Linux Academy

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Now, our Playground Cloud Sandboxes environments are out of beta and available for all of our individual and enterprise accounts! ” Approving AWS (and Azure, Google Cloud, or Linux) environments for your employees can pose a few problems: Administrative overhead of managing individual environments.

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Linux Training Cloud Firewall 60

Linux Academy

MARCH 28, 2019

As organizations increase their use of Kubernetes in public and Hybrid cloud architectures, it is important not to let a maiden voyage end like a Titanic catastrophe. Currently when deploying in hybrid cloud settings it is important to have an installer capable of launching clusters on both on-premises and off-premises infrastructure.

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Policies Linux Security Virtualization 68

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

Vivek Gite over at nixCraft explains how to use ufw (Uncomplicated Firewall) on Ubuntu to limit SSH connections. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Flatpak is a (relatively) new application packaging/sandboxing mechanism for Linux applications. This looks really promising, IMHO—I’m excited to see it continue to develop.

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Linux Network Virtualization IPv6 60

CTOvision

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

The problem is that threat actors are able to get through the castle gates (firewalls) and once in, are able to evade the castle guards (IPS). Cisco EPGs can be a physical server, a virtual machine, a Linux container, or even a mainframe. Pitfall #4 : It cannot scale to support multi-cloud environments.

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Network Security Vmware Virtualization 150

Scott Lowe

MARCH 17, 2016

At DevOps Networking Forum 2016, I had the opportunity to share a presentation on some Linux networking options. At the recent OCP Summit, Microsoft introduced Software for Open Networking in the Cloud (SONiC). Russell Pope at Kovarus recently wrote about using security groups to manage the VMware NSX distributed firewall.

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Vmware Linux Network Open Source 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 8, 2015

Upon hearing the news that Red Hat had released the Atomic Host variant of Red Hat Enterprise Linux , I decided that it would be a good idea for me to take a look at the CentOS flavor of the Atomic Host variant. I’ve spent most of my time with Ubuntu (for general purpose Linux use cases) and CoreOS (for container-optimized use cases).

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Linux Cloud Firewall Vmware 60

Scott Lowe

JUNE 18, 2017

Anthony Burke gives a little bit of a sneak peek at some functionality from the upcoming v3 release of PowerNSX: searching NSX Distributed Firewall (DFW) rules. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Here’s a good post on Kubernetes Ingress by Jay Gorrell. Timothy Perrett has an article on Envoy with Nomad and Consul. Virtualization.

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Windows Vmware Virtualization Linux 60

Scott Lowe

JUNE 18, 2017

Anthony Burke gives a little bit of a sneak peek at some functionality from the upcoming v3 release of PowerNSX: searching NSX Distributed Firewall (DFW) rules. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Here’s a good post on Kubernetes Ingress by Jay Gorrell. Timothy Perrett has an article on Envoy with Nomad and Consul. Virtualization.

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Windows Vmware Virtualization Linux 60

Cloud Musings

OCTOBER 9, 2018

And CFEngine, which provide automation for infrastructure, cloud, compliance and security management, integration for deployment and continuous deployment (CI / CD). With over 1300 modules, Ansible simplifies several aspects of IT infrastructure, including web, database, network, cloud, cluster, monitoring, and storage.

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Tools Applications Network Firewall 94

Scott Lowe

MARCH 2, 2017

Tony Sangha took PowerNSX (a set of PowerShell cmdlets for interacting with NSX) and created a tool to help document the NSX Distributed Firewall configuration. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Here’s a walkthrough to install Arch Linux on VirtualBox. Thinking of virtualizing Linux on Hyper-V? What’s that?

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Linux Devops Open Source Virtualization 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 10, 2015

I highly recommend you read the entire post, but in short the five skills Matt recommends are software skills (which includes configuration management and software development tools like Git ), Linux, deep protocol knowledge, hypervisor and container networking, and IPv6. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. What does this mean?

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Vmware Linux Hardware Software Development 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 Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. This is a slightly older article by Casey West on the topic of “cloud-native.”

