Linux Academy

MAY 6, 2019

We are also excited to announce Linux Academy’s next live study group, Command Line Threat Hunting. Evaluate and Perform Server Migration to Azure provides information on migrating information both on-premises and from cloud to cloud. Choose Linux — Ubuntu MATE on the Pi + The Linux Community : We take Ubuntu MATE 18.04

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Linux Course Microsoft Study 60

Linux Academy

MAY 6, 2019

We are also excited to announce Linux Academy’s next live study group, Command Line Threat Hunting. Evaluate and Perform Server Migration to Azure provides information on migrating information both on-premises and from cloud to cloud. Choose Linux — Ubuntu MATE on the Pi + The Linux Community : We take Ubuntu MATE 18.04

Linux 60

Linux Course Microsoft Study 60

Linux Academy

APRIL 29, 2019

We are also excited to announce Linux Academy’s next live study group, Command Line Threat Hunting. Evaluate and Perform Server Migration to Azure provides information on migrating information both on-premises and from cloud to cloud. Choose Linux — Ubuntu MATE on the Pi + The Linux Community : We take Ubuntu MATE 18.04

Linux 60

Linux Course Microsoft Study 60

Cloud Musings

OCTOBER 28, 2016

The CompTIA Cloud+ certification validates the skills and expertise of IT practitioners in implementing and maintaining cloud technologies. This is exactly what it takes to become a good cloud technician. The cloud will therefore spin up a new instance with a container-ready version of the OS at the bottom.

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Cloud Web Services Hardware Software 70

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. Servers/Hardware. VentureBeat discusses Armv9 , a new architectural update for Arm-based CPUs. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Networking.

Linux 60

Linux Hardware Network Cloud 60

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. Michael Kashin shares the journey of containerizing NVIDIA Cumulus Linux. Servers/Hardware.

Linux 90

Linux Load Balancer Malware Virtualization 90

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Servers/Hardware. Kay Singh collects some user comments on the new M1-powered Apple hardware. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Mete Atamel has a great walkthrough of using Workflows on Google Cloud to connect various API-driven services together. Martin Heinz discusses that very topic in this post. Programming.

Linux 60

Linux Network Tools Hardware 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 2, 2020

Redpill Linpro talks to readers about their new routers running Cumulus Linux. Servers/Hardware. This article is about hardware, just not the hardware I’d typically talk about in this section—instead, it’s about Philips Hue light bulbs. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. That’s cool.

Linux 60

Linux Windows Hardware Network 60

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 Thinking of using a hardware VTEP (VXLAN Tunnel Endpoint) with VMware NSX? Servers/Hardware. Networking.

Vmware 60

Vmware Hardware Storage Linux 60

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.

Linux 60

Linux Load Balancer Malware Virtualization 60

Scott Lowe

MAY 27, 2022

Isovalent—the company behind the Cilium project—has been talking a lot about how the use of eBPF will transform things, including the architecture of a service mesh. Servers/Hardware. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. This will become even more useful, in my opinion, when Linux support is added.

Virtualization 79

Virtualization Storage Programming Network 79

Scott Lowe

MARCH 17, 2016

At DevOps Networking Forum 2016, I had the opportunity to share a presentation on some Linux networking options. At the recent OCP Summit, Microsoft introduced Software for Open Networking in the Cloud (SONiC). Servers/Hardware. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Have fun reading! Networking.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Network Open Source 60

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 22, 2018

Servers/Hardware. On the hardware side of things, we have James Hamilton of AWS discussing two hardware-related items coming out of AWS re:Invent 2018. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Here’s another stab at a multi-cloud control plane. Benjamin Dale suggests that you don’t know JunOS.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Hardware Case Study 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

Bare Metal, Containers, and Virtualization: The Growing Choices for Cloud Applications. The first one, on virtualizing the network, did highlight an important development regarding hardware offloads for Geneve, the next-generation network overlay encapsulation protocol. Both were good sessions. That’s cool.

Intel 60

Intel Hardware Linux Virtualization 60

Scott Lowe

JULY 17, 2020

This collection is (mostly) data center- and cloud-focused, and hopefully I’ve managed to curate a list that has some useful information for readers. Jon Langemak is blogging again, and he jumps back into the “blogging saddle” with a post on working with tc on Linux systems. Servers/Hardware.

Linux 60

Linux Apple Operating Systems Policies 60

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

Servers/Hardware. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Flatpak is a (relatively) new application packaging/sandboxing mechanism for Linux applications. The post is a bit geeky but quite informative, and worth reading if SSH bastion hosts are a key part of your architecture. Not sure what a bastion host is?

Linux 60

Linux Network Virtualization IPv6 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 2, 2017

Servers/Hardware. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Massimo Re Ferre pointed me to an article by “Cloud Opinion” that discusses the upcoming SaaSocalypse that will be created by the next generation of SaaS vendors leveraging FaaS (Function-as-a-Service, as typified by AWS Lambda) and other “serverless” features.

