Scott Lowe

APRIL 7, 2023

Networking Jeff McLaughlin discusses what he calls the “war on expertise.” Operating Systems/Applications In Technology Short Take 166 , I mentioned Nick Schmidt’s article on D2. Howard Oakley has uncovered some changes to the macOS Gatekeeper/app notarization process; see more details in this blog post.

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Applications Comparison Cloud Operating Systems 97

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 12, 2022

Networking. Also on the Sysdig blog, Miguel Hernández recaps his KubeCon EU 2022 talk on how attackers used an exposed Prometheus server to exploit Kubernetes clusters. Eduardo Minguez has an article on the Sysdig blog on how to apply security at the source using GitOps. Operating Systems/Applications. Programming.

Linux 90

Linux Storage Virtualization Hardware 90

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 8, 2021

There’s some networking stuff, a few security links, and even a hardware-related article. Networking. Russ White shares Russ' rules for network design. Operating Systems/Applications. Cloudflare recently introduced its own object storage offering, announced in this blog post. Servers/Hardware.

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IPv6 Storage Hardware Vmware 60

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 27, 2023

I’ve got another collection of links to articles on networking, security, cloud, programming, and career development—hopefully you find something useful! Networking William Morgan’s 2022 service mesh recap captures some of the significant events in service mesh in 2022, although through a Linkerd-colored lens.

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Programming Open Source Cloud Devops 90

Scott Lowe

APRIL 29, 2022

My link of links and articles from around the Internet is a bit light on networking and virtualization this time around, but heftier in the security, cloud, and OS/application sections. Networking. release of netsim-tools in this blog post. Operating Systems/Applications. should keep blogging.

Linux 74

Linux Storage Programming Applications 74

Scott Lowe

MARCH 12, 2021

I didn’t do so well on storage links; apologies to my storage-focused friends! Networking. Isovalent, the folks behind Cilium, recently unveiled the Network Policy Editor, a graphical way of editing Kubernetes Network Policies. The Google Project Zero blog takes a look at iMessage in iOS 14.

IPv6 60

IPv6 Network Storage Policies 60

Scott Lowe

MAY 7, 2021

In this Technology Short Take, I’ve gathered some links for you covering topics like Azure and AWS networking, moving from macOS to Linux (and back again), and more. Networking. ” Specifically, this post talks about Kubernetes networking. Operating Systems/Applications. Programming.

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Linux Hardware Network Cloud 60

Scott Lowe

APRIL 6, 2017

Networking. Matt Oswalt has a great post on the need for networking professionals to learn basic scripting skills—something he (rightfully) distinguishes from programming as a full-time occupation. Further, he follows that up with a post on how automation is more than just configuration management ; it’s about network services.

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Vmware Linux Storage Network 60

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 18, 2012

Do not expect too many blog posts or twitter updates. It was not until later in the year that I started to recording the readings here on the blog, so I hope this is indeed the complete list. Jul - 13 Hints for Computer Systems Design Proceedings of the Ninth ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles, pp.

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Operating Systems Conference Survey System 144

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 31, 2021

Networking. Ivan Pepelnjak has a post on running network automation tools in a container. Tom Hollingsworth likens networking disaggregation to “cutting the cord” and switching away from cable. There’s also some great information in this Google Project Zero blog post. Operating Systems/Applications.

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Open Source Virtualization Applications Security 94

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 21, 2020

I’ve had this blog post sitting in my Drafts folder waiting to be published for almost a month, and I kept forgetting to actually make it live. Networking. gNMI, by the way, stands for gRPC Network Management Interface (more information on gNMI can be found here ). Operating Systems/Applications.

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Handbook Linux Storage Windows 60

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

Networking. I really enjoyed David Gee’s series on the network automation engineer persona ( part 1 , part 2 , part 3 , and part 4 ). David really unpacks the changes that are happening in the networking space and describes the key skills the “next-generation network engineer” will have. Good stuff!

