Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

In this post, I’m going to discuss how to use the popular command line utility curl to interact with a couple of RESTful APIs—specifically, the OpenStack APIs and the VMware NSX API. Let’s start with passing some JSON data to a REST API to authenticate. Example 1: Authenticating to OpenStack.

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SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

They have also been known to exploit VMware Horizon Log4j vulnerabilities. In February 2022, the actors exploited a Log4j vulnerability (likely CVE-2021-44228, CVE-2021-45046, and/or CVE-2021-45105) in a VMware Horizon application to gain access to the network of a U.S. Implement Multifactor Authentication. police department.

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Scott Lowe

AUGUST 29, 2017

Prior to the keynote, a number of announcements were released; here’s a quick look at a few of them: VMware and AWS Announce Initial Availability of VMware Cloud on AWS. VMware Integrated OpenStack 4.0 Gelsinger welcomes the crowd, and takes a minute to reflect upon his time at CEO of VMware.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

This approachability is part of the allure of Dué Cucina, a fast-growing fast casual restaurant serving authentic Italian cuisine with three locations in residential neighborhoods across Seattle. But 20 minutes later, I got a text notification: there was a bag with my name on it at a small eatery in Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood.

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Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

Troy Hunt has a good article on security measures other than just passwords , explaining some of the differences between multi-factor authentication and multi-step authentication (for example). Highly recommended reading. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. AWS Outposts is Amazon’s move into the hybrid cloud market.

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Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 27, 2019

Teammate Alex Brand has a look at VMware’s new OVS-based CNI plugin, Antrea. I recently saw an article stating that VMware is going to use Minio as the object storage platform for Kubernetes, but the evidence presented in the article is anything but convincing. Servers/Hardware. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management.

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Scott Lowe

JUNE 18, 2021

Sonia Cuff provides a set of links for detailed instructions on setting up VPN access from macOS to Microsoft Azure with Azure Active Directory authentication. Patrick Kremer walks through using Postman to implement BGP route filtering with VMware Cloud on AWS. I think this post is interesting/useful for a couple different reasons.

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Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Evgeny Khabarov’s part 4 in a series on using Envoy as an API gateway talks about authentication and authorization (aka AuthN/AuthZ). William Lam shares some information on using kube-vip with VMware’s new Tanzu Community Edition (TCE). Chris Evans shares his take on VMware’s Project Capitola. Virtualization.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Whenever applications or machines communicate with each other, the vast majority of them use TLS certificates to establish trust, identify each other to systems, as well as securely authenticate and encrypt communications,” Palanisamy adds. When data needs to be secured in transit, machine identity plays a vital role,” he says. “As

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Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Evgeny Khabarov’s part 4 in a series on using Envoy as an API gateway talks about authentication and authorization (aka AuthN/AuthZ). William Lam shares some information on using kube-vip with VMware’s new Tanzu Community Edition (TCE). Chris Evans shares his take on VMware’s Project Capitola. Virtualization.

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Scott Lowe

JANUARY 15, 2021

The popular open source cryptography library known as Bouncy Castle has uncovered a severe authentication bypass vulnerability. From early December 2020, there’s also this reminder about the security updates released by VMware to address a zero-day vulnerability in several products. More details are available in this article.

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Scott Lowe

MAY 22, 2015

Along with Docker, VMware worked with the Center for Internet Security (CIS) to prepare a security benchmark for Docker 1.6 available here ), and has updated VMware vRealize Configuration Manager to support assessing containerized environments against this benchmark. This list of VMware and Vagrant performance hacks is quite handy.

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Scott Lowe

JANUARY 6, 2023

This could be bad—a wormable vulnerability that could allow attackers to remotely execute code by exploiting potentially any Windows application protocol that provides authentication, including (potentially) SMTP or HTTP. Get more details in this article. Nigel Douglas shows how to mitigate DoS (Denial of Service) attacks in Kubernetes.

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

You’ll need to know working OpenStack credentials, like your username, password, tenant (project) name, and authentication URL. Specify OpenStack authentication information. Specify OpenStack authentication information. LTS, KVM hypervisors, and VMware NSX for networking. Driving OpenStack with Vagrant. flavor = "m1.small"

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Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

This session will not focus on the VMware announcement regarding VMware Cloud on AWS. IAM offers fine-grained access for AWS resources, offers multi-factor authentication for highly privileged users, and can integrate with corporate directories. This gives local authentication both on-premises as well as in AWS.

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Scott Lowe

JANUARY 14, 2016

Dwayne Sinclair (an NSX SE at VMware) has a write-up on what micro-segmentation is not. VMware open-sourced an identity and access management service called Lightwave ( project web site , GitHub repo ). Good stuff here—I highly recommend reading this paper. Micro-segmentation is one of those terms (like SDN, cloud, DevOps, etc.)

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Scott Lowe

MAY 27, 2022

Along those lines, one of their latest articles discusses how to achieve identity-based mutual authentication leveraging eBPF. The world of virtualization—nay, more than just virtualization—will be forever changed with the announcement of Broadcom’s acquisition of VMware. Career/Soft Skills.

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Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

Docker Machine also supports local hypervisors, such as VMware Fusion or VirtualBox. Note that if your user account isn’t a member of the “libvirt” group, you’ll get prompted for authentication for most every docker-machine command, even just listing machines.).

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Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 5, 2012

Some folks from Nicira (now part of VMware) recently published a blog post discussing the OVSDB IETF draft (see here ). I came across this post on CloudFoundry’s User Account and Authentication Service (the UAA). Networking Security Storage Virtualization Automation KVM Linux OpenStack OSS OVS vCloud VMware' Networking.

