Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 8, 2021

There’s some networking stuff, a few security links, and even a hardware-related article. Networking. Russ White shares Russ' rules for network design. Jimmy Mankowitz talks in some detail about using NSX-T in vSphere with Tanzu to secure applications. Operating Systems/Applications.

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Scott Lowe

MAY 3, 2019

Networking. Via BlueCat Networks, John Capobianco shares his network automation journey. Via BlueCat Networks, John Capobianco shares his network automation journey. Keybase discusses some challenges with encrypted chat applications and how their architecture avoids some of those challenges.

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Vmware Open Source Intel Applications 60

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 27, 2023

I’ve got another collection of links to articles on networking, security, cloud, programming, and career development—hopefully you find something useful! Networking William Morgan’s 2022 service mesh recap captures some of the significant events in service mesh in 2022, although through a Linkerd-colored lens.

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Scott Lowe

APRIL 6, 2017

Networking. Matt Oswalt has a great post on the need for networking professionals to learn basic scripting skills—something he (rightfully) distinguishes from programming as a full-time occupation. Further, he follows that up with a post on how automation is more than just configuration management ; it’s about network services.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 24, 2023

Your IT estate has the potential to afford developer teams more flexibility and agility to place workloads across on-premises systems, public and private clouds, colocation facilities and edge networks. Not to mention the systems supporting workloads deployed as a result of fulfilling ad-hoc requests from various business lines.

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Scott Lowe

JUNE 18, 2021

Networking. The first is a post on Cilium and F5 load balancer integration , while the second discusses implementing Kubernetes network policies with Cilium and Linkerd. Patrick Kremer walks through using Postman to implement BGP route filtering with VMware Cloud on AWS. Operating Systems/Applications.

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Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Networking. Ivan Pepelnjak addresses the idea that network automation is harmful. I believe that IT folks in all disciplines, including networking, need to embrace automation. William Lam writes about the beta for VMware Cloud Consumption Interface (CCI). Operating Systems/Applications.

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Scott Lowe

JUNE 2, 2016

Networking. Anthony Burke has written a script that uses VMware NSX to protect VMware Log Insight instances. Russ White tackles the issue of networking engineers needing to learn to code. Jason Messer has an article describing how networking works with Windows containers. Operating Systems/Applications.

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Vmware Virtualization Linux Windows 60

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 6, 2023

Networking. Ivan Velichko has been publishing some great articles on container-focused networking concepts; the latest (that I’d seen as of the writing of this article) is this one on publishing the port of a running container. Numerous Networks has some information on optimizing Wi-Fi 6E networks for Apple devices.

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Network Vmware Cloud Operating Systems 74

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 24, 2018

Networking. VMware recently released a reference design guide for NSX-T; see here for more details. The engineering team at Lyft recently discussed a new overlay-free networking approach they’ve been working on for Kubernetes: IPVLAN-based CNI stack for running within VPCs on AWS. (For Operating Systems/Applications.

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Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 29, 2021

The list of articles is a bit shorter than usual this time around, but I’ve still got a good collection of articles and posts covering topics in networking, hardware (mostly focused on Apple’s processors), cloud computing, and virtualization. Networking. Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization.

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Vmware Cloud Network Hardware 74

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 19, 2018

Networking. Matt Klein breaks down service mesh components , using terms networking professionals know well, like “data plane” and “control plane.” ” Those familiar with networking concepts will identify well with the ideas in this article, I think. Operating Systems/Applications.

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Vmware Open Source Linux Cloud 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 12, 2022

Networking. Operating Systems/Applications. Jorge Castro tears into the “wasting disk space” argument against the Flatpak application package format. Edwin Weijdema shares how he uses VMware Fusion 12 on his MacBook Pro (Intel-based, I’m assuming) to run a mobile lab with nested ESXi hypervisors.

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Linux Storage Virtualization Hardware 90

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

Networking. VMware recently released an updated to PowerCLI (version 6.5.3), and with it comes a set of cmdlets that provide low-level access to the NSX-T REST API. I really enjoyed David Gee’s series on the network automation engineer persona ( part 1 , part 2 , part 3 , and part 4 ). Operating Systems/Applications.

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Vmware Storage Engineering Network 60

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

Networking. 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. Servers/Hardware. Check this out.

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Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 8, 2016

Networking. Will Robinson talks about how to structure your Ansible playbooks in the context of using Ansible to control your network gear. This is an interesting project to watch, I think—it’s porting OVN (Open Virtual Network) from a “traditional” OvS back-end to an IOVisor-based back-end (IOVisor implements the data plane in eBPF).

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Scott Lowe

MAY 22, 2015

Welcome to Technology Short Take #51, another collection of posts and links about key data center technologies like networking, virtualization, cloud management, and applications/operating systems. Networking. VXLAN overlay networks between AWS and GCE? Here’s one way , using Ravello Systems.

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Fountainhead

MARCH 18, 2013

Two recent announcements lead me to making an interesting business strategy observation about two opposing approaches to dominating these markets: VMwares recent announcement that it intends to venture into the public cloud ( assessment courtesy of James Staten ). VMware: A Strategy Expanding from Enterprise to Public.

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 17, 2016

Networking. At DevOps Networking Forum 2016, I had the opportunity to share a presentation on some Linux networking options. Here’s another topic that came up at the recent DevOps Networking Forum: Spotify’s SDN Internet Router (SIR). Here’s some information on Nuage Networks’ experimental Docker Network plugin.

