Scott Lowe

MAY 17, 2019

This article by Bob Killen provides a good foundation of information on understanding Kubernetes authentication (AuthN) and authorization (AuthZ; implemented via RBAC). Operating Systems/Applications. Cindy Sridharan has a good article on health checks and graceful degradation in distributed systems.

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Linux Dell Open Source Licensing 60

Scott Lowe

APRIL 19, 2019

This article discusses four open source secrets management tools. Many organizations prefer to use two-factor authentication (2FA) to help protect their systems. ” Operating Systems/Applications. Sysdig explains PSPs, and talks about kube-psp-advisor , a tool to help simplify deploying PSPs.

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Open Source Tools Policies Cloud 60

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 14, 2016

This is a fascinating (to me, at least) paper on the implications of non-volatile storage on today’s data centers (and data center hardware). VMware open-sourced an identity and access management service called Lightwave ( project web site , GitHub repo ). Operating Systems/Applications. Servers/Hardware.

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Vmware Devops Storage Linux 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 2, 2020

Colleague and teammate Eric Shanks takes readers through what’s necessary to do Active Directory authentication for Kubernetes clusters. Operating Systems/Applications. Side note: you’ll probably start seeing more Pure Storage-focused content from Jase moving forward.). Both are good articles.

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Linux Windows Hardware Network 60

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 14, 2016

This is a fascinating (to me, at least) paper on the implications of non-volatile storage on today’s data centers (and data center hardware). VMware open-sourced an identity and access management service called Lightwave ( project web site , GitHub repo ). Operating Systems/Applications. Servers/Hardware.

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Devops Vmware Storage Open Source 60

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 5, 2012

Erik Smith, notably known for his outstanding posts on storage and FCoE, takes a stab at describing some of the differences between SDN and network virtualization in this post. I found this series of posts to be helpful when I was working on configuring LACP with Open vSwitch (I hope to have a blog post on that up soon).

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 22, 2021

In 2013, researcher Nitesh Dhanjani found that a popular brand used simple MD5 hashes of the device's MAC addresses for authentication. Problem is, MAC addresses are not great for authentication. Woods: If you think about the overall system, within which some of these devices live. It's still a threat.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 22, 2021

In 2013, researcher Nitesh Dhanjani found that a popular brand used simple MD5 hashes of the device's MAC addresses for authentication. Problem is, MAC addresses are not great for authentication. Woods: If you think about the overall system, within which some of these devices live. It's still a threat.

Internet 52

Internet Research Security Tools 52

Scott Lowe

MARCH 20, 2020

Chris Wahl touches on the topic of using GitHub personal tokens to authenticate to HashiCorp Vault. Operating Systems/Applications. Kornelis Sietsma looks at the options for working with multiple git identities on a single system. You can also go get your fill of storage-related links from J Metz. Virtualization.

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Linux Vmware Authentication Storage 60

Scott Lowe

APRIL 21, 2016

Mike Foley recently published a two-part series on two factor authentication (2FA) for vSphere ( part 1 is here ; part 2 is here ). Operating Systems/Applications. Although it’s not feature-complete (by a long shot), VMware recently open-sourced version 0.1 Cloud Computing/Cloud Management.

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 30, 2022

This service holds metadata about the currently running virtual machine instance, such as storage, network configuration and more. Their Operating System type was set to windows. The WA agent is an open source software hosted on GitHub. So before they elevated their privileges they couldn’t see iIMDS.

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