Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 31, 2018

In December 2016, I kicked off a migration from macOS to Linux as my primary laptop OS. In this post, I’d like to recap where things stand as of December 2018, after 8 months of full-time use of Linux as my primary laptop OS. Linux Distribution. Applications.

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Linux Academy

MAY 2, 2019

Reduce and Simplify Your Application Stack. In a typical application, either run in a traditional datacenter or colocation facility, you’re paying for the application itself, the underlying OS, hypervisor, storage, servers or VMs, SAN, networking, power, and so on. Questions about the concepts presented in this article?

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Scott Lowe

APRIL 11, 2017

In December 2016, I kicked off a migration to Linux (from OS X) as my primary laptop OS. Let me start by saying that I am actively using a Linux-powered laptop as my primary laptop right now, and I have been doing so since early February. Linux Distribution. Applications. LTS (“Xenial Xerus”).

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Galido

JUNE 22, 2016

On start up, it reads the whole directory tree once and then presents it in three useful views: It enables you to view a directory list, which resembles the tree view of the Windows Explorer but is sorted by file/subtree size. QDirStat (Linux). It runs on every X11-based desktop on Linux, BSD and other Unix-like systems.

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Linux Academy

MAY 1, 2019

Reduce and Simplify Your Application Stack. In a typical application, either run in a traditional datacenter or colocation facility, you’re paying for the application itself, the underlying OS, hypervisor, storage, servers or VMs, SAN, networking, power, and so on. Questions about the concepts presented in this article?

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Linux Academy

MAY 1, 2019

Reduce and Simplify Your Application Stack. In a typical application, either run in a traditional datacenter or colocation facility, you’re paying for the application itself, the underlying OS, hypervisor, storage, servers or VMs, SAN, networking, power, and so on. Questions about the concepts presented in this article?

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Linux Academy

APRIL 9, 2019

From new courses to new labs, we have a ton of exciting new Google Cloud updates at Linux Academy ( where you can get the most Google Cloud training on this planet! ). Practice what you’re learning by spinning up live environments within Linux Academy! Deploying an App Engine Application. Working with Google Cloud Storage.

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Linux Academy

APRIL 18, 2019

Consider the typical items in your budget in a traditional IT environment like hardware maintenance costs, costs associated with OS patching, storage administration, and testing. For storage and data transfer, pricing is tiered. Questions about the concepts presented in this article? More on Maximizing the Business Value of AWS.

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Linux Academy

JUNE 17, 2019

Whether you’re building an application, or you’re running complex infrastructure for a large corporation, you’ll eventually encounter repetitive tasks that need to be completed again and again. Configure your application to connect to your newly created database. Because of how it is presented. LPI Linux Essentials 1.6.

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Scott Lowe

JUNE 24, 2022

BPFDoor, as it is known, is a passive backdoor that allows threat actors to remotely connect to a Linux shell. While his post specifically addresses the AWS CDK, I think that some of his conclusions could also be applicable to other “infrastructure-as- actual -code” tools like Pulumi. Operating Systems/Applications.

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Scott Lowe

APRIL 15, 2022

Although Linux is often considered to be superior to Windows and macOS with regard to security, it is not without its own security flaws. I, personally, would posit that Linux can be more secure than other platforms, but it requires proper configuration and can still be undone by a loose nut behind the keyboard. Virtualization.

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Linux Academy

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Networking is a complicated topic, so to simplify it, I’ll borrow an analogy from Tom Haslett , the instructor of Linux Academy’s AWS Essentials course. S3 is Amazon’s Simple Storage Service, and true to its name, it is pretty simple once you understand it. The simplest real-world equivalent to S3 is, well, a storage service.

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 10, 2023

This article by Kirill Shirinkin provides, in the author’s words, “some guidelines that will help you to assess if Argo CD makes sense for your setup” Operating Systems/Applications Stewart X Addison shares some macOS “first experiences” from a Linux user. Thank you for reading!

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

This is a live blog of session DATS004, titled “Bare-Metal, Docker Containers, and Virtualization: The Growing Choices for Cloud Applications.” Weaver starts his presentation by talking about “how we got here”, discussing the various technological shifts that have affected the computing landscape over the years.

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Scott Lowe

MAY 27, 2022

Operating Systems/Applications. For relevant storage news, I’d recommend having a look at J Metz’ Storage Short Take 42. One project that caught my attention was Tart , a CLI-driven tool that leverages the virtualization support present in macOS to run virtual macOS instances. Programming. Virtualization.

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Scott Lowe

APRIL 17, 2013

Florian starts out the presentation with a slide that says, “This is a business, not a science project.” Finally, Florian acknowledges that his presentation will probably be a bit biased toward service provider-type use cases. In other words, “mind the gap” between applications and platforms.

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Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

Don’t be surprised, then, to see me start talking more about switching away from OS X, and exploring applications and tools that work on other platforms. Further, I need to ensure that the applications I need to get my job done will be present on my next platform. Macintosh iPhone Linux' The only constant is change.

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 17, 2016

At DevOps Networking Forum 2016, I had the opportunity to share a presentation on some Linux networking options. If you’d like to see the presentation, it’s available on Slideshare and Speakerdeck. If you’d like to re-create the demo environment, check out the presentation’s GitHub repository.

