Scott Lowe

MARCH 15, 2024

Ivan Pepelnjak dives deep on DHCP relaying on a Linux host. Rob McBryde shares his story of reviving a 2012 MacBook Pro with Linux. Security In early February a vulnerability was uncovered in a key component of the Linux boot process. Think Linux doesn’t have malware? TL;DR: It’s not as easy as it might seem.)

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Linux Vmware Load Balancer Malware 112

Linux Academy

JUNE 25, 2019

By adding free cloud training to our Community Membership, students can develop their Linux and Cloud skills even further. Members of the Linux Academy community come together and share their insights and questions. Principal Systems Engineer from Symantec Corporation and Ell Marquez for a Threat Report Rundown.

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Course Linux Cloud Devops 60

Linux Academy

MAY 28, 2019

By adding free cloud training to our Community Membership, students have the opportunity to develop their Linux and Cloud skills further. Stay tuned to the Linux Academy blog for further details. This is an introductory course that is designed to give you a solid foundation in the basics of network routing.

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Linux Course Big Data Devops 104

Linux Academy

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

By adding free cloud training to our Community Membership, students have the opportunity to develop their Linux and cloud skills further. Stay tuned to the Linux Academy blog for further details. Are you a non-technical person just wanting to know what this “Linux” thing is? Then this course is for you.

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Linux Big Data Course Devops 80

CTOvision

MAY 11, 2015

The Mesosphere datacenter operating system helps you organize the machines in your datacenter as if they are one big computer. Mesosphere provides a new kind of operating system. The DCOS (Datacenter Operating System) spans all the servers in a physical or cloud-based datacenter, and run on top of any Linux distribution.

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Operating Systems Linux System Applications 150

GeekWire

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

Amazon Photo) At a company famous for turning doors into desks, it only made sense for Amazon’s cloud division to find its first desktop productivity device in one of its consumer division’s existing streaming media products. “That is exactly what we’re going for,” he said.

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Hardware Linux Web Services HP 131

Linux Academy

APRIL 29, 2019

By adding free cloud training to our Community Membership, students have the opportunity to develop their Linux and Cloud skills further. Stay tuned to the Linux Academy blog for further details. Linux Study Group in May. Cloud Security Fundamentals — The cloud has brought about tons of innovation and features.

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Linux Course Big Data Devops 60

Linux Academy

JANUARY 29, 2019

By adding free cloud training to our Community Membership, students have the opportunity to develop their Linux and Cloud skills further. Stay tuned to the Linux Academy blog for further details. Git is a source control tool developed by none-other-than the guy who wrote the Linux Kernel himself.

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Linux Devops Big Data Course 60

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Tom Kravitz' article on how IBM lost the public cloud war is a fascinating look at the internals of a former technology powerhouse. AWS recently announced the Cloud Control API. Operating Systems/Applications.

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IPv6 Storage Hardware Vmware 97

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 12, 2022

DNS, BGP, hardware-based security, Kubernetes, Linux—they’re all in here. A “highly evasive” Linux malware named OrBit has emerged; see here for more details. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Operating Systems/Applications. Networking. Interested in hardening macOS? Programming.

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Linux Storage Virtualization Hardware 90

Linux Academy

JANUARY 1, 2020

To continually support your mission to learn and grow, we encourage you to try these free courses and resources for developing and advancing your Cloud skills. Azure Cloud Services and Infrastructure. How to Get a Linux Job. This course helps prepare you for applying for and successfully obtaining a Linux Job.

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Course Linux Devops Big Data 31

Linux Academy

JANUARY 30, 2020

To continually support your mission to learn and grow, we encourage you to try these free courses and resources for developing and advancing your Cloud skills. AWS Cloud Services and Infrastructure – Cost Optimization Deep Dive. How to Get a Linux Job. This course dives into LXC (Linux Containers) and its container manager, LXD.

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Course Linux Devops Big Data 29

Linux Academy

MAY 15, 2020

First, I want to acknowledge that there is a big difference between Linux and Windows containers. Linux containers have been around for many decades, in one form or another. The Linux operating system naturally lent itself to taking advantage of containers using namespaces and control groups (cgroups). Why Windows?

