Scott Lowe

AUGUST 6, 2021

Here’s a quick look at using Envoy as a load balancer in Kubernetes. I saw this blog post about Curiefense , an open source Envoy extension to add WAF (web application firewall) functionality to Envoy. Operating Systems/Applications. I hope this collection of links has something useful for you! Networking.

Open Source 105

Open Source Load Balancer WAN Architecture 105

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. Having segmentation between infrastructure providing data processing and data storage is an example of a broad IT security architectural pattern.

Financial 105

Financial Architecture Resources Security 105

Dataconomy

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

ZIP files are often used to reduce the size of files for easier storage or transmission. A zip bomb on the other hand is a malicious ZIP file that is designed to overwhelm a computer system with data. A denial-of-service attack is a type of attack that aims to make a computer system unavailable to its intended users.

Firewall 41

Firewall Applications Examples Load Balancer 41

All Things Distributed

JANUARY 19, 2011

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. 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.

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Load Balancer Cloud Applications Development 115

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 6, 2021

Here’s a quick look at using Envoy as a load balancer in Kubernetes. I saw this blog post about Curiefense , an open source Envoy extension to add WAF (web application firewall) functionality to Envoy. Operating Systems/Applications. I hope this collection of links has something useful for you! Networking.

Open Source 60

Open Source Load Balancer WAN Architecture 60

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. Here’s a set of 15 principles for designing and deploying scalable applications on Kubernetes. Servers/Hardware.

Linux 74

Linux Load Balancer IPv6 Licensing 74

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

The “TL;DR” for those who are interested is that this solution bypasses the normal iptables layer involved in most Kubernetes implementations to load balance traffic directly to Pods in the cluster. Daniel Sagi of Aqua Security explains the mechanics behind a Pod escape using file system mounts. Servers/Hardware.

Load Balancer 60

Load Balancer Cloud Applications Vmware 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 27, 2021

Pablo Vidal Bouza discusses Segment’s move from SSH bastion hosts to AWS Systems Manager Session Manager. (I I was going to make a joke about AWS Systems Manager Session Manager and Corey Quinn, but I couldn’t come up with anything. Operating Systems/Applications. Good stuff. So useful.). Virtualization.

Linux 90

Linux Load Balancer Malware Virtualization 90

TM Forum

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

The new system, developed as part of a TM Forum Catalyst project using the Forum’s Open Digital Architecture (ODA) and Open APIs, combines 31 separate billing systems deployed in 31 regions of the country. Unicom’s legacy billing systems were already supporting 40 billion?4G?call Processing of. 400 million users.

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System Cloud Load Balancer Architecture 150

All Things Distributed

MAY 8, 2012

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Using the AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio , you can now deploy your.NET applications to AWS Elastic Beanstalk directly from your Visual Studio environment without changing any code. All Things Distributed. Expanding the Cloud for Windows Developers. Comments ().

Development 116

Development Windows Disaster Recovery Licensing 116

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 17, 2020

Eric Sloof mentions the NSX-T load balancing encyclopedia (found here ), which intends to be an authoritative resource to NSX-T load balancing configuration and management. Operating Systems/Applications. Here’s hoping that I found something useful for you! Networking. This is kind of cool.

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Load Balancer Vmware Windows Cloud 60

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 14, 2017

Romain Decker has an “under the hood” look at the VMware NSX load balancer. This graphical summary of the AWS Application Load Balancer (ALB) is pretty handy. Operating Systems/Applications. Servers/Hardware. Nothing this time (sorry!). Ben Evans has a four-part series (so far) on vSAN.

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Load Balancer Vmware Hardware Open Source 60

Linux Academy

MARCH 28, 2019

Fail fast has become learn fast where monitoring and scanning now provides the feedback we need to keep systems safe. A big reason is the proliferation of micro-services based applications in highly redundant and highly available cloud infrastructures. N-Tier architectures and micro-services applications must be tuned for performance.

Open Source 60

Open Source Devops Linux Cloud 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 17, 2018

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. Nathaniel Avery shares a tip on saving some money by using the right servers on Azure. Virtualization.

Load Balancer 60

Load Balancer Storage Network Linux 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

Operating Systems/Applications. The series starts with part 0 (preparation), and continues with part 1 (mostly about rpm-ostree ), part 2 (container storage), part 3 (rebase, upgrade, and rollback), part 4 (package layering and experimental features), and part 5 (containerized and non-containerized applications).

Storage 60

Storage Vmware Load Balancer Network 60

Scott Lowe

JUNE 8, 2018

Kamal Kyrala discusses a method for accessing Kubernetes Services without Ingress, NodePort, or load balancers. AWS adds local NVMe storage to the M5 instance family; more details here. What I found interesting is that the local NVMe storage is also hardware encrypted. Operating Systems/Applications.

Load Balancer 60

Load Balancer Vmware Storage Intel 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 27, 2021

Pablo Vidal Bouza discusses Segment’s move from SSH bastion hosts to AWS Systems Manager Session Manager. (I I was going to make a joke about AWS Systems Manager Session Manager and Corey Quinn, but I couldn’t come up with anything. Operating Systems/Applications. Good stuff. So useful.). Virtualization.

