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. Michael Kashin shares the journey of containerizing NVIDIA Cumulus Linux.

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Linux Load Balancer Malware Virtualization 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 11, 2023

As a side note, I am curious to know what other CPU architectures, if any, are affected. Will something like this spark a (larger) migration to ARM-based architectures? If you need a foundational review of Amazon ECS, this article is a good starting point. Here we go again.

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Programming Architecture Linux Construction 60

Linux Academy

MAY 2, 2019

We can track changes after moving into an AWS-based architecture. Questions about the concepts presented in this article? Make sure your staff are properly prepared with hands-on training from Linux Academy. With Linux Academy for Business , you can: Increase your IT team’s efficiency. With a $14.2M Next Steps.

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Linux Storage Web Services Applications 84

Network World

JANUARY 4, 2018

First, to be clear, these exploits affect all the major computer chip architectures. And all the major software vendors of Linux, Microsoft for Windows, Apple for macOS, and virtualization software suppliers such as VMware and Citrix have all collaborated to mitigate this threat. To read this article in full, please click here

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Intel Vmware Linux Architecture 84

Network World

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

Just what the world needs, another Linux distro. It takes concepts from the Flux Advanced Security Kernel (FLASK) architecture, which was used in SELinux and SEBSD, but builds a new OS from scratch with security in mind, enabling what he calls "global Default Deny at the process level." Talk about slow development time.

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Malware Linux Architecture Security 80

Network World

MARCH 27, 2018

Internal tests from a leading industry vendor have shown that fixes applied to servers running Linux or Windows Server aren’t as detrimental as initially thought, with many use cases seeing no impact at all. Skylake, though, was a whole new architecture, and as it turns out, that made the difference.

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Linux Architecture Windows Virtualization 70

Linux Academy

MAY 1, 2019

We can track changes after moving into an AWS-based architecture. Questions about the concepts presented in this article? Make sure your staff are properly prepared with hands-on training from Linux Academy. With Linux Academy for Business , you can: Increase your IT team’s efficiency. With a $14.2M Next Steps.

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Linux Storage Web Services Applications 60

Linux Academy

MAY 1, 2019

We can track changes after moving into an AWS-based architecture. Questions about the concepts presented in this article? Make sure your staff are properly prepared with hands-on training from Linux Academy. With Linux Academy for Business , you can: Increase your IT team’s efficiency. With a $14.2M Next Steps.

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Linux Storage Web Services Applications 60

Scott Lowe

JULY 17, 2020

Ivan Pepelnjak has a fantastic article on adapting network design to acommodate automation. Jon Langemak is blogging again, and he jumps back into the “blogging saddle” with a post on working with tc on Linux systems. Bruno Hildenbrand shares 20 tips for managing Linux VMs on Azure. Networking. Servers/Hardware.

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Linux Apple Operating Systems Policies 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 2, 2020

It seems like the natural progression of the Tech Short Takes is moving toward monthly articles, since it’s been about a month since my last one. Redpill Linpro talks to readers about their new routers running Cumulus Linux. This article from Bruce Schneier is worth reading. Both are good articles. Servers/Hardware.

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Linux Windows Hardware Network 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 17, 2016

In any case, here’s another collection of links and articles from around the Net on the major data center technology areas. At DevOps Networking Forum 2016, I had the opportunity to share a presentation on some Linux networking options. You may also find this (related) article on memory inside Linux containers to be helpful.

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Vmware Linux Network Open Source 60

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 11, 2020

This is an older article, but hopefully still useful nevertheless: Brian Mathews explains how to use the linkerd sidecar to find and fix application issues on Kubernetes. Here’s a two-part series (so far) on setting up a multi-architecture Kubernetes cluster ( part 1 , part 2 ). The sidecar pattern is one such example.).

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Linux Network Tools Hardware 60

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

I’ve got a new collection of links and articles from around the Web on various data center-focused technologies. Michael Kashin has a great article on how Open Virtual Network (OVN, part of the Open vSwitch project) implements virtual networks in OpenStack. Have a look at the article for more details. Networking. Good advice.

