Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 31, 2021

This is the last Technology Short Take of 2021, so hopefully I’ll close the year out “with a bang” with this collection of links and articles on various technology areas. This is useful, in my opinion, because now platform operators have a “starting point” on the specific threats they need to try to mitigate.

Open Source 94

Open Source Virtualization Applications Security 94

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 9, 2022

This article provides a few practical examples of how using VPC Endpoints to reduce network traffic moving through NAT Gateways can help save money. Rory McCune has a series of articles on PCI compliance in containerized and Kubernetes environments. food references in the title of this article are almost too much.

Devops 87

Devops Virtualization Engineering Storage 87

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 6, 2021

I saw this blog post about Curiefense , an open source Envoy extension to add WAF (web application firewall) functionality to Envoy. I really enjoy these AWS open source news and updates posts. This is a thorny topic full of design considerations, and this AWS article discusses a few of them. Virtualization.

Open Source 105

Open Source Load Balancer WAN Architecture 105

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!

Virtualization 79

Virtualization Storage Programming Network 79

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 27, 2023

I’ve got another collection of links to articles on networking, security, cloud, programming, and career development—hopefully you find something useful! This article on using osquery for behavioral detection of macOS malware was an interesting read. Read this article and you will be enlightened.

Programming 90

Programming Open Source Cloud Devops 90

Galido

MARCH 19, 2019

These areas of IT include general IT and technology, security, IT feeds, cloud computing, data center, mobile, social media, tips and tricks, virtualization, and operating system and software blogs. Sign up here for those links: Information Technology Articles. Find the links to these blogs in the descriptions below.

Resources 113

Resources Mobile Data Center Security 113

Scott Lowe

JUNE 24, 2022

I’d never heard of Pipy before seeing it in this article , but it look like it could be quite useful for a number of use cases. Tetragon is Isovalent’s newly open-sourced security framework. Rob Salmond has a good article on Prometheus service discovery, Istio, and mTLS. Operating Systems/Applications.

Vmware 74

Vmware Linux Storage Virtualization 74

Scott Lowe

JULY 22, 2022

I particularly like how the authors of this post on the principle of ephemerality included a “homework/call to action” section for each of the major areas discussed in the article. Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization. I really enjoyed this article by Jan Schaumann on learning by lurking.

System 79

System Open Source Cloud Policies 79

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 6, 2021

I saw this blog post about Curiefense , an open source Envoy extension to add WAF (web application firewall) functionality to Envoy. I really enjoy these AWS open source news and updates posts. This is a thorny topic full of design considerations, and this AWS article discusses a few of them. Virtualization.

Open Source 60

Open Source Load Balancer WAN Architecture 60

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 27, 2019

Bruce Schneier writes about how some Chinese hackers are bypassing RSA software token authentication (the title is a bit more broad, implying other forms of two-factor authentication are affected, but the article focuses on attacks against the use of RSA software tokens). Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization.

Open Source 60

Open Source Vmware Authentication Storage 60

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Thanks to this article , that oversight is now corrected. Oh, and the article shares a handy Python script to help implement bogon filtering in NSX-T. Components involved include the open source Kuma service mesh (in turn leveraging Envoy), anycast BGP, and mutual TLS (mTLS). Seriously.). Servers/Hardware.

Storage 79

Storage Hardware Policies Open Source 79

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Over the last few weeks, I’ve been collecting articles I wanted to share with readers on major areas in technology: networking, security, storage, virtualization, cloud computing, and OSes/applications. Also see the link to the newer article the author wrote as a follow-up. As fate (luck?)

Programming 96

Programming Policies Network Cloud 96

Scott Lowe

MAY 17, 2019

There will be a longer gap than usual before the next Tech Short Take (more details to come on Monday), but in the meantime here’s some articles and links to feed your technical appetite. Michael Allen published an article on weaponizing the Yubikey. Operating Systems/Applications. Networking. Servers/Hardware.

Linux 60

Linux Dell Open Source Licensing 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

This is a slightly older article (from January of this year) in which Josh Saul of Hedgehog pays homage to the achievements of Cumulus Networks in the open networking movement. Michael Kashin has a good post on source IP address selection in Linux. Exploiting cloud VMs via a remote serial/console service?

Vmware 74

Vmware Network Hardware Cloud 74

Galido

MAY 1, 2019

The deeper we dive into modern technology terms, the more it seems we try to blend physical and virtual worlds together. These areas of tech include general IT and technology, security, IT feeds, cloud computing, data center, mobile, social media, tips and tricks, virtualization, and operating system and software blogs.

Resources 107

Resources Mobile Data Center Security 107

Galido

MARCH 22, 2019

The deeper we dive into modern technology terms, the more it seems we try to blend physical and virtual worlds together. These areas of tech include general IT and technology, security, IT feeds, cloud computing, data center, mobile, social media, tips and tricks, virtualization, and operating system and software blogs.

Resources 107

Resources Mobile Data Center Security 107

Scott Lowe

APRIL 15, 2022

This article contains some good information on IPv6 for those who are just starting to get more familiar with it, although toward the end it turns into a bit of an advertisement. Warning: I’m not sure the configuration as described in the article will actually work, but the concept is sound.) Operating Systems/Applications.

