Scott Lowe

AUGUST 6, 2021

Servers/Hardware. 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. Virtualization. Jeremy Cowan shows how to use Cluster API to provision an AWS EKS cluster.

Open Source 105

Open Source Load Balancer WAN Architecture 105

GeekWire

OCTOBER 26, 2021

A quantum hardware engineer works on one of the dilution refrigerators used at the AWS Center for Quantum Computing. “We’re in the building,” Painter, the AWS center’s head of quantum hardware, told GeekWire. ” Nadia Carlsten , head of product for the AWS center, said in a blog post. AWS Photo).

Web Services 140

Web Services Hardware Research Open Source 140

Galido

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Information Technology Blog - - Top Tech Websites 2019 - Information Technology Blog. Thus it is essential to always stay on top of news and information, whether it be by newsletter, following RSS feeds and blogs, tutorials or going back to school. Find the links to these blogs in the descriptions below.

Mobile 77

Mobile Data Center Security Virtualization 77

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 27, 2023

Servers/Hardware What do you think of the ThinkPhone ? You can get more details on Koyeb’s Pulumi provider in this blog post. It would seem that AWS is going to take on Docker Desktop with its Finch project; see this blog post for more details. Ah, the bygone sounds of yesteryear …what a blast from the past!

Programming 90

Programming Open Source Cloud Devops 90

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. Servers/Hardware. The big news in the hardware space recently was the article regarding the purported Chinese hardware supply chain attack. Virtualization.

Hardware 60

Hardware Open Source Vmware Linux 60

Scott Lowe

APRIL 15, 2022

My personal and professional life has kept me busy over the last couple of months, so things have been quiet here on the blog. Xavier Avrillier walks readers through using Antrea (a Kubernetes CNI built on top of Open vSwitch—a topic I’ve touched on a time or two) to provide on-premise load balancing in Kubernetes.

Linux 74

Linux Load Balancer IPv6 Licensing 74

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Michael Kashin has a good post on source IP address selection in Linux. Servers/Hardware I must admit that I always wanted to have a Sun workstation, and I’ve had an interest in SunOS/Solaris for years (check out this link if you don’t believe me). Here are some design considerations for Wi-Fi 6E (6GHz) networks.

Vmware 74

Vmware Network Hardware Cloud 74

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 6, 2021

Servers/Hardware. 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. Virtualization. Jeremy Cowan shows how to use Cluster API to provision an AWS EKS cluster.

Open Source 60

Open Source Load Balancer WAN Architecture 60

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 28, 2016

And while we are on the topic of Linux and open source in the networking industry…read this entertaining and informative article on the importance of (truly) open source libraries in networking. Servers/Hardware. The project itself is open source and hosted on GitHub. This blog post has more details.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Open Source Devops 60

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Components involved include the open source Kuma service mesh (in turn leveraging Envoy), anycast BGP, and mutual TLS (mTLS). Servers/Hardware. William Lam takes a look at some potentially interesting homelab hardware. Virtualization. Seriously.). Cloud Computing/Cloud Management.

Storage 79

Storage Hardware Policies Open Source 79

Scott Lowe

JULY 5, 2019

Servers/Hardware. Although I’ve by and large moved away from Apple hardware (I still have a MacBook Pro running macOS that sees very little use, and a Mac Pro running Fedora), I did see this article regarding a new keyboard for the MacBook Air and MacBook Pro. Virtualization. It provides the basics behind X.509v3

Storage 60

Storage Hardware Open Source Vmware 60

Scott Lowe

JUNE 18, 2021

The collection of links shared below covers a fairly wide range of topics, from old Sun hardware to working with serverless frameworks in the public cloud. I read a couple of Cilium-related blog posts recently that may be useful. Servers/Hardware. Virtualization. I hope that you find something useful here. Networking.

Vmware 60

Vmware Hardware Load Balancer Apple 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. Virtualization. Have I mentioned the ESXi Virtual Appliance ?

Vmware 60

Vmware Devops Storage Linux 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 11, 2016

In this post you’ll find a collection of links to articles discussing the major data center technologies—networking, hardware, security, cloud computing, applications, virtualization…you name it! (If Numan Siddique describes the native DHCP support available in OVN (Open Virtual Network). Servers/Hardware.

Vmware 60

Vmware Hardware Storage Linux 60

Galido

OCTOBER 18, 2018

Information Technology Blog - - Top 8 Highly Paid and in-demand Programming Languages in 2018 - Information Technology Blog. Since the launch of the.NET Core open source development platform in June 2016, it can be used on non-Windows machines. Kotlin is an open source language. Do you agree with this list?

Programming 81

Programming Operating Systems Open Source Applications 81

Scott Lowe

MAY 17, 2019

Servers/Hardware. The CNCF blog has a great article written by an Alibaba software engineer (Xingyu Chen) on some performance optimizations for etcd that have been contributed back to the open source community. These look interesting, but be aware that they are not licensed with an open source license.

Linux 60

Linux Dell Open Source Licensing 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 2, 2020

Servers/Hardware. 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. Chip Zoller makes the argument in favor of running Kubernetes in/on virtual machines. Virtualization. That’s cool. Good for the EFF.

Linux 60

Linux Windows Hardware Network 60

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 28, 2016

And while we are on the topic of Linux and open source in the networking industry…read this entertaining and informative article on the importance of (truly) open source libraries in networking. Servers/Hardware. The project itself is open source and hosted on GitHub. This blog post has more details.

Vmware 60

Vmware Open Source Linux Devops 60

Scott Lowe

APRIL 19, 2019

Servers/Hardware. Tim Hinrichs discusses securing the Kubernetes API with Open Policy Agent. This article discusses four open source secrets management tools. Tonis Tiigi has a write-up on experimenting with rootless Docker over on the Docker Engineering blog. Virtualization. configurations. Larry Smith Jr.

