linux commands and just being in the command line to navigate around the file system, it'll get you started. And what do we need to spend to put this on Are we going to be using some cloud hosting infrastructure. This one is really great at holding your hand and just kind of getting you in the thick of it.

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ForAllSecure

JANUARY 27, 2021

Even if it's running simple Linux commands and just being in the command line to navigate around the file system, it'll get you started. And what do we need to spend to put this on Are we going to be using some cloud hosting infrastructure. This one is really great at holding your hand and just kind of getting you in the thick of it.

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Open Source Load Balancer Security Google 52

Scott Lowe

JUNE 19, 2016

Golub gives a “shout out” to the technologies underpinning modern Linux containers (namespaces, cgroups, etc., Prasad conducts a nice demo showing off the integration between OS X and Docker for Mac as he troubleshoots and debugs a multi-container application. Enhancing portability. Extending community.

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