Linux 74

Linux Load Balancer IPv6 Licensing 74

Scott Lowe

MAY 3, 2019

I hope the collection of links and articles I’ve gathered for you contains something useful for you. Via the Kubernetes blog , Box announced it has open sourced a project called kube-iptables-tailer , which turns packet drops from iptables into Kubernetes events that can be logged for easier troubleshooting. Networking.

Vmware 60

Vmware Open Source Intel Applications 60

Cloud Musings

MARCH 9, 2018

According to the former Equifax CEO’s testimony to Congress , one of the primary causes of this now infamous data breach was the company’s failure to patch a critical vulnerability in the open source Apache Struts Web application framework. A process to identify vulnerabilities in hardware, operating systems, and applications.

Operating Systems 79

Operating Systems Enterprise Enterprise Virtualization 79

Galido

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

The deeper we dive into modern technology terms, the more it seems we try to blend physical and virtual worlds together. These areas of tech include general IT and technology, security, IT feeds, cloud computing, data center, mobile, social media, tips and tricks, virtualization, and operating system and software blogs.

Mobile 77

Mobile Data Center Security Virtualization 77

Galido

MARCH 19, 2019

These areas of IT include general IT and technology, security, IT feeds, cloud computing, data center, mobile, social media, tips and tricks, virtualization, and operating system and software blogs. Sign up here for those links: Information Technology Articles. Find the links to these blogs in the descriptions below.

Resources 66

Resources Mobile Data Center Security 66

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. See this SDx Central article or this Network World article for more details.). (See See this SDx Central article or this Network World article for more details.). Networking.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Open Source Devops 60

Scott Lowe

APRIL 19, 2019

I have, however, finally managed to pull together this list of links and articles from around the Internet, and I hope that something I’ve included here proves useful to readers. This article discusses four open source secrets management tools. ” Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization.

Open Source 60

Open Source Tools Policies Cloud 60

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 19, 2018

Today I have another collection of data center technology links, articles, thoughts, and rants. ” Those familiar with networking concepts will identify well with the ideas in this article, I think. Via Maish Saidel-Keesing, I saw this post about 10 open source Kubernetes tools for highly effective SRE and Ops teams.

Vmware 60

Vmware Open Source Linux Cloud 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 1, 2019

Daniel Dib has a great article on how network engineers need to evolve. VyOS is an open source Linux-based network operating system.). Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization. If you’re looking for a reasonably gentle introduction to the concept, check out this article.

Operating Systems 60

Operating Systems Authentication Network Open Source 60

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 5, 2018

Here’s another collection of articles and blog posts about some of the common technologies that modern IT professionals will typically encounter. Brian Boucheron provides a great article on how to inspect and debug Kubernetes network primitives. Sathyajith Bhat covers five open source tools for container security.

Hardware 60

Hardware Open Source Vmware Linux 60

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Open source has become so critical to so many aspects of our computing infrastructure. This article is chock-full of useful information that, typically, can only be gathered from direct experience (like the note on using istioctl instead of the Istio Operator to avoid an issue when upgrading from 1.6 Virtualization.

Linux 60

Linux Vmware Open Source Examples 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. See this SDx Central article or this Network World article for more details.). (See See this SDx Central article or this Network World article for more details.). Networking.

Vmware 60

Vmware Open Source Linux Devops 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. 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. Both are good articles.

Linux 60

Linux Windows Hardware Network 60

Galido

OCTOBER 18, 2018

If you are reading this article, it means that you want to start studying programming. When programming applications for the operating system of Apple, iOS, and therefore to create apps for iPhone and iPad, you must use the Objective-C language. Kotlin is an open source language. Objective-C.

Programming 81

Programming Operating Systems Open Source Applications 81

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 2, 2020

I’m back with another collection of articles on various data center technologies. This time around the content is a tad heavy on the security side, but I’ve still managed to pull in articles on networking, cloud computing, applications, and some programming-related content. More details are found in this article.

Linux 60

Linux Programming Cloud Open Source 60

Scott Lowe

JULY 5, 2019

I also appreciate that Jon included a “Lab time” section in his article that encourages readers to try out the concepts he’s explaining. If you’re unfamiliar with public key infrastructure (PKI), digital certificates, or encryption, you may find this Linux Journal article helpful. Operating Systems/Applications.

Storage 60

Storage Hardware Open Source Vmware 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 23, 2017

However, hopefully I’ve managed to gather together some articles with useful information for you. Biruk Mekonnen has an introductory article on using Netmiko for network automation. Acra is open source and available via GitHub. There’s some good information in this article; I recommend reading it. Networking.

Open Source 60

Open Source Storage Vmware Network 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 2, 2017

Skydive is (in the project’s own words) an “open source real-time network topology and protocols analyzer.” 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.

Linux 60

Linux Devops Open Source Virtualization 60

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 14, 2016

As we start a new year, here’s a collection of links and articles from around the web. Nir Yechiel posted an article on using the Cumulus VX QCOW2 image with Fedora and KVM. Here’s an article on an effort to add Cisco IOS support to NAPALM. Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization. Networking.

Vmware 60

Vmware Devops Storage Linux 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. Of course, I am a fan of network virtualization, since I work with/on VMware NSX.). (Of Operating Systems/Applications.

Vmware 60

Vmware Storage Linux 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. Matt Oswalt recently unveiled (and open sourced) a framework called ToDD, which stands for “Testing on Demand: Distributed”. Operating Systems/Applications. Have fun reading! Networking.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Network Open Source 60