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Vmware Hardware Storage Linux 60

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 27, 2017

specifically, the new container network firewall functionality. When I was using Fedora, I needed some useful information on firewall-cmd , and found this article to be helpful. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. The NIST and DHS have teamed up on some efforts to secure BGP; more information is available in this article.

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Firewall Virtualization Network Storage 60

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

It was good to read this post on Cumulus Linux first impressions by Jeremy Stretch. I’m a fan of Cumulus, but I’m admittedly a Linux guy (see here ) so you might say I’m a bit biased. Jeremy is a “hard-core” networking professional, and so hearing his feedback on Cumulus Linux was, in my opinion, useful.

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Vmware Linux Storage Virtualization 69

CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 4, 2024

Furthermore, if the operating system pattern is Linux Oracle Enterprise, the architect would use that pattern first in its design unless technical constraints made the consumption of this pattern suboptimal to accomplish the solution’s goal.

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Financial Architecture Resources Security 92

Dataconomy

APRIL 13, 2023

This feature is particularly useful in environments where only HTTP traffic is allowed, such as in a web proxy or firewall. The VNC protocol is designed to be platform-independent, meaning that it can be used to access and control computers running on any operating system, including Windows, macOS, Linux, and others.

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Virtualization Network Linux Windows 36

Scott Lowe

JUNE 29, 2016

I was also recently introduced to a company called HexaTier (formerly GreenSQL), which provides a database security product supporting both on-premises deployments as well as cloud-based deployments, and supports public cloud database-as-a-service (DBaaS) offerings. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Virtualization.

Linux 60

Linux Network Hardware Vmware 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 16, 2017

Anthony Burke gives a little bit of a sneak peek at some functionality from the upcoming v3 release of PowerNSX: searching NSX Distributed Firewall (DFW) rules. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Here’s a good post on Kubernetes Ingress by Jay Gorrell. Timothy Perrett has an article on Envoy with Nomad and Consul.

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Windows Virtualization Devops Vmware 60

Galido

JUNE 28, 2018

SSH: For Linux / Unix and MacOS systems. Detailed reports. What to Monitor. PRTG monitors all types of systems, devices and applications in your IT infrastructure: SNMP: Ready to use and with customization options. Windows and WMI performance counters.

Network 60

Network LAN VOIP Licensing 60

Scott Lowe

APRIL 24, 2015

This is kind of cool, and (in my humble opinion) a sign of changing times: Juniper has Vagrant boxes as well as a Vagrant plugin for working with vSRX (virtual firewall) VMs (via this article from Matt Oswalt). Here are some general guidelines for configuring syslog forwarding on a Cisco ASA firewall. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management.

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Vmware Storage Firewall Network 60

Scott Lowe

MAY 12, 2016

In the event you’re interested in an idea of how much latency the use of in-kernel hypervisor firewalling (such as that offered by VMware NSX) adds, have a look at this article by Sean Howard. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Maybe next time? Michael Wittig has an article on using AWS IAM to manage EC2 SSH keys.

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Vmware Windows Network Agile 60

CTOvision

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

Evaluating Commercial Cloud Services for Government – A Progress Report. Eva Andreasson has been working with JVMs, SOA, Cloud, and infrastructure software for 15+ years. Steve Orrin is Chief Technologist for Intel Corp¹s Federal Division and is responsible for Cyber Security and Cloud Strategy, Architecture and Engagements.

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CTOvision

JANUARY 18, 2015

Evaluating Commercial Cloud Services for Government – A Progress Report. Eva Andreasson has been working with JVMs, SOA, Cloud, and infrastructure software for 15+ years. Steve Orrin is Chief Technologist for Intel Corp¹s Federal Division and is responsible for Cyber Security and Cloud Strategy, Architecture and Engagements.

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Program Management Fractional CTO CTO Programming 150

Dataconomy

OCTOBER 17, 2023

The organization’s security team then works to implement these recommendations, which may involve patching software, configuring firewalls, or implementing additional security controls. Familiarize yourself with operating systems Get comfortable with different operating systems, including Windows, macOS, and Linux.

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Network Security Applications System 45

Fountainhead

MAY 5, 2009

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. In the past its been called "utility computing" but in the era of cloud computing, this seems to be the term in use. Cloud Computing. (55). New AWS enable "Real" Elastic Clouds. Profiling questions nobody's asking re: cloud appl.

