Scott Lowe

MARCH 10, 2023

Networking Kevin Jin’s post on the APNIC blog about network automation tools is a great read. He discusses Netmiko, NAPALM, and Nornir in some detail, and provides some guidance around which network automation tool may be right for you. Anton Kuliashov writes about why Palark uses Cilium for Kubernetes networking.

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IPv6 Linux Tools Network 74

Linux Academy

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

I’m happy to announce that Cloud Playground is now available on Linux Academy! Seven years ago we launched our first Cloud Servers interface providing the ability for Linux Academy students to spin up virtual machines on demand as part of their membership. Upgraded interface and server logs.

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Training Cloud Linux Course 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 12, 2021

Networking. Isovalent, the folks behind Cilium, recently unveiled the Network Policy Editor, a graphical way of editing Kubernetes Network Policies. Ivan Pepelnjak, the font of all networking knowledge, has been discussing cloud networking in some detail for a good while now. Want/need to better understand IPv6?

IPv6 60

IPv6 Network Storage Policies 60

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

Networking. Michael Kashin has a great article on how Open Virtual Network (OVN, part of the Open vSwitch project) implements virtual networks in OpenStack. In a bit of an older post from late summer 2016, Matt Oswalt outlines why network engineers should care about the network software supply chain. Good advice.

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Linux Network Virtualization IPv6 60

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 10, 2015

Networking. Tor Anderson has an article on using IPv6 for network boot using UEFI and iPXE. has a great blog series going called “Hey, I can DevOps my Network too!” This article provides a good introductory overview of Linux iptables commands for configuring host-based firewall rules on your Linux systems.

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Windows Firewall Linux Architecture 60

Linux Academy

JANUARY 14, 2020

This feature-full implementation of DNS service and tools aims to be 100% standards-compliant and is; intended to serve as a reference architecture for DNS software. For small or uncomplicated networks, BIND by itself is well suited to provide all DNS-related service functions. Who Uses BIND? Benefits of Using BIND.

IPv6 22

IPv6 Open Source Linux Network 22

Scott Lowe

APRIL 21, 2016

Networking. Michael Ryom has a nice (but short) article on using Log Insight along with a NetFlow proxy to help provide more detailed visibility into traffic flows between VMs on NSX logical networks. BGP seems to be emerging as an early front-runner for a standards-based control plane for software networking. Servers/Hardware.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Hardware Network 60