Scott Lowe

APRIL 15, 2022

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. Servers/Hardware. Cabling is hardware, right? Cloud Computing/Cloud Management.

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Linux Load Balancer IPv6 Licensing 74

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 14, 2017

Romain Decker has an “under the hood” look at the VMware NSX load balancer. Servers/Hardware. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Joe’s comment—“the merging of CDNs and cloud continues”—is pretty spot on, in my opinion. Operating Systems/Applications.

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Load Balancer Vmware Hardware Open Source 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

As usual, I’ve collected some articles and links from around the Internet pertaining to various data center- and cloud-related topics. I saw this headline , and immediately thought it was just “cloud native”-washing (i.e., tagging everything as “cloud native”). Servers/Hardware.

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Load Balancer Cloud Applications Vmware 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 27, 2021

Servers/Hardware. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Pablo Vidal Bouza discusses Segment’s move from SSH bastion hosts to AWS Systems Manager Session Manager. Operating Systems/Applications. I thought it was useful, so now I’m sharing it with you. Plastic microchips ? That’s kind of cool.

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Linux Load Balancer Malware Virtualization 90

All Things Distributed

MAY 8, 2012

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Expanding the Cloud for Windows Developers. pricing starts at $0.035/hour and is inclusive of SQL Server software, hardware, and Amazon RDS management capabilities. All Things Distributed. By Werner Vogels on 08 May 2012 02:00 PM. Comments ().

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Development Windows Disaster Recovery Licensing 116

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

Continuing on that Envoy theme, you may find this article by Matt Klein—one of the primary authors of Envoy—helpful in understanding some of the concepts behind modern load balancing and proxying. Servers/Hardware. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Operating Systems/Applications.

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Load Balancer Operating Systems Intel Hardware 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 6, 2021

Here’s a quick look at using Envoy as a load balancer in Kubernetes. Servers/Hardware. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. It’s a good starting point for thinking about operating your own active-active architecture. Operating Systems/Applications. Networking.

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Open Source Load Balancer WAN Architecture 60

Scott Lowe

JUNE 8, 2018

Kamal Kyrala discusses a method for accessing Kubernetes Services without Ingress, NodePort, or load balancers. Servers/Hardware. What I found interesting is that the local NVMe storage is also hardware encrypted. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization.

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Load Balancer Vmware Storage Intel 60

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

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. Servers/Hardware. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Operating Systems/Applications.

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Vmware Linux Storage Load Balancer 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 27, 2021

Servers/Hardware. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Pablo Vidal Bouza discusses Segment’s move from SSH bastion hosts to AWS Systems Manager Session Manager. Operating Systems/Applications. I thought it was useful, so now I’m sharing it with you. Plastic microchips ? That’s kind of cool.

Linux 60

Linux Load Balancer Malware Virtualization 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 17, 2018

Servers/Hardware. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Check out these articles talking about IPVS-based in-cluster load balancing , CoreDNS , dynamic kubelet configuration , and resizing persistent volumes in Kubernetes. Operating Systems/Applications. Nothing this time around, sorry!

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Load Balancer Storage Network Linux 60

Scott Lowe

APRIL 6, 2017

Servers/Hardware. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Operating Systems/Applications. Here’s a Windows-centric walkthrough to using Nginx to load balance across a Docker Swarm cluster. Yves Fauser discusses NSX integration with Kubernetes in this blog post. Intel NUC or SuperMicro E200-8D?

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Vmware Linux Storage Network 60

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 24, 2018

VPCs, or Virtual Private Clouds, are Amazon’s software-defined networking mechanism for workloads running on AWS.). Viktor van den Berg writes on deploying NSX load balancers with vRA. Servers/Hardware. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Operating Systems/Applications.

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Vmware Load Balancer Network Open Source 60

Scott Lowe

JUNE 21, 2019

David Holder walks through removing unused load balancer IP allocations in NSX-T when used with PKS. Servers/Hardware. Software company Agile Bits recently announced support for U2F-compatible hardware security keys in their 1Password product. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Operating Systems/Applications.

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Network Load Balancer Storage Applications 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

Servers/Hardware. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. The folks over at Cloudify recently did a survey on the state of “enterprise multi-cloud”; the report is available here (doesn’t appear to be behind a paywall/regwall). Operating Systems/Applications. RIP Solaris. Virtualization.

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Storage Vmware Load Balancer Network 60

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 17, 2015

If you’d like to play around with Cumulus Linux but don’t have a compatible hardware switch, Cumulus VX is the answer. Servers/Hardware. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Operating Systems/Applications. William Lam breaks down the real value of load balancing your PSC in this in-depth article.

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Vmware Linux Architecture Hardware 60

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

Servers/Hardware. Sean Collins has an article on building a cheap, compact, and multinode DevStack environment for a home lab that lays out some server hardware decisions and the tools he uses to manage them. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Operating Systems/Applications. In case you missed it, Docker 1.9

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Vmware Network Load Balancer Linux 60

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 5, 2012

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. Servers/Hardware. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Operating Systems/Applications.

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Storage Vmware Linux Virtualization 92

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

Recep will cover the hardware side of ONP; Gershon will cover the software side of ONP (referred to as ONS). ONP fits into this picture by performing VTEP functions in hardware (at line rate). Some of these services naturally should run on the top-of-rack (ToR) switch, like load balancing or security services.

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Intel Load Balancer Architecture Virtualization 61

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 6, 2012

First up is Brent Salisbury’s how to build an SDN lab without needing OpenFlow hardware. Another good resource is Dan Hersey’s guide to building an SDN-based private cloud in an hour. Not unsurprisingly, one of the key advantages of STT that’s highlighted is its improved performance due to TSO support in NIC hardware.

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Vmware Virtualization Storage Hardware 109

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

This time around, the content is a bit heavier on cloud management and applications/operating systems, but still lots of good content all the way around (I hope, anyway). Servers/Hardware. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Operating Systems/Applications. Networking.

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