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Data Center Virtualization Disaster Recovery Storage 100

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

A discussion of “statefulness” brought me again to Ivan’s post on the spectrum of firewall statefulness. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Prasenjit Sarkar, who works in VMware R&D, and runs the Stretch Cloud site , has a write-up on using Data Center Extension (DCE) to VMware vCloud Hybrid Service (vCHS).

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Vmware Data Center Storage Disaster Recovery 60

Scott Lowe

APRIL 2, 2021

This Technology Short Take is a bit heavy on cloud, OS, and programming topics, but there should be enough other interesting links to be useful to plenty of folks. (At Linux malware is getting more sophisticated. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Need to list assets across multiple cloud providers? Networking.

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Vmware Firewall Storage Comparison 60

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 23, 2020

Still, there’s a decent collection of networking, cloud computing, and virtualization articles as well as a smattering of other topics for you to peruse. ” Ivan Pepelnjak attempts to answer the question, “How much do I need to know about Linux networking?” Cloud Computing/Cloud Management.

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Open Source Vmware Disaster Recovery Linux 60

ForAllSecure

MARCH 30, 2022

You might start out with an innocent question, like what if someone misconfigured their cloud configuration could it lead to holding the keys to Microsoft’s Azure Surface Fabric framework? Vamosi: Cloud security is relatively new and as such it probably hasn’t gotten as much attention as it deserves. Like chasing a rabbit.

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Firewall Virtualization Authentication Linux 52

SecureWorld News

MARCH 13, 2024

My work spanned from Linux and Windows to handling cables; essentially, anything the Navy required, whether below or above water, I was involved. My first week concluded with a hands-on experience assisting in a firewall upgrade, and by the following Tuesday, I was tasked with managing customer upgrades independently.

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Firewall Sports Architecture Conference 71

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 10, 2015

We all know that security is more than just a host-based firewall, but a host-based firewall can be part of an overall security strategy. This article provides a good introductory overview of Linux iptables commands for configuring host-based firewall rules on your Linux systems. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management.

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Windows Firewall Linux Architecture 60

Scott Lowe

JUNE 4, 2013

This post by Ranga Maddipudi shows you how to use App Firewall in conjunction with VXLAN logical networks. Another post by Tom Nolle explores the relationship—complicated at times—between SDN, NFV, and the cloud. App Firewall? Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Venky explains it in this post.

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HP Virtualization Hardware Network 106

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

The use of VMware NSX for microsegmentation is a really popular use case, and so the topic of scripting distributed firewall (DFW) rules often comes up. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. In any case, have a look at this article by Julio Villareal Pelegrino on architecting an OpenStack cloud. No pun intended!)

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Vmware Linux Intel Storage 60

Linux Academy

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

This November at Linux Academy, we have loads of new content coming your way! To all of our learners who may know someone who wants to learn more about the cloud or Linux, but they have been on the fence about signing up for a free community edition account, then tell them that right now is a great time for them to sign up!

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Linux Systems Administration Cloud Google 16

Galido

AUGUST 1, 2016

All In One WP Security & Firewall. Firewall functionality: basic, intermediate and advanced protection. Vobla is a cloud backup service for Linux machines. This backs up everything, and uses cloud space efficiently, too! This means that you’re vulnerable to bruteforce attempts. SPAM protection.

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Tools Security Backup Firewall 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 25, 2015

In this post, I’ve gathered links to posts about networking, virtualization, Docker, containers, Linux, configuration management, and all kinds of other cool stuff. Roie Ben Haim, who works in professional services at VMware, has a deep dive on the NSX distributed firewall (DFW). Cloud Computing/Cloud Management.

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Vmware Linux Virtualization Tools 60

Scott Lowe

JUNE 4, 2013

This post by Ranga Maddipudi shows you how to use App Firewall in conjunction with VXLAN logical networks. Another post by Tom Nolle explores the relationship—complicated at times—between SDN, NFV, and the cloud. App Firewall? Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Venky explains it in this post.

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HP Virtualization Hardware Network 61