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Liveblog: IPv6 in the Cloud - Protocol and Service Overview

Scott Lowe

This is a liveblog of an AWS re:Invent 2017 breakout session titled “IPv6 in the Cloud: Protocol and Service Overview.” Global IPv6 adoption is currently around 22%, and is expected to hit 25% by the end of the year. T-Mobile, for example, now has 89% of their infrastructure running on IPv6.

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Interop Liveblog: IPv6 Microsegmentation

Scott Lowe

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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Technology Short Take 146

Scott Lowe

Denise Fishburne has a 7-part series on IPv6. Jimmy Mankowitz talks in some detail about using NSX-T in vSphere with Tanzu to secure applications. Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization. There’s some networking stuff, a few security links, and even a hardware-related article. Networking.

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What Can You Get from an IP Address and Why is it Important?

Galido

Lastly, there’s the application layer. Here’s how to tell apart the following IP addresses: IPv4 and IPv6. When it comes to IPv4 and IPv6 addresses, these are mainly used to find your location and identify who you are. This is created from a lot of different kinds of protocols like: File Transfer Protocol.

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Technology Short Take 146

Scott Lowe

Denise Fishburne has a 7-part series on IPv6. Jimmy Mankowitz talks in some detail about using NSX-T in vSphere with Tanzu to secure applications. Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization. There’s some networking stuff, a few security links, and even a hardware-related article. Networking.

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Technology Short Take 153

Scott Lowe

This article contains some good information on IPv6 for those who are just starting to get more familiar with it, although toward the end it turns into a bit of an advertisement. Here’s a set of 15 principles for designing and deploying scalable applications on Kubernetes. Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization.

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Technology Short Take #84

Scott Lowe

Sjors Robroek describes his nested NSX-T lab that also includes some virtualized network equipment (virtualized Arista switches). I wouldn’t take this information as gospel, but here’s a breakdown of some of the IPv6 support available in VMware NSX. Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization. Servers/Hardware.

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