Open Source 60

Open Source Tools Policies Cloud 60

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.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Network Open Source 60

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 19, 2018

Servers/Hardware. Via Maish Saidel-Keesing, I saw this post about 10 open source Kubernetes tools for highly effective SRE and Ops teams. Mark Peek talks about Dispatch , the open source serverless framework VMware recently released. Virtualization. Nothing this time around. release of Kubernetes.

Vmware 60

Vmware Open Source Linux Cloud 60

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 6, 2019

In perusing some of Brian’s content, I see lots of stuff at the intersection of networking and virtualization. The one caveat to his approach that may be worth mentioning is that some policies (a PodSecurityPolicy or the use of Open Policy Agent) may prevent the user from launching a Pod connected to the host’s network namespace.

Vmware 60

Vmware Network Linux Hardware 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. Virtualization. Have I mentioned the ESXi Virtual Appliance ?

Devops 60

Devops Vmware Storage Open Source 60

Scott Lowe

APRIL 22, 2014

The vendors may vary in their approach to providing this automation and orchestration—some may prefer to do it in software (VMware would be one of these, along with other software companies like Microsoft and Red Hat), while others want to do it in hardware. Thinking About Open Source. Similar Posts: Xen Trademark Policy.

Policies 60

Policies Open Source Vmware Data Center 60

Galido

MAY 10, 2016

Virtual Reality and Immersive Gaming. With improved hardware capabilities, 3D technologies and virtual reality is becoming more and more popular in gaming. With improved hardware capabilities, 3D technologies and virtual reality is becoming more and more popular in gaming.

Trends 60

Trends 3D Open Source Virtualization 60

Scott Lowe

MAY 3, 2019

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. Servers/Hardware. Virtualization. Who says you can’t please everyone all the time? Networking.

Vmware 60

Vmware Open Source Intel Applications 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 2, 2017

I was sure I had mentioned Skydive before, but apparently not (a grep of all my blog posts found nothing), so let me rectify that first. Skydive is (in the project’s own words) an “open source real-time network topology and protocols analyzer.” Servers/Hardware. Virtualization. Networking. What’s that? See here.).

Linux 60

Linux Devops Open Source Virtualization 60

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

Servers/Hardware. While all the attention is “up the stack,” there are still some occasions when you need to worry about the details in the hardware. VMware, Vagrant, and Docker together is the subject of this blog post by Fabio Rapposelli. Virtualization. “Junk-box infrastructure,” eh?

Vmware 65

Vmware Linux Storage Virtualization 65

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 14, 2017

Servers/Hardware. I’ll keep an eye open for links to include next time around. The popular open source container registry project, Harbor , has released a new version (version 1.2). This version introduces vulnerability scanning (leveraging the Clair project ), and Henry Zhang has a blog post with more details.

Load Balancer 60

Load Balancer Vmware Hardware Open Source 60

Scott Lowe

MAY 25, 2017

Servers/Hardware. Check out this blog on work done to bring firmware updates into the land of Linux. After a little time and seeing how things seem to be progressing, I realize that it creates a clear separation between the open source project formerly known as Docker (now Moby) and Docker CE/EE (the products from Docker Inc.).

Linux 60

Linux Open Source Network Vmware 60

Scott Lowe

MAY 25, 2017

Servers/Hardware. Check out this blog on work done to bring firmware updates into the land of Linux. After a little time and seeing how things seem to be progressing, I realize that it creates a clear separation between the open source project formerly known as Docker (now Moby) and Docker CE/EE (the products from Docker Inc.).

Linux 60

Linux Open Source Network Vmware 60

Linux Academy

APRIL 30, 2019

Stay tuned to the Linux Academy blog for further details. You learn the basic knowledge of computer hardware, gain an understanding of open-source applications in the workplace, and learn to navigate systems on a Linux desktop, as well as rudimentary commands to navigate the Linux command line. Linux Study Group in May.

Linux 113

Linux Course Big Data Devops 113

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 17, 2020

Servers/Hardware. Now I really want to see hardware security key support in the desktop and mobile apps! Oh, and you might also enjoy Nicolas Fränkel’s post outlining his blogging stack and publishing process. Virtualization. Time to get patching, folks! Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Read more details here.

Load Balancer 60

Load Balancer Vmware Windows Cloud 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 23, 2017

Servers/Hardware. Acra is open source and available via GitHub. Here’s a post outlining some of VMware’s more prominent open source projects in the “cloud-native” space. Virtualization. VMware recently announced the open sourcing of some software development kits (SDKs) for the new REST APIs in vSphere 6.5.

Open Source 60

Open Source Storage Vmware Network 60

Galido

JULY 20, 2018

Information Technology Blog - - iPhone Vs Android — A Comparative Study 2018 - Information Technology Blog. This could be true as Apple software only needs to work on Apple hardware, where Android software needs to work on multiple varieties of devices. Aesthetics, Hardware and Price. Which is known for ease of use?

Study 66

Study Apple Google Operating Systems 66

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

Only a year late, I found this article about Cisco IOS XRv (as in “virtual”). Servers/Hardware. Colin Lynch gives a “first look” at the Cisco UCS Generation 3 hardware , which may be of interest if you’re a UCS customer or looking at purchasing UCS. CoreOS also has a “getting started” blog post that may help.

Vmware 60

Vmware Network Operating Systems Virtualization 60

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 24, 2018

VPCs, or Virtual Private Clouds, are Amazon’s software-defined networking mechanism for workloads running on AWS.). 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. Virtualization.

Vmware 60

Vmware Load Balancer Network Open Source 60