Applications Comparison Open Source Vmware 
Scott Lowe
MAY 3, 2019
Via the Kubernetes blog , Box announced it has open sourced a project called kube-iptables-tailer , which turns packet drops from iptables into Kubernetes events that can be logged for easier troubleshooting. Diógenes Rettori has a comparison of Istio and Linkerd as solutions for service mesh. Operating Systems/Applications.
Scott Lowe
FEBRUARY 24, 2018
VMware recently released a reference design guide for NSX-T; see here for more details. Dimitri de Swart has a write-up on LAMP stacks made easy with VMware and Puppet. Looks like PKS, the joint Kubernetes effort from VMware and Pivotal, has gone GA (see this VMware blog post ) with initial support for vSphere and GCP.
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Scott Lowe
MARCH 17, 2016
I recently came across a couple useful troubleshooting guides, one for Open vSwitch (OVS) and OpenStack Neutron and one for VMware NSX. Matt Oswalt recently unveiled (and open sourced) a framework called ToDD, which stands for “Testing on Demand: Distributed”. Operating Systems/Applications. Servers/Hardware.
Scott Lowe
MARCH 23, 2017
Gabriele Gerbino has a nice write-up about Cisco’s efforts with APIs ; his article includes a brief description of YANG data models and a comparison of working with network devices via SSH or via API. Acra is open source and available via GitHub. Operating Systems/Applications. Check back next time! and vSphere.
Scott Lowe
MAY 25, 2017
Anthony Shaw has a good comparison of Ansible, StackStorm, and Salt (with a particular view at applicability in a networking context). John Welsh has a post on why someone might use VMware NSX. Operating Systems/Applications. This was the source of some confusion in the past; the move to Moby sidesteps those concerns.
Scott Lowe
MAY 25, 2017
Anthony Shaw has a good comparison of Ansible, StackStorm, and Salt (with a particular view at applicability in a networking context). John Welsh has a post on why someone might use VMware NSX. Operating Systems/Applications. This was the source of some confusion in the past; the move to Moby sidesteps those concerns.
Scott Lowe
JANUARY 14, 2016
Dwayne Sinclair (an NSX SE at VMware) has a write-up on what micro-segmentation is not. VMware open-sourced an identity and access management service called Lightwave ( project web site , GitHub repo ). Operating Systems/Applications. Good stuff here—I highly recommend reading this paper.
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