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Weekly Update 6-17-2019: All About Ansible

Linux Academy

Ansible uses YAML to describe your automation jobs, which is easy to learn in comparison to other languages because it looks very similar to plain English. There’s even more to Ansible that we couldn’t possibly cover in this blog, such as Ansible playbooks, or even how to install and deploy Ansible. Because of how it is presented.

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Scott Lowe

Viktor van den Berg writes on deploying NSX load balancers with vRA. 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.

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Technology Short Take #78

Scott Lowe

The Pivotal Engineering blog has an article that shows how to use BOSH with the vSphere CPI to automate adding servers to an NSX load balancing pool. Here’s another virtualization-focused article written in the context of an OpenStack environment, this time focusing on performance comparisons between Hyper-V and KVM.

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Fountainhead: HPQ & CSCO: Analysis of New Blade Environments

Fountainhead

However, in the software domain, each still relies on multiple individual products to accomplish tasks such as SW provisioning, HA/availability, VM management, load balancing, etc. A little comparison chart (at right) shows what an IT shop might have to do to accomplish a list of typical functions. Subscribe to this blog.

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Expanding the Cloud - Introducing AWS OpsWorks, a Powerful.

All Things Distributed

Next to these solutions you can of course manage your compute resources directly, for example using CloudWatch, AutoScaling and Elastic Load Balancing. For a comparison of the different Application Management services visit this overview page. For a hands-on overview of AWS OpsWork visit the AWS developer blog.

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Technology Short Take #27

Scott Lowe

If any enterprise Puppet experts want to give it a go, I’d be happy to publish a guest blog post for you with full details on how it’s done. This VMware blog post helps explain the link between Puppet and vFabric Application Director, and why organizations may want to use both. in the comparison, even though RHEV 3.1

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Fountainhead: An Ideal Datacenter-in-a-Box

Fountainhead

Thats to say it includes I/O virtualization, a converged network fabric (including virtual switches and load balancing - based on std. Could you, for comparison sake, also create the picture with the Dell PAN modules and their position ? I will post a blog tomorrow detailing what Egenera's approach has been.

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