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Dataconomy

JUNE 9, 2023

As software applications become increasingly complex, it becomes imperative to adopt effective techniques that can uncover potential issues and enhance the overall quality of the codebase. Dynamic code analysis plays a crucial role in ensuring the quality, reliability, and performance of software applications.

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Scott Lowe

JULY 21, 2016

First up, there’s a great article on using IPVLAN with Docker and Cumulus Linux (with a tie back to sFlow, naturally!). Here’s a walkthrough by Cody Bunch on setting up BGP on Linux with Cumulus Quagga. Operating Systems/Applications. The article also has a link to a paper that Burns will present at HotCloud ‘16.

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Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 29, 2016

Andrey Khomyakov shares some information on automating the setup of whitebox switches running Cumulus Linux in part 2 of this series on learning network automation. Kit Colbert shares 5 predictions for cloud-native applications in 2017. Operating Systems/Applications. Alpine Linux 3.5 was recently released.

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Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 5, 2012

Erik Smith, notably known for his outstanding posts on storage and FCoE, takes a stab at describing some of the differences between SDN and network virtualization in this post. Operating Systems/Applications. Is Cisco’s Insieme effort producing a storage product? storage enhancements. It starts here.

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Cloud Musings

OCTOBER 16, 2016

Cloud Operations: This module helps you study the management of cloud operations and addresses the application need for compute power, managing CPU scaling, and meeting both structured and unstructured storage requirements.

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Linux Academy

MARCH 26, 2019

By adding free cloud training to our Community Membership, students have the opportunity to develop their Linux and Cloud skills further. Each month, we will kick off our community content with a live study group allowing members of the Linux Academy community to come together and share their insights in order to learn from one another.

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Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Open standards includes, according to Kuo, built-in APIs and conformance; these provide consistent behavior around expectations for developers deploying applications or developing applications to be deployed onto Kubernetes. However, applications are more than just these areas. What’s the answer?

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Scott Lowe

MAY 29, 2020

tackles the question of whether an API gateway is needed if a service mesh is present. Operating Systems/Applications. For those new to Linux virtualization—or even if you’ve been around Linux virtualization for a while—this article explaining how Intel VT-x, QEMU, and KVM work together is full of good information.

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Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 27, 2019

Operating Systems/Applications. I recently saw an article stating that VMware is going to use Minio as the object storage platform for Kubernetes, but the evidence presented in the article is anything but convincing. I recently spotted Multipass , a virtualization solution for working with Linux instances.

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Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 8, 2014

Let’s be real—the ability for an application to protect itself (and its data) from rogue software (including a compromised or untrusted operating system) is huge. Operating Systems/Applications. This site presents a convincing argument for multi-process containers; have a look. What is Intel SGX, you ask?

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The Accidental Successful CIO

MARCH 9, 2016

In order for the software to operate correctly, the supporting software in the environment has to be identical to the software that was present when the software was developed. The network topology might be different, or the security policies and storage might be different. The software that your team has created has to run on it.

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Cloud Musings

JANUARY 30, 2017

Cloud Operations: This module helps you study the management of cloud operations and addresses the application need for compute power, managing CPU scaling, and meeting both structured and unstructured storage requirements.

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Scott Lowe

JANUARY 6, 2018

This post is a bit older, but covers a challenge faced by cloud-native darling Netflix—how does one, exactly, identify which application used which IP address at a given point in time? Christian Kellner talks about work done on Thunderbolt 3 security levels for GNU/Linux. Operating Systems/Applications. Servers/Hardware.

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Dataconomy

APRIL 13, 2023

The ability to remotely access and control computers has been a game-changer for businesses, allowing them to provide technical support and troubleshoot issues without having to be physically present at the location. What is Virtual Network Computing (VNC)?

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CTOvision

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

This year it is better than ever, with a great set of presentations from government experts who have done really incredible things with data in support of critical missions. This popular gathering is designed to enable dialogue about business and technical strategies to leverage today’s big data platforms and applications to your advantage.

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 11, 2014

The best way to describe Docker is to use the phrase from the Docker web site—Docker is “an open source project to pack, ship and run any application as a lightweight container.” Docker containers provide a standard, consistent way of packaging just about any application. (At LTS as the Linux platform.

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 23, 2017

Cossack Labs recently released Acra , a database encryption suite designed to protect applications against data leaks by providing strong encryption. Operating Systems/Applications. Check back next time! Mike Foley tackles the topic of TLS 1.2 and vSphere. Acra is open source and available via GitHub. Or is there more I’m not seeing?

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Scott Lowe

JUNE 4, 2013

Via Forbes Guthrie on Twitter, I saw this post on how to setup a CA on Linux and use it in a Windows environment. I’ve mentioned in some of my OpenStack presentations (see SpeakerDeck or Slideshare ) that a great place to start if you’re just getting started is DevStack. Operating Systems/Applications. App Firewall?

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Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

Here are my thoughts, hopefully presented in a somewhat logical fashion. Kubernetes seems focused on addressing the needs of container-based microservices-centric application architectures. However, there now seem to be some efforts to push Kubernetes to support other types of applications as well. Yes, certainly.

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