Linux 60

Linux Load Balancer Malware Virtualization 60

Scott Lowe

APRIL 6, 2017

Operating Systems/Applications. Here’s a Windows-centric walkthrough to using Nginx to load balance across a Docker Swarm cluster. Brian Ragazzi shares a lesson learned the hard way regarding VVols: place the VSM/VASA on a non-VVol storage location. A command-line client for Twitter ? Yes, please! (I

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Storage Network 60

Scott Lowe

JUNE 21, 2019

David Holder walks through removing unused load balancer IP allocations in NSX-T when used with PKS. Operating Systems/Applications. Systango has this high-level overview of serverless application architecture along with some pros/cons, use cases, etc. I’m looking forward to seeing how NaaS evolves.

Network 60

Network Load Balancer Storage Applications 60

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. Operating Systems/Applications. Cormac Hogan has a brief update on storage options for containers on VMware.

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Vmware Linux Storage Load Balancer 60

Galido

OCTOBER 20, 2018

The Amazon VPC allows the merchant to establish a private network for all the CHD storage which is critical in complying with the PCI DSS Segmentation. When the merchant complies with this standard, it is easy for them to protect the data from security threats in the entire IT system. How Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) Helps.

How To 84

How To Load Balancer Security Cloud 84

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. Managing Your Applications and Infrastructure with Terraform.

Linux 60

Linux Course Load Balancer Google 60

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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Storage Vmware Linux Virtualization 92

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 24, 2018

Viktor van den Berg writes on deploying NSX load balancers with vRA. Most folks have probably heard about 12 Factor Applications (see here if you haven’t or if you need a refresher); this article talks about 12 basic rules and good practices for using Kubernetes optimally. Operating Systems/Applications.

Vmware 60

Vmware Load Balancer Network Open Source 60

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

Continuing on that Envoy theme, you may find this article by Matt Klein—one of the primary authors of Envoy—helpful in understanding some of the concepts behind modern load balancing and proxying. Operating Systems/Applications. Many of these concepts had direct impacts on the design of Envoy. Good stuff!

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Load Balancer Operating Systems Intel Hardware 60

Scott Lowe

JULY 13, 2018

Bernd Malmqvist talks about Avi Networks’ software-defined load balancing solution, including providing an overview of how to use Vagrant to test it yourself. Operating Systems/Applications. Lightroom is one of only a few applications that I keep around for macOS; this article gives me some alternatives.

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Load Balancer Virtualization Authentication Tools 60

Linux Academy

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

March Study Group Course: Linux Operating System Fundamentals – Have you heard of Linux, but don’t really know anything about it? Hadoop Quick Start — Hadoop has become a staple technology in the big data industry by enabling the storage and analysis of datasets so big that it would be otherwise impossible with traditional data systems.

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Linux Big Data Course Devops 80

Social, Agile and Transformation

FEBRUARY 12, 2009

Ask some CTO’s about how their product scales and they’ll whip out a logical diagram showing you redundant networks, redundant firewalls, load balancers, clustered application servers, redundant databases, and SAN storage. How do they monitor their systems for service level and capacity issues?

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Load Balancer Agile Software Development Big Data 100

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 17, 2015

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.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Architecture Hardware 60

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

Operating Systems/Applications. Lew Goettner has a pretty hefty post on CoreOS and Docker on AWS that includes information on CoreOS, user data and cloud-init, AWS and Elastic Load Balancers (ELBs), Fleet, Registrator, Nginx, Confd, and Jenkins. In case you missed it, Docker 1.9 It’s a whirlwind of technologies.

Vmware 60

Vmware Network Load Balancer Linux 60

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 23, 2013

Fishbowl was using Latisys for colocation of its internal systems and intranet, while hosting customer-facing services with another managed hosting provider. Its customer systems were growing too fast for its previous provider. Storage and bandwidth is growing accordingly.” “Email is growing 40-50% every year. .

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Cloud Data Data Center Firewall 189

Dataconomy

APRIL 28, 2023

Machine learning deployment is a crucial step in bringing the benefits of data science to real-world applications. In every case, a deployed model is associated with an application that fulfills a particular use case. This approach is best suited for applications that require periodic updates and can tolerate some delay in results.

Tools 77

Tools Open Source Architecture Applications 77

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 23, 2013

Cloud Computing » Storage. With a well-planned deployment, and a good infrastructure, companies can efficiently load-balance their IT environment between multiple active, cloud-based, sites. So, if one site should go down – users would transparently be balanced to the next nearest or most available data center. .

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Cloud Disaster Recovery Data Center Backup 250

All Things Distributed

FEBRUARY 25, 2011

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Simplifying IT - Create Your Application with AWS CloudFormation. With the launch of AWS CloudFormation today another important step has been taken in making it easier for customers to deploy applications to the cloud. Comments ().

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Applications Resources Cloud Load Balancer 123

The Accidental Successful CIO

AUGUST 3, 2011

In the past, IT departments used to set up a new server for each new application that they wanted to deploy. This low level software allowed multiple applications to run on the same physical hardware but believe that they had the box all to themselves. No longer will the storage team be able to just focus on storage issues.

Virtualization 100

Virtualization Load Balancer Data Center Vmware 100

Linux Academy

AUGUST 13, 2019

S3 – different storage classes, their differences, and which is best for certain scenarios. Load Balancers, Auto Scaling. Storage in AWS. Content Delivery and Domain Name System (DNS). The Total Cost of (Non) Ownership of Web Applications in the Cloud whitepaper. Route53 – overview of DNS.

Cloud 16

Cloud Study Training Web Services 16

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

Poonen briefly recaps yesterday’s messaging, and then moves into the focus of today’s keynote—focusing on the “any application and any device” part of the “Ready for Any” messaging. According to Poonen, the core of the solution for “any application on any device” is VMware’s Workspace Suite. What about iOS and Android devices?

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Vmware Applications Network Video 60