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Vmware Linux Network Open Source 60

Scott Lowe

JUNE 24, 2022

Networking. 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. Here’s Chris Evans’ take on the Broadcom acquisition of VMware.

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Vmware Linux Storage Virtualization 74

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 11, 2016

In this post you’ll find a collection of links to articles discussing the major data center technologies—networking, hardware, security, cloud computing, applications, virtualization…you name it! (If Networking. Numan Siddique describes the native DHCP support available in OVN (Open Virtual Network). Servers/Hardware.

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Scott Lowe

JULY 22, 2013

Networking. The networking “old guard” likes to talk about how x86 servers and virtualization create network bottlenecks due to performance concerns, but as Ivan points out in this post , it’s rapidly becoming—or has already become—a non-issue. Operating Systems/Applications.

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Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 6, 2013

Networking. In this post on why networking needs a Chaos Monkey , Mike Bushong applies to the terms to networks—a snowflake network is an intricately crafted network that is carefully tailored to utilize a custom subset of networking features unique to your environment. Here’s a good source.

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Vmware Storage Linux Network 60

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 29, 2021

The list of articles is a bit shorter than usual this time around, but I’ve still got a good collection of articles and posts covering topics in networking, hardware (mostly focused on Apple’s processors), cloud computing, and virtualization. Networking. Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization.

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Vmware Cloud Network Hardware 60

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

I’ve got a wide range of topics for you this time around—eBPF, Falco, Snort, Kyverno, etcd, VMware Code Stream, and more. Networking. Justin Pietsch Has a lengthy article on why network engineers need to focus on getting the network out of the way. Operating Systems/Applications.

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Vmware Storage Study Network 60

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 15, 2021

Networking. From early December 2020, there’s also this reminder about the security updates released by VMware to address a zero-day vulnerability in several products. Heidi Howard and Ittai Abraham illustrate some of the challenges of the Raft consensus protocol when there is a network partition.

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Linux Firewall Open Source Vmware 60

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Networking. This article provides a few practical examples of how using VPC Endpoints to reduce network traffic moving through NAT Gateways can help save money. Operating Systems/Applications. Leave it to Ivan to school everyone on Ethernet encapsulations. Bassem Rezkalla shows how to remove these stale clusters.

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Devops Virtualization Engineering Storage 87

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Networking. Isovalent—the company behind Cilium, the eBPF-powered networking solution for Kubernetes clusters—just launched with a $29M Series A round of funding. Adrian’s operational review readiness template is another great post as well. Operating Systems/Applications. Good stuff!

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Linux Vmware Open Source Examples 60

Scott Lowe

APRIL 15, 2022

Networking. Want to understand kube-proxy , a key part of Kubernetes networking, a bit better? Here’s a set of 15 principles for designing and deploying scalable applications on Kubernetes. Operating Systems/Applications. Steven Bright shows how to deploy Salt minions automatically using VMware Tools.

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Linux Load Balancer IPv6 Licensing 74

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

Networking. Sam McGeown has a nice diagram of the communications channels between the various VMware NSX components. I particularly liked his (mini-)rant about how network automation can’t be only about making the network engineer’s life easier. Operating Systems/Applications.

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Vmware Linux Network Storage 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 16, 2017

This is my irregularly-published collection of links and articles from around the Internet related to the major data center technologies: networking, hardware, security, cloud computing, applications/OSes, storage, and virtualization. Networking. to VMware NSX 6.2.5 Operating Systems/Applications.

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Scott Lowe

AUGUST 8, 2014

Welcome to Technology Short Take #43, another episode in my irregularly-published series of articles, links, and thoughts from around the web, focusing on data center technologies like networking, virtualization, storage, and cloud computing. Networking. Jason Edelman recently took a look at Docker networking. Servers/Hardware.

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Vmware Linux Virtualization Network 60

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 9, 2016

Networking. PowerShell on Cumulus Linux on a network switch? Lindsay Hill recently took Simon Wardley’s pioneers/settlers/town planners (PST) model—which is itself based on Cringely’s Accidental Empires book and the commandos/infantry/police model—and applied to it the networking industry. Operating Systems/Applications.

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Vmware Case Study Linux Network 60

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

Networking. see below in the “Operating Systems/Applications” section), Metaswitch has announced a Container Networking Interface (CNI) plugin for Project Calico. First up, Matt goes on a bit of a rant regarding SDN and network automation. Both these articles came out of Network Field Day 11 , by the way.).

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Vmware Network Operating Systems Virtualization 60

Scott Lowe

MAY 4, 2017

Networking. There’s lots of talk about applying test-driven development (TDD) principles in various automation contexts, but I like the fact that Ajay Chenampara provides some practical examples in his blog post on applying TDD in network automation using Ansible. If you’re just starting your network automation journey, start small.

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Vmware Storage Network Examples 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Networking. ” Nick Buraglio exposes the different kinds of NAT —helpful if you’re new to networking and want to better understand NAT and the nuances involved. I suppose it’s a win-win deal for both VMware and AWS (else why bother?), Operating Systems/Applications. Servers/Hardware.

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Vmware Conference Cloud Windows 60

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

Networking. Via Kirk Byers (who is himself a fantastic resource), I read a couple of articles on network automation that I think readers may find helpful. First up is a treatise from Mircea Ulinic on whether network automation is needed. I first ran into Forward Networks a few years ago at Fall ONUG in New York.

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