Scott Lowe

AUGUST 6, 2021

Here’s a quick look at using Envoy as a load balancer in Kubernetes. Back in April of this year, Patrick Ogenstad announced Netrasp , a Go package for writing network automation tooling in Go. This post on using SPIFFE/SPIRE, Kubernetes, and Envoy together shows how to implement mutual TLS (mTLS) for a simple application.

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Open Source Load Balancer WAN Architecture 60

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. The Grafana folks have introduced Tanka , a new tool aimed a simplifying the task of managing Kubernetes manifests. Virtualization.

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Load Balancer Vmware Windows Cloud 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. Interesting article here on Chick-Fil-A’s use of Kubernetes in their restaurants, and the tools/process they follow for establishing those clusters.

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Load Balancer Virtualization Authentication Tools 60

Linux Academy

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

Deploying and managing virtual machines. Create a Load Balanced VM Scale Set in Azure. Create and Configure an Application Gateway in Azure. Azure developers design and build cloud solutions such as applications and services. Creating and managing alerts. Configuring resource policies and alerts.

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Course Training Storage Microsoft 80

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. Operating Systems/Applications. jq is probably one of my favorite CLI tools.

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Linux Load Balancer Malware Virtualization 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 27, 2013

Carl also revisits the three “imperatives” that Pat shared yesterday: Extending virtualization to all of it. Carl brings out Kit Colbert, a principal engineer at VMware (and someone who relatively well-recognized within the virtualization community). So what does this functionality give application owners?

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Vmware Load Balancer Storage Firewall 67

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. Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization. Unfortunately, this appears to be GKE-specific.

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Load Balancer Cloud Applications Vmware 60

Galido

OCTOBER 20, 2018

How Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) Boosts Data Protection. How Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) Helps. It works together with the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud ( Amazon EC2 ) to allow clients to choose application programming interfaces. Better still, there are GRC technology tools that you can use to simplify the process.

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How To Load Balancer Security Cloud 84

Scott Lowe

JUNE 8, 2018

Kamal Kyrala discusses a method for accessing Kubernetes Services without Ingress, NodePort, or load balancers. His points are spot-on: making the control plane highly available isn’t going to improve the availability or scalability of your applications. Operating Systems/Applications. Handy tool!

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Load Balancer Vmware Storage Intel 60

Linux Academy

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

It provides a huge range of virtual machines suitable for general purpose and specialized on-demand compute tasks. Ansible is a powerful automation tool that can be used for managing configuration state or even performing coordinated multi-system deployments. The kubectl command-line tool is an extremely extensive and powerful utility.

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Load Balancer Backup Applications Linux 19

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.

Open Source 60

Open Source Devops Linux Cloud 60

Scott Lowe

JUNE 18, 2021

The first is a post on Cilium and F5 load balancer integration , while the second discusses implementing Kubernetes network policies with Cilium and Linkerd. Hari Rana has a detailed discussion of security concerns regarding Flatpak (a packaging format for Linux applications). Operating Systems/Applications.

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Vmware Hardware Load Balancer Apple 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

Jason Edelman of Network2Code also has a post on intent-based network automation with Ansible , in which he breaks down the idea of intent-based networking (IBN) and how tools such as Ansible or NAPALM can make it possible. ” If your shop is into OpenStack, you might want to give this tool a look. Operating Systems/Applications.

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Storage Vmware Load Balancer Network 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. Google’s Project Zero team posted an update on finding and exploiting Safari bugs using publicly available tools.

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Load Balancer Operating Systems Intel Hardware 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. Red Hat discusses efforts around containerizing open-vm-tools to better support the use of Atomic OS instances running on VMware infrastructure. Virtualization. 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. Virtualization. Good stuff!

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Network Load Balancer Storage Applications 60

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

Open Virtual Network (OVN) is really ramping up and getting lots of attention, which I personally think is absolutely well-deserved. Sean Collins has an article on building a cheap, compact, and multinode DevStack environment for a home lab that lays out some server hardware decisions and the tools he uses to manage them. Networking.

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Vmware Network Load Balancer Linux 60

Linux Academy

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

By the end of the course, you will have experienced configuring NGINX as a web server, reverse proxy, cache, and load balancer, while also having learned how to compile additional modules, tune for performance, and integrate with third-party tools like Let’s Encrypt. No prior AWS experience is required.

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Linux Big Data Course Devops 80

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 17, 2015

It says the the JET (Juniper Extension Toolkit) uses “open application programming interfaces”, but fails to provide any specifics. ACS offers multiple “endpoints,” each of which enables you to use a particular open source container/orchestration tool. Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization. Good write-up.

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Vmware Linux Architecture Hardware 60

The Accidental Successful CIO

AUGUST 3, 2011

Sure Virtualization Seems Neat In The Beginning, But…. To read the IT trade journals or speak with CIOs you’d think that we’ve all found the magic silver bullet that IT’s been looking for during the past few years: server virtualization. Virtualization has its own set of problems and we need to have a talk….

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Dataconomy

JULY 26, 2023

Developers can seamlessly integrate ChatGPT into their applications using API access as one of the ChatGPT login options ( Image credit ) What should you do now? API access ChatGPT API provides programmatic access, enabling developers to integrate its capabilities into their applications seamlessly. davinci, curie, etc.)

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Artificial Intelligence Applications How To Tools 68

KineticData

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

By choosing containerization of our application components, we’ve removed the uncertainties and complexities of the underlying infrastructure. Containerization allows us to abstract the operating system that our application runs on into the “container” that the application is running in, as well as any related dependencies.

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Devops Strategy Applications Load Balancer 59

Fountainhead

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. IO Virtualization: The “Hypervisor” for Your Infrastructure. More than ever in 2010, IO Virtualization (IOV) has been showing-up in products, written about, spoken about. IO Virtualization. Fountainhead. Monday, December 13, 2010.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 17, 2013

Paul Speciale is Chief Marketing Officer at Appcara , which is a provider of a model-based cloud application platform. Numerous IT management tools are available today for use with the cloud, but the rubber meets the road at the level of the application because this is what a user will actually “use.” PAUL SPECIALE.

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Data Center Cloud Data Applications 203

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

The first concept that Recep discusses is network virtualization. He believes that network virtualization is primarily about decoupling network services from the underlying network infrastructure. The specific terminology involved is that the virtual switches become a VTEP, a virtual tunnel end-point.

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Intel Load Balancer Architecture Virtualization 61

Dataconomy

AUGUST 6, 2023

As our world becomes increasingly reliant on swift and efficient data manipulation, parallel processing emerges not merely as a technological tool, but as an indispensable linchpin shaping the very trajectory of our technological future. How artificial intelligence went from fiction to science?

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Artificial Intelligence Architecture Applications Data 36

Fountainhead

MAY 6, 2010

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Converged Infrastructure and Unified Computing are both terms referring to technology where the complete server profile, including I/O (NICs, HBAs, KVM), networking (VLANs, IP load balancing, etc.), skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead.

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Data Center Virtualization Storage Network 100

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 16, 2013

In 2003, I founded Blue Box from my college dorm room to be a managed hosting company focused on overcoming the complexities of highly customized open source infrastructure running high traffic web applications. Private cloud is a relatively new phenomenon, and for many has really meant advanced virtualization.

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