Vmware 60

Vmware Storage Engineering Network 60

Galido

AUGUST 27, 2019

Information Technology Blog - - How to Transfer Large Scale Data. Information Technology Blog. As we all know, at the moment safe data exchange with large amount of information between different devices with various operative systems is not easy for every user. It will “load” files via virtual cloud storage.

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How To Data Storage Operating Systems 77

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

Networking. The rise of the disaggregated network operating system (NOS) marches on: this time, it’s Big Switch Networks announcing expanded hardware support in Open Network Linux (ONL) , upon which its own NOS is based. Operating Systems/Applications. Servers/Hardware. Check this out.

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Vmware Linux Storage Load Balancer 60

Scott Lowe

JUNE 2, 2016

Networking. More information on the script is in his blog post. Russ White tackles the issue of networking engineers needing to learn to code. Jason Messer has an article describing how networking works with Windows containers. Drew Conry-Murray shines a light on Intel’s network ambitions. Is it necessary?

Vmware 60

Vmware Virtualization Linux Windows 60

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

Networking. Matt Oswalt tackles the idea of “intent-driven” or “intent-based” networking—all the rage right now—and outlines how something like this must interact with domains outside of networking in order to be effective. Operating Systems/Applications. Servers/Hardware.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Network Storage 60

Linux Academy

JANUARY 27, 2019

Using Ansible for system automation provides a number of powerful features, one being Ansible facts. In this blog, we’ll go over Ansible facts and how you can use a few parameters with the ansible command to explore which facts are available to Ansible during an execution. What are Ansible Facts Anyway? How Do We Use Facts?

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System Linux Operating Systems Course 60

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

Networking. see below in the “Operating Systems/Applications” section), Metaswitch has announced a Container Networking Interface (CNI) plugin for Project Calico. First up, Matt goes on a bit of a rant regarding SDN and network automation. Both these articles came out of Network Field Day 11 , by the way.).

Vmware 60

Vmware Network Operating Systems Virtualization 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. Networking. Want to understand kube-proxy , a key part of Kubernetes networking, a bit better? More information is available in this Helm blog post. Operating Systems/Applications.

Linux 74

Linux Load Balancer IPv6 Licensing 74

Galido

APRIL 11, 2017

The result allows administrators or users to run multiple operating systems and allocate shared resources on one computer, laptop or server simultaneously. There is hosted virtualization , where the virtualization software is installed on top of and sits on an operating system. Prepare Allocation of Resources.

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Virtualization Backup Vmware Operating Systems 60

Scott Lowe

MAY 4, 2017

Networking. There’s lots of talk about applying test-driven development (TDD) principles in various automation contexts, but I like the fact that Ajay Chenampara provides some practical examples in his blog post on applying TDD in network automation using Ansible. Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization.

Vmware 60

Vmware Storage Network Examples 60

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Networking. Koyeb describes , at a high level, the global networking stack for their serverless platform. Anders Eknert shows how to do—or at least provides a framework on getting started with—dynamic policy composition with Open Policy Agent (OPA) in this blog post from April 2021. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management.

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Storage Hardware Policies Open Source 79

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 2, 2019

I’ve got a little bit of something for most everyone, except for the storage nerds (I’m leaving that to my friend J Metz this time around). Networking. Northbound Networks provides some information on the P4 programming language. Operating Systems/Applications. Servers/Hardware. Virtualization.

Storage 60

Storage Applications Programming Firewall 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 6, 2021

Networking. Back in April of this year, Patrick Ogenstad announced Netrasp , a Go package for writing network automation tooling in Go. I saw this blog post about Curiefense , an open source Envoy extension to add WAF (web application firewall) functionality to Envoy. Operating Systems/Applications.

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Open Source Load Balancer WAN Architecture 105

Scott Lowe

JUNE 24, 2022

Networking. Read more about it on the Isovalent blog. Operating Systems/Applications. Although it isn’t technically specific to storage, there are significant storage themes in this article on what might happen if you lock yourself out of your digital life. Check out this write-up. Think again.

