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Liveblog: IPv6 in the Cloud - Protocol and Service Overview

Scott Lowe

This is a liveblog of an AWS re:Invent 2017 breakout session titled “IPv6 in the Cloud: Protocol and Service Overview.” ” The presenter’s name is Alan Halachmi, who is a Senior Manager of Solutions Architecture at AWS. T-Mobile, for example, now has 89% of their infrastructure running on IPv6.

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Interop Liveblog: IPv6 Microsegmentation

Scott Lowe

This session was titled “IPv6 Microsegmentation,” and the speaker was Ivan Pepelnjak. The session starts with a discussion of the problems found in Layer 2 IPv6 networks. Note that some of these attacks are also common to IPv4 and are not necessarily unique to IPv6. Can we use shared Layer 3 IPv6 subnets?

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Technology Short Take 138

Scott Lowe

Want/need to better understand IPv6? Alex Gurbych discusses a microservices architecture, including adapting the concepts to actual services and offerings from AWS. Virtualization. Denise Fishburne has you covered. Denise also has you covered if you need BGP knowledge. Operating Systems/Applications.

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Technology Short Take #77

Scott Lowe

Michael Kashin has a great article on how Open Virtual Network (OVN, part of the Open vSwitch project) implements virtual networks in OpenStack. Simon Leinen (from SWITCHengines) explains their use of IPv6 with OpenStack. Virtualization. Good advice. John Kozej has a write-up on an NSX logical switch packet walk.

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Introducing Cloud Playground: Even More Hands-On Training Features

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. At any given time, our Cloud Servers platform managed 20,000+ virtual machines. Upgraded interface and server logs.

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All About BIND DNS: Who, How, & Why

Linux Academy

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. While each view is typically treated as a separate virtual server, in recent years BIND has added features to make it easier to share data between views.

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Technology Short Take #49

Scott Lowe

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. Virtualization. Servers/Hardware.

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