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Technology Short Take 151

Scott Lowe

I have a few more links than normal this time around, although I didn’t find articles in a couple categories. Don’t worry—I’ll keep my eyes peeled and my RSS reader ready to pull in new articles in those categories for next time. Nick Schmidt talks about using GitOps with the NSX Advanced Load Balancer.

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Thinking Out Loud: Targeting the Real Problem

Scott Lowe

Based on what I’ve seen and read so far, it seems like a lot of folks see software-defined networking (SDN), especially hop-by-hop OpenFlow, as the solution to manual VLAN provisioning. The real problem is the configuration and management of network policy: stuff like QoS, VLANs, ACLs, NAT, VRFs, firewalls, load balancing, etc.

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Technology Short Take 95

Scott Lowe

Nevertheless, I have persevered in order to deliver you this list of links and articles. VPCs, or Virtual Private Clouds, are Amazon’s software-defined networking mechanism for workloads running on AWS.). Viktor van den Berg writes on deploying NSX load balancers with vRA. I hope it proves useful! Networking.

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AIOps and our Robot Kubernetes Kops

Linux Academy

Fast and frequent releases of production-ready software now slide though automated tests, staging and into production infrastructures. High speed low latency networks now allow us to add these nodes anywhere in a cloud infrastructure and configure them under existing load balancers.

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Technology Short Take #58

Scott Lowe

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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Technology Short Take #48

Scott Lowe

Welcome to Technology Short Take #48, another installation in my irregularly-published series that collects links, articles, and thoughts from around the web. Craig Matsumoto of SDxCentral recently published a piece on NFV performance ; that article was based largely on a blog post by Martin Taylor of Metaswitch found here. Networking.

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Managing What Matters In the Cloud: The Apps » Data Center.

Data Center Knowledge

The latter can be open-source software such as OpenStack, CloudStack or commercial products such as Citrix CloudPlatform or VMware Cloud Director (VCD). The user level elements that are managed within such an IaaS cloud are virtual servers, cloud storage and shared resources such as load balancers and firewalls.