Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

In my list of planned 2017 projects , I mentioned that one thing I’d like to do this year is launch an open source book project. licensed book project aimed at providing “how to” recipes for Open vSwitch (OVS). Portions of the book are already available , with more content being added soon (more on that in a moment).

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Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Networking. Arthur Chiao cracks open kube-proxy , a key part of Kubernetes networking, to expose the internals, and along the way exposes readers to a few different technologies. This is a good read if you’re trying to better understand some aspects of Kubernetes networking. Now, on to the content! Servers/Hardware.

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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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Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

Reinforce base Linux knowledge. I’ll be focusing on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and RHEL variants, since that seems to be what’s most commonly found in enterprise deployments today. As with my base Linux knowledge, my primary goal here is to be able to do most anything that I need to do with Puppet.

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Linux Data Center Network Open Source 91

Scott Lowe

MAY 29, 2020

Let’s see what I’ve managed to collect for you this time around… Networking. Ivan Pepelnjak provides a 101-level overview of AWS networking. Andrew Sy Kim tackles explaining a (somewhat) obscure part of Kubernetes networking: the externalTrafficPolicy setting. Read his write-up here. Servers/Hardware.

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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!

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Scott Lowe

JANUARY 30, 2017

Without further ado, here’s the list for 2017: Finish the network automation book. One way or another, the network automation book I’m writing with Jason Edelman and Matt Oswalt is getting finished in 2017. Launch an open source book project. This is something I’ve been tossing around for a while now.

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Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 6, 2014

Networking. In the process, he muses about the value of configuration management tool chains such as Chef and Puppet in a world of “open switch” platforms such as Cumulus Linux. Speaking of Cumulus Linux…did you see the announcement that Dell has signed a reseller agreement with Cumulus Networks?

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 1, 2019

Networking. Daniel Dib has a great article on how network engineers need to evolve. The network isn’t going away, it’s just changing. I referenced part 1 of Ajay Chenampara’s series on the Ansible network-engine command parser back in Technology Short Take 102 (July of last year). Go check out part 2.

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Scott Lowe

JUNE 18, 2017

Networking. Sjors Robroek describes his nested NSX-T lab that also includes some virtualized network equipment (virtualized Arista switches). Here’s an interesting article on the role that virtualization is playing in the network functions virtualization (NFV) space now that ARM hardware is growing increasingly powerful.

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Windows Vmware Virtualization Linux 60

Scott Lowe

JUNE 18, 2017

Networking. Sjors Robroek describes his nested NSX-T lab that also includes some virtualized network equipment (virtualized Arista switches). Here’s an interesting article on the role that virtualization is playing in the network functions virtualization (NFV) space now that ARM hardware is growing increasingly powerful.

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Windows Vmware Virtualization Linux 60

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 7, 2016

His journey started in June 2014 as a result of the Microsoft announcement regarding support for Linux and Kubernetes on Azure—this really indicated a shift in the industry. Safari Books Online ( link ) a great resource, highly recommended. Safari Books Online. Ansible (not Chef, Puppet, or Salt). Cassandra and Neo4j.

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Devops Engineering Conference Operating Systems 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 16, 2017

This is my irregularly-published collection of links and articles from around the Internet related to the major data center technologies: networking, hardware, security, cloud computing, applications/OSes, storage, and virtualization. Networking. Jeffrey Kusters has a write-up on how to integrate AWS and vRealize Network Insight 3.4.

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Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

After all, I’ve written books and have been blogging for 9 years, so I should be able to add some value via documentation contributions. Using a Linux Environment. It wasn’t until just recently that I realized: why not just use a Linux VM? I felt that documentation might be a way to achieve that goal.

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Tools Linux Open Source Cloud 64

Scott Lowe

MARCH 2, 2017

Networking. Skydive is (in the project’s own words) an “open source real-time network topology and protocols analyzer.” Here’s a walkthrough to install Arch Linux on VirtualBox. Thinking of virtualizing Linux on Hyper-V? Then you may find this list of tips for Linux performance on Hyper-V to be useful.

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Linux Devops Open Source Virtualization 60

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 7, 2016

His journey started in June 2014 as a result of the Microsoft announcement regarding support for Linux and Kubernetes on Azure—this really indicated a shift in the industry. Safari Books Online ( link ) a great resource, highly recommended. Safari Books Online. Ansible (not Chef, Puppet, or Salt). Cassandra and Neo4j.

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Devops Engineering Conference Operating Systems 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 30, 2018

Networking. Matt Oswalt tackles the topic of unit testing (specifically with regard to network automation) with a post on unit testing JunOS with JSNAPy. Jérôme Petazzoni test drives AppSwitch , the “network stack from the future.” Flatcar Linux is a “friendly fork” of Container Linux (of CoreOS).

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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 Networking. Numan Siddique describes the native DHCP support available in OVN (Open Virtual Network). Virtualization. Version 2.0

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Vmware Hardware Storage Linux 60

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 9, 2016

Networking. That prompted Cody Bunch to write this article on setting up a topology with BGP on Linux using the topology converter , which I’m now mentioning in this Technology Short Take. PowerShell on Cumulus Linux on a network switch? Jason Edelman recently announced self-service and on-demand network infrastructure.

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Cloud Musings

OCTOBER 9, 2018

With over 1300 modules, Ansible simplifies several aspects of IT infrastructure, including web, database, network, cloud, cluster, monitoring, and storage. This sponsored post is part of a series designed to highlight recently published Packt books about leading technologies and software applications.