Vmware 74

Vmware Linux Storage Virtualization 74

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

Networking. Ivan Pepelnjak has a great article that tries to get to the kernel of truth in the middle of the intent-based networking hype. The company is VirTool Networks (catchy, eh?), Joep Piscaer discusses his use of ProtonVPN as an always-on VPN for his home network. Operating Systems/Applications.

Storage 60

Storage Vmware Load Balancer Network 60

Scott Lowe

JULY 22, 2013

Networking. The networking “old guard” likes to talk about how x86 servers and virtualization create network bottlenecks due to performance concerns, but as Ivan points out in this post , it’s rapidly becoming—or has already become—a non-issue. Here’s one idea. Servers/Hardware.

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Vmware Virtualization Network Linux 106

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 5, 2012

Networking. Some folks from Nicira (now part of VMware) recently published a blog post discussing the OVSDB IETF draft (see here ). I think this three-part series on new network models for cloud computing ( part 1 , part 2 , and part 3 ), while almost a year old, is quite good. Operating Systems/Applications.

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Storage Vmware Linux Virtualization 92

Scott Lowe

JUNE 21, 2019

Here’s a fresh new collection of links and articles from the around the web to propel myself back into blogging. Networking. Mircea Ulinic shows readers how to use salt-sproxy to take a different approach to network automation using Salt. Operating Systems/Applications. I hope you find something useful here!

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Network Load Balancer Storage Applications 60

Galido

JULY 20, 2018

Information Technology Blog - - iPhone Vs Android — A Comparative Study 2018 - Information Technology Blog. Apple has shown great skill in designing an easy-to-use mobile operating system, while Android has been increasingly developing their product to be more intuitive and give you more control over it’s OS and applications.

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Study Apple Google Operating Systems 66

Scott Lowe

JULY 5, 2019

Networking. This blog post outlines some of the changes/new features in kubeadm with the Kubernetes 1.15 Operating Systems/Applications. John Griffith of Red Hat provides more details in this blog post on the Kubernetes web site. Nevertheless, I hope that I managed to capture something you find useful or helpful.

Storage 60

Storage Hardware Open Source Vmware 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 23, 2017

Networking. Biruk Mekonnen has an introductory article on using Netmiko for network automation. 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. Operating Systems/Applications.

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Open Source Storage Vmware Network 60

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

Networking. Ansible has made some good progress in supporting network automation in the latest release (2.2), according to this blog post. Jeremy Stretch mulls over the (perceived) problem of getting traffic into and out of overlay networks. I’m admittedly a Cumulus Networks fan.) Operating Systems/Applications.

Linux 60

Linux Vmware Storage Network 60

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 14, 2016

Networking. NAPALM (Network Automation and Programmability Layer with Multivendor support) looks like a really cool tool. Gabriele (the author of that post) also has a nice article on some resources to get you started with network automation. Operating Systems/Applications.

Vmware 60

Vmware Devops Storage Linux 60

Scott Lowe

APRIL 24, 2020

Networking. This isn’t necessarily networking-related, but it does pertain to a very well-known content creator who specializes in networking. Andreas Wittig takes a look at some advanced AWS networking pitfalls to avoid. Operating Systems/Applications. ‘Nuff said.

Storage 60

Storage Tools Architecture Network 60

Scott Lowe

JULY 21, 2016

Networking. Netmiko, if you haven’t heard, is a fantastic Python library that’s really useful when writing Python-based network automation scripts. Here’s a “cheat sheet” for working with Cumulus Linux ; it may prove useful for networking professionals who don’t (yet) have a lot of familiarity with Linux. (If

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Storage Hardware 60

Scott Lowe

JUNE 8, 2018

Networking. If you’re a networking pro and didn’t understand most of that last sentence, I’d content that you’ve got some learning to do. If you’re a networking pro and didn’t understand most of that last sentence, I’d content that you’ve got some learning to do. Servers/Hardware.

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Load Balancer Vmware Storage Intel 60