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Linux Network Virtualization IPv6 60

Scott Lowe

MAY 27, 2022

I mean, don’t you want to spend this weekend catching up on some technology-related articles instead of cooking on the grill and gathering with friends and family? Still, for those who need a little technology fix over the weekend, hopefully I’ve included something useful in the list of articles below. I certainly hope not!

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Virtualization Storage Programming Network 79

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

This includes cgroups (the ability to control resource allocation/utilization), which is built into the Linux kernel. The discussion now transitions into a quick review of the underlying Docker architecture. There is a Docker daemon that runs on Linux; the Docker client can be run elsewhere. Docker Making Its Move.

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Virtualization Linux Intel Construction 100

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 MTU in OpenStack Neutron has been, as this article by Sam Yaple points out, a bit of a touchy subject. Networking. Servers/Hardware.

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Vmware Hardware Storage Linux 60

Scott Lowe

MAY 7, 2021

In this Technology Short Take, I’ve gathered some links for you covering topics like Azure and AWS networking, moving from macOS to Linux (and back again), and more. VentureBeat discusses Armv9 , a new architectural update for Arm-based CPUs. Let’s jump right into the content! Networking. Servers/Hardware.

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Linux Hardware Network Cloud 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 2, 2017

OK, now that I’ve mentioned Skydive, I can talk about this article that provides an example of functional SDN testing with Terraform and Skydive. I found this article on SELinux concepts for humans to be quite helpful. Check out this article that discusses using AWS Spot Instances and spotinst to run low-cost Kubernetes clusters.

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Linux Devops Open Source Virtualization 60

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 28, 2016

As usual, I’ve gathered what I hope to be a useful but varied collection of articles and links on key data center technologies. The rise of Linux in importance in the networking industry continues, with Arista announcing enhancements to Arista EOS to support—among other things—Docker containers. Networking. Servers/Hardware.

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Vmware Linux Open Source Devops 60

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

Ready for another round of links, articles, and thoughts on data center technologies? Amit Aneja has a two-part series (so far) explaining the routing architecture in NSX-T (which brings multi-hypervisor and multi-cloud support to the NSX platform). In the last Tech Short Take, I shared an article by Kynan Riley on node affinity.

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Vmware Linux Network Storage 60

Linux Academy

APRIL 24, 2019

In particular, in this article, we will review the high-level process of migrating a virtual machine to the Google Cloud Platform. This agent is available for both Windows and Linux operating systems ( look at the detailed list of supported platforms here ). One of these providers is the Cloud Endure service.

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Cloud Google Virtualization Linux 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

In recent years, we’ve seen more devices running off-the-shelf software (like Linux). Is the Linux bridge efficient enough? Verplanke next reviews some of the I/O optimizations and architecture of the Xeon E5 2600 series platform. This article was originally posted on blog.scottlowe.org.

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Virtualization Intel Cloud Data 113

Scott Lowe

MARCH 12, 2021

This is truly an information-dense article, and if working with the AWS API Gateway falls into your job responsibilities then this is probably a good post to read. This article by Vlad Ionescu on EKS DNS at scale is a great read, well worth your time if you work with Kubernetes. Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization.

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IPv6 Network Storage Policies 60

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 28, 2016

As usual, I’ve gathered what I hope to be a useful but varied collection of articles and links on key data center technologies. The rise of Linux in importance in the networking industry continues, with Arista announcing enhancements to Arista EOS to support—among other things—Docker containers. Networking. Servers/Hardware.

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Vmware Open Source Linux Devops 60

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 17, 2015

Before I present this episode’s collection of links, articles, and thoughts on various data center technologies, allow me to first wish all of my readers a very merry and very festive holiday season. Mustafa Akin has an article on Docker’s new overlay networking functionality. Now, on to the content! Networking. This looks handy.