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Tools Applications Network Firewall 94

Scott Lowe

APRIL 19, 2019

Networking. Part 2 of Stark and Wayne’s container-to-container networking for Cloud Foundry and Kubernetes dig deep into CNI workings. Milind Gunjan shares some tips for troubleshooting Linux bridged networking on a KVM host. configurations. Career/Soft Skills.

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Open Source Tools Policies Cloud 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

I was able to hit two technical sessions yesterday and liveblogged both of them: Virtualizing the Network to Enable a Software-Defined Infrastructure. The first one, on virtualizing the network, did highlight an important development regarding hardware offloads for Geneve, the next-generation network overlay encapsulation protocol.

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Intel Hardware Linux Virtualization 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 16, 2017

Networking. Sjors Robroek describes his nested NSX-T lab that also includes some virtualized network equipment (virtualized Arista switches). Here’s an interesting article on the role that virtualization is playing in the network functions virtualization (NFV) space now that ARM hardware is growing increasingly powerful.

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Windows Virtualization Devops Vmware 60

GeekWire

OCTOBER 3, 2020

Computer types: Mac, PC, Linux. Your preferred social network? Book on your nightstand (or e-reader)? We caught up with Grandison for this Working Geek, a regular GeekWire feature. Continue reading for his answers to our questionnaire. Current location: Seattle. Mobile devices: Android, iPhone. Describe your workspace.

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Fractional CTO CTO Government Meeting 109

Scott Lowe

MAY 11, 2018

Networking. David Gee makes the connection between coffee and network automation. Matt Oswalt, one of the co-authors of our recently-released network automation book from O’Reilly, recently tackled the topic of running Kubernetes with Tungsten Fabric (formerly known as OpenContrail). No, really. Servers/Hardware.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 22, 2021

In this episode of The Hacker Mind , Beau Woods and Paulino Calderon discuss their book, Practical IoT Hacking, and talk about IoT threat models, the technologies being used today, and what tools and knowledge you need to get started successfully hacking IoT devices. It's a comprehensive book, and it's an important topic.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 22, 2021

In this episode of The Hacker Mind , Beau Woods and Paulino Calderon discuss their book, Practical IoT Hacking, and talk about IoT threat models, the technologies being used today, and what tools and knowledge you need to get started successfully hacking IoT devices. It's a comprehensive book, and it's an important topic.

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Internet Research Security Tools 52

ForAllSecure

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

In this episode, though, I’m going to focus on the much more common digital pentesters side, you know, the people who are hired to break into the digital organization, the networks, the software -- and this they can do pretty much anywhere, often without much travel. available wherever books are sold. I mean really?

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Network Applications Security Operating Systems 52

ForAllSecure

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

In this episode, though, I’m going to focus on the much more common digital pentesters side, you know, the people who are hired to break into the digital organization, the networks, the software -- and this they can do pretty much anywhere, often without much travel. available wherever books are sold. I mean really?

Network 52

Network Applications Security Operating Systems 52

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 17, 2015

Networking. Mustafa Akin has an article on Docker’s new overlay networking functionality. If you’d like to play around with Cumulus Linux but don’t have a compatible hardware switch, Cumulus VX is the answer. Here’s a post that claims to translate OVS and OpenStack Neutron to the network engineer’s language.

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Vmware Linux Architecture Hardware 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 27, 2017

In my list of proposed 2017 projects , I mentioned that I wanted to launch an open source book project. In late February, I launched The Open vSwitch Cookbook , an unofficial—as in not formally affiliated with the Open vSwitch (OVS) project—effort to gather together OVS “recipes” into an open source book.

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Galido

JUNE 27, 2019

Believe it or not but it only takes a few minutes and a bit of tinkering with your device to turn it into an on-demand controller for your computer (Windows, Mac, or Linux). Add recipe apps, note-taking apps, and recipe e-books to the home screen to have them all in one place. Wireless Trackpad & Controller For Your Computer.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 5, 2020

Jacqueline Nolis hasn’t just made a career out of working in data science, she wrote the book on making a career in data science. And the more complex the math they use on the data, like neural networks, the more accurate the results. Mac, Windows or Linux? Jacqueline Nolis. Photo courtesy of Jacqueline Nolis).

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Data How To Linux Transportation 137

Network World

MAY 17, 2024

It delivered a version of Linux – Red Hat Enterprise Linux AI – optimized for AI , InstructLab for fine tuning models, and Podman AI Lab for building and testing AI-powered applications. And Google’s new Gemini model can handle 1 million tokens, enough for several Harry Potter books at once. Linux, Network Management Software

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Kitaboo

MAY 6, 2024

Unlike physical textbooks and learning-based books, digital books come with several benefits such as accessibility, flexibility, cost-effectiveness, and interactivity. FBReader FBReader or Favorite Book Reader, is a free-to-use, open-source eBook reader. Table of Contents I. What are eBook Apps For Education?

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ForAllSecure

DECEMBER 2, 2021

It was for UNIX systems and it was created by Dan Farmer and Wheat-say Vene-ma, who then co-authored a book in 2005 called Forensic Discovery. Vamosi: So you’re CISO at a major corporation and all of sudden there’s been a ransomware attack in your network, and it’s spreading throughout your infrastructure.

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Social, Agile and Transformation

JULY 14, 2009

I cover topics for Technologists from CIOs to Developers - agile development, agile portfolio management, leadership, business intelligence, big data, startups, social networking, SaaS, content management, media, enterprise 2.0 Business minded, Agile CIO with strong Big Data, Business Intelligence, Search, and Social Networking background.

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