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Scott Lowe

JULY 13, 2018

Chris Hein shows how to use the Heptio Authenticator with kops to link Kubernetes cluster authentication to AWS IAM. Cormac Hogan walks through setting up the Minio object store on top of VMware vSAN. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Joe Duffy takes the wraps off Pulumi , which looks very interesting. Virtualization.

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Cloud Musings

NOVEMBER 20, 2016

Participants include AT&T, Canonical, Cisco, DreamHost, Deutsche Telekom, Fujitsu, HPE, Huawei, IBM, Intel, Linaro, Mirantis, OSIC, OVH, Rackspace, Red Hat, SUSE and VMware. Knowing this, the Openstack Interop Challenge looks toward cultivating success by leveraging the open source cloud technology as a common integration layer.

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Scott Lowe

JULY 5, 2019

Lennart Koopmann provides a guide to Yubikey authentication in the real world. Mischa Buijs reviews using a SATADOM boot device with VMware ESXi. This article talks about a recent vulnerability in the kubectl command, which is typically used to interact with Kubernetes clusters. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Virtualization.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 14, 2023

comdivision and VMware show how leading-edge cloud solutions help customers gain a competitive lead in their industries For more than 25 years, comdivision has drawn from its deep well of infrastructure knowledge to help organizations gain business value from leading-edge technologies. comdivision was ready to deliver.

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Scott Lowe

JANUARY 14, 2016

Dwayne Sinclair (an NSX SE at VMware) has a write-up on what micro-segmentation is not. VMware open-sourced an identity and access management service called Lightwave ( project web site , GitHub repo ). Good stuff here—I highly recommend reading this paper. Micro-segmentation is one of those terms (like SDN, cloud, DevOps, etc.)

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Scott Lowe

APRIL 19, 2019

Many organizations prefer to use two-factor authentication (2FA) to help protect their systems. Bahubali (Bill) Shetti walks through analyzing the cost of a self-managed Kubernetes cluster on AWS using VMware CloudHealth. ClusterScope is a handy tool for finding outdated images in your Kubernetes cluster.

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Scott Lowe

JUNE 8, 2015

You’ll need Ansible installed on the system where you’ll be running Vagrant and the appropriate back-end virtualization platform (I tested this with VMware Fusion , but there’s nothing VMware-specific here). I can show that information with this command: ansible -m setup all. Just run Ansible and be done.

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

Here, the use of Vagrant with AWS is a bit different than the use of Vagrant with a provider like VirtualBox or VMware Fusion / VMware Workstation. Read AWS authentication information from environment variables. Once you’ve installed the vagrant-aws plugin, you’ll next need to install a box that Vagrant can use.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 18, 2022

We recently connected with Hans Derksen, marketing manager and William van Tienen, technical product manager, to learn more about Interconnect and what it means to achieve the VMware Cloud Verified distinction. All of Interconnect’s private, public, and multi-cloud related solutions use VMware technologies. “We

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 31, 2022

Indeed, passwordless authentication is worth celebrating, but every EOL requires a strategic plan to ensure a graceful transition. With the convenience and ease of passwordless authentication, it’s now possible to smooth the transition for your customers enough to achieve 100% adoption. This article explains how. That’s lost revenue.

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ComputerWorld Consumerization IT

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

Enterprise mobility is often a tug-of-war between freedom-seeking employees and security-minded IT departments, but VMware aims to make those differences go away. Single-Sign On access, for example, leverages Secure App Token Systems for authentication.

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 20, 2020

Chris Wahl touches on the topic of using GitHub personal tokens to authenticate to HashiCorp Vault. William Lam provides a sneak peek at deploying Tanzu Kubernetes Grid on vSphere and VMware Cloud on AWS. Robert Guske has a three-part series on running Linux development desktops with VMware Horizon ( part 1 , part 2 , and part 3 ).

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

LTS, KVM hypervisors, and VMware NSX for networking. Docker Machine authenticates against OpenStack (using the URL, username, password, and tenant specified in environment variables or on the command line). I tested this setup with the following components: The client system was running OS X 10.9.5 with the Docker 1.8.2

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Scott Lowe

AUGUST 26, 2014

Ben Fathi, CTO of VMware, takes the stage to start the keynote, and goes through a recap of yesterday’s announcements: EVO and EVO:RAIL, vCloud Air rebranding and the availability of new services, VMware Integrated OpenStack (VIO), and new product versions (vCloud Suite 5.8, betas of vSphere and VSAN).

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Scott Lowe

JUNE 8, 2018

In October 2016 I wrote about a triple-provider Vagrant environment I’d created that worked with VirtualBox , AWS , and the VMware provider (tested with VMware Fusion ). each do |net| section works for the local virtualization providers (VirtualBox, VMware, and Libvirt), but is silently ignored for AWS. The machine[nics].each

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Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 4, 2016

In this case, it will work (mostly) unmodified with AWS , VirtualBox , and the VMware provider (tested with Fusion, but should work with Workstation as well). Specify access/authentication information. Here’s that code: # Set per-machine VMware provider configuration/overrides. box = 'aws-dummy'. provider 'aws' do | aws |.

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 10, 2023

Security Jeff Warren discusses a potential way for malicious players to bypass multi-factor authentication, aka the “Pass the Cookie” attack. If you’re into the VMware homelab thing (and I know quite a few folks are), then William’s article on interesting homelab kits for 2023 might be right up your alley.

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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 ). VMware’s Cloud-Native Apps group recently released v0.8 Although it’s not feature-complete (by a long shot), VMware recently open-sourced version 0.1 via VMware Photon OS TP2. Virtualization.

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