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Vmware Linux Architecture Hardware 60

Scott Lowe

MAY 22, 2016

Late last week, Cyrus Durgin from Luminus Networks published an article on SDx Central titled “The (R)evolution of Network Operations.” You may notice that my name is mentioned at the bottom of the article as someone who provided feedback. Whitebox/britebox hardware with Linux-based NOSes.

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Network Architecture Linux Groups 60

Scott Lowe

JUNE 2, 2016

This article from Marcos Hernandez shows one way to do dynamic routing in OpenStack. Jason Messer has an article describing how networking works with Windows containers. AlgoSec has a couple of articles published last year before VMworld 2015, but I just now came across them. I tend to agree with Russ’ line of thinking.

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Vmware Virtualization Linux Windows 60

Cloud Musings

JANUARY 30, 2017

This NCTA program was designed to provide IT professionals with a strong foundation in cloud technologies, and overall cloud architecture and management of cloud infrastructure, as well as a solid technical background in modern web services deployment and administration. Grab this Headline Animator ( Thank you.

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Web Services Architecture Cloud Programming 70

Galido

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Featuring cross platform support on Linux, macOS and Windows, VSCode has built in code completion for your node.js A cross platform editor with OS X, Windows and Linux support, Atom runs on Electron and enables deep customization and styling. This article was originally published on JSCharting. Visual Studio Code. Conclusion.

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Development Tools Linux Programming 72

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 22, 2018

This is a slightly older article by Mitch Beaumont that I’ve had sitting in the hopper for a while. This article by Paul Johnston provided (for me, anyway) a very usable and understandable explanation of Lambda Layers and custom runtimes for Lambda. Dave Taylor provides s ome tips for configuring VMware Fusion for Linux usage.

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Vmware Linux Hardware Case Study 60

Scott Lowe

JUNE 29, 2016

Welcome to Technology Short Take #68, my erratically-published collection of links, articles, and posts from around the web—all focused on today’s major data center technologies. Both articles are useful, IMHO, especially considering that MACVLAN is no longer experimental as of the Docker 1.12 Servers/Hardware.

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Linux Network Hardware Vmware 60

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 6, 2013

Welcome to Technology Short Take #37, the latest in my irregularly-published series in which I share interesting articles from around the Internet, miscellaneous thoughts, and whatever else I feel like throwing in. Martijn Smit has launched a series of articles on VMware NSX. Here’s hoping you find something useful! Networking.

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Vmware Storage Linux Network 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. Welcome to Technology Short Take #85! PowerNSX in a container? Cloud Computing/Cloud Management.

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Vmware Storage Network Windows 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 8, 2016

Tony Sangha has a nice article providing step-by-step instructions on setting up a site-to-site IPSec VPN between VMware NSX and a Cisco CSR 1000v. Roie Ben Haim has an article on how to improve the NSX GUI user experience. Trevor Roberts recently posted an article discussing Windows images in your OpenStack cloud.

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Vmware Linux Intel Network 60

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

However, as Major points out in his article, the role works anywhere, OpenStack cloud or not. Lior Kamrat has a multi-part series on an architecture that blends Mesosphere DC/OS, Azure, Docker, and VMware vSphere. After a recent complaint by yours truly on Twitter regarding notifications on Windows 10, I was directed to this article.

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Vmware Storage Engineering Network 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 10, 2015

I have here for your reading pleasure an eclectic collection of links and articles from around the web, focusing on data center-related technologies. It tells me that some skills—specifically, Linux, automation/configuration management, software development concepts—are going to be essential for all new IT pros in the near future.

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Vmware Linux Hardware Software Development 60

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 6, 2018

Via Ivan Pepelnjak, I found this article by Diane Patton at Cumulus Networks talking about container network designs. Christian Kellner talks about work done on Thunderbolt 3 security levels for GNU/Linux. Tony Bourke has a two-part series on ZFS and Linux and encryption ( part 1 , part 2 ). Servers/Hardware. Virtualization.

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