Scott Lowe

MARCH 17, 2016

Check out Mark Russinovich’s blog post on SONiC , then pop over to Kamala Subramaniam’s more in-depth SONiC post. Matt Oswalt recently unveiled (and open sourced) a framework called ToDD, which stands for “Testing on Demand: Distributed”. Servers/Hardware. Here’s the Docker blog post talking about the performance study.

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Vmware Linux Network Open Source 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 23, 2017

Gabriele Gerbino has a nice write-up about Cisco’s efforts with APIs ; his article includes a brief description of YANG data models and a comparison of working with network devices via SSH or via API. Servers/Hardware. Acra is open source and available via GitHub. installation caused by duplicate NSX Manager UUIDs.

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Open Source Storage Vmware Network 60

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 14, 2016

Cumulus VX, if you aren’t aware, is a community-supported virtual appliance version of Cumulus Linux aimed at helping folks preview and test “full-blown” Cumulus Linux (which, of course, requires compatible hardware). Servers/Hardware. Micro-segmentation is one of those terms (like SDN, cloud, DevOps, etc.)

Devops 60

Devops Vmware Storage Open Source 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 16, 2017

Anthony Shaw has a good comparison of Ansible, StackStorm, and Salt (with a particular view at applicability in a networking context). Servers/Hardware. Check out this blog on work done to bring firmware updates into the land of Linux. This was the source of some confusion in the past; the move to Moby sidesteps those concerns.

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Open Source Network Linux Engineering 60

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 24, 2018

Servers/Hardware. Looks like PKS, the joint Kubernetes effort from VMware and Pivotal, has gone GA (see this VMware blog post ) with initial support for vSphere and GCP. Courtesy of Corey Quinn, here’s an awesome AWS versus Azure comparison , comic book style. Nothing this time around, sorry!

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Vmware Load Balancer Network Open Source 60

Kitaboo

JUNE 15, 2021

As a comprehensive reference system for ePUB that promotes digital publications for the Open Web, ePUB.js In this blog, we explore more about ePUB.js is an open-source Javascript library that allows any web page to easily render ePUB documents on any device with a modern browser. and Readium.js What is ePUB.js?

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Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 6, 2012

First up is Brent Salisbury’s how to build an SDN lab without needing OpenFlow hardware. His earlier post on getting started with OpenFlow and Open vSwitch tutorial lab is also quite good. Not unsurprisingly, one of the key advantages of STT that’s highlighted is its improved performance due to TSO support in NIC hardware.

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Vmware Virtualization Storage Hardware 109

Scott Lowe

JUNE 11, 2014

Bob McCouch has a post over at Network Computing (where I’ve recently started blogging as well—see my first post ) discussing his view on how software-defined networking (SDN) will trickle down to small and mid-sized businesses. Servers/Hardware. More details are available in the Puppet Labs blog post.

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