Linux 60

Linux Devops Open Source Virtualization 60

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 28, 2016

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. As a partial counterpoint to the increased use/visibility of Linux in the networking industry, check out Ivan’s take on Dell’s OS10 announcement. Servers/Hardware.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Open Source Devops 60

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 17, 2015

If you’d like to play around with Cumulus Linux but don’t have a compatible hardware switch, Cumulus VX is the answer. Servers/Hardware. This article listing 20 Linux server hardening tips contains some basic tips but is nevertheless a very good resource for someone looking for Linux security recommendations.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Architecture Hardware 60

Scott Lowe

JUNE 2, 2016

Servers/Hardware. Intel clearly has its sights set on expanding beyond just “servers” into many more platforms, including network hardware platforms. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Matt Dorn has a good article on configuring cloud-init to use an admin password in an OpenStack environment.

Vmware 60

Vmware Virtualization Linux Windows 60

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

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). Servers/Hardware. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Michael Wittig shares some details on migrating to Amazon Linux 2. Networking.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Network Storage 60

Scott Lowe

JUNE 29, 2016

If you like geeking out over the hardware side of networking, you may find this Ars Technica article on the physical infrastructure of the global Internet to be an interesting read. (I Servers/Hardware. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. I won’t spoil Ivan’s conclusion; go read the article! The latest I’ve found: Kontena.

Linux 60

Linux Network Hardware Vmware 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. Servers/Hardware. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Networking. Feeling geeky?

Vmware 60

Vmware Storage Network Windows 60

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 14, 2017

Servers/Hardware. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Joe’s comment—“the merging of CDNs and cloud continues”—is pretty spot on, in my opinion. Richard Arnold shares some thoughts on VMware Cloud on AWS. Nothing this time (sorry!). Virtualization.

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Load Balancer Vmware Hardware Open Source 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 10, 2015

I highly recommend you read the entire post, but in short the five skills Matt recommends are software skills (which includes configuration management and software development tools like Git ), Linux, deep protocol knowledge, hypervisor and container networking, and IPv6. Servers/Hardware. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Hardware Software Development 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

This is session COMS003, titled “Enabling Network Function Virtualization and Software Defined Networking with the Intel Open Network Platform Server Reference Architecture Design.” Both Seacliff Trail (ONP Switch) and Sunrise Trail (ONP Server) will evolve over time as rack-scale architecture (RSA) matures and evolves as well.

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Intel Architecture Virtualization Network 60

Scott Lowe

MAY 25, 2018

Also, a quick note that I removed the “Servers/Hardware” and “Storage” sections this time around, as I didn’t have any useful content to share. Ben Piper shares an example of automating Cumulus Linux with Ansible. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. for very fast nested ESXi provisioning.

Devops 60

Devops Hardware Resources Cloud 60

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 28, 2016

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. As a partial counterpoint to the increased use/visibility of Linux in the networking industry, check out Ivan’s take on Dell’s OS10 announcement. Servers/Hardware.

Vmware 60

Vmware Open Source Linux Devops 60

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? Servers/Hardware. Christian Kellner talks about work done on Thunderbolt 3 security levels for GNU/Linux. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management.

Linux 60

Linux Vmware Comparison Network 60

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 6, 2013

A fan of network virtualization might also say that decomposing today’s complex physical networks into multiple simple logical networks on top of a simpler physical transport network—similar to Mike’s suggestion of converging on a smaller set of reference architectures—might also help. (Of Servers/Hardware.

Vmware 60

Vmware Storage Linux Network 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 7, 2014

Is the abstraction layer better served by being integrated into a cloud management platform, like OpenStack? Naturally, the argument then would be, “Not everyone will use a cloud management platform,” which is a valid argument. Servers/Hardware. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. x86 marches on!

Virtualization 60

Virtualization Hardware Intel Vmware 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

This is a liveblog of Intel Developer Forum (IDF) 2013 session EDCS003, titled “Enhancing OpenStack with Intel Technologies for Public, Private, and Hybrid Cloud.” The session will wrap up with a discussion of Intel’s Open IT Cloud, which is based on OpenStack. Where is Intel IT Open Cloud headed?

Intel 60

Intel Storage Open Source Hardware 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 8, 2016

Servers/Hardware. This article is an interesting read on some work being done by Microsoft Research to leverage Intel SGX to address some security concerns with today’s cloud-heavy architectures/usage models. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. ZFS will be in the next Ubuntu Linux LTS release.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Intel Network 60

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 5, 2012

I think this three-part series on new network models for cloud computing ( part 1 , part 2 , and part 3 ), while almost a year old, is quite good. Servers/Hardware. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. I could be wrong (wouldn’t be the first time).

Storage 92

Storage Vmware Linux Virtualization 92

Scott Lowe

MARCH 23, 2017

Servers/Hardware. As opposed to just encrypting data at the transport level (although Acra does that between components of its architecture) or just encrypting data at the storage level (using an encrypted file system or similar), Acra targets encrypting data at the table/row/column level within a database. Check back next time!

Open Source 60

Open Source Storage Vmware Network 60

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 27, 2017

Servers/Hardware. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. I like this article on using Couchbase on AWS from Kubernetes because it addresses an often-overlooked (in my opinion) aspect of containerized/microservices architectures: they still need to communicate to external services. (At Perhaps I should remove this section?

Firewall 60

Firewall Virtualization Network Storage 60

Scott Lowe

MAY 12, 2016

I recently spoke at Interop 2016 in Las Vegas, and while I was there I scribbled down some notes pertaining to how decomposing applications into microservices-based architectures was similar in some respects to decomposing networks into an overlay network and an underlay (physical) network. Servers/Hardware. Networking.

Vmware 60

Vmware Windows Network Agile 60