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Windows Linux Architecture Virtualization 129

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Tom Kravitz' article on how IBM lost the public cloud war is a fascinating look at the internals of a former technology powerhouse. AWS recently announced the Cloud Control API. Operating Systems/Applications.

IPv6 60

IPv6 Storage Hardware Vmware 60

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. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Operating Systems/Applications. Welcome to Technology Short Take #154! Enjoy the content!

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Linux Storage Programming Applications 74

Linux Academy

DECEMBER 1, 2019

To continually support your mission to learn and grow, we are always adding new, free courses and resources for developing Linux and Cloud skills. Members of the Linux Academy community come together and share their insights and questions. Microsoft SQL Server on Linux Quick Start. How to Get a Linux Job.

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Course Linux Devops Big Data 26

Scott Lowe

MARCH 20, 2020

Welcome to Technology Short Take #125, where I have a collection of articles about various data center and cloud technologies collected from around the Internet. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. William Lam provides a sneak peek at deploying Tanzu Kubernetes Grid on vSphere and VMware Cloud on AWS. Networking.

Linux 60

Linux Vmware Authentication Storage 60

Linux Academy

JANUARY 27, 2019

Simply put, Ansible facts are system properties that are collected by Ansible when it executes on a remote system. The facts contain useful details such as storage and network configuration about a target system. Ansible provides simple yet powerful automation no matter your operating system or cloud provider.

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System Linux Operating Systems Course 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

Linux Academy

JULY 30, 2019

Our free cloud training allows students to begin developing their Linux and Cloud skills. August Study Group: Whether you need the Cloud Practitioner certification for work or a personal goal, studying and staying on track is hard. How to Get a Linux Job. If you are able to attend we’d love to meet you!

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Course Linux Devops Cloud 25

Scott Lowe

APRIL 6, 2017

Humair Ahmed of VMware shares some details on a new control plane resiliency feature recently added to VMware NSX: Controller Disconnected Operation (CDO) mode. Here’s a handy list of deprecated Linux network commands and their replacements. Konstantin Ryabitsev has a series going on securing a SysAdmin Linux workstation.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Storage Network 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 27, 2021

I have a fairly diverse set of links for readers this time around, covering topics from microchips to improving your writing, with stops along the way in topics like Kubernetes, virtualization, Linux, and the popular JSON-parsing tool jq. Michael Kashin shares the journey of containerizing NVIDIA Cumulus Linux. Networking. Good stuff.

Linux 90

Linux Load Balancer Malware Virtualization 90

Scott Lowe

JUNE 19, 2020

This article explains how to use a “stacked filesystem” encryption solution named eCryptfs to encrypt directories on Linux. If you’re interested in doing something like this for cloud storage, this other article shows how to use encryption with rclone. ” Cloud Computing/Cloud Management.

Linux 60

Linux Intel Hardware Storage 60

Scott Lowe

JUNE 24, 2022

BPFDoor, as it is known, is a passive backdoor that allows threat actors to remotely connect to a Linux shell. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Operating Systems/Applications. Check out this write-up. Think PDF files are safe? Think again. Tetragon is Isovalent’s newly open-sourced security framework.

Vmware 74

Vmware Linux Storage Virtualization 74

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! Operating Systems/Applications Dewan Ahmed has a great run-down on options for documentation-as-code. Welcome to Technology Short Take #164!

Programming 90

Programming Open Source Cloud Devops 90

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 2, 2019

Last week at VMworld , I had the opportunity to meet with Lightbits Labs , a relatively new startup working on what they called “disaggregated storage.” So what is “disaggregated storage”? Lightbits has their own operating system, LightOS, which runs on industry-standard x64 servers from Dell, HP, Lenovo, etc.

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Meeting Storage HP Dell 60

Linux Academy

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

To continually support your mission to learn and grow, we are always adding new, free courses and resources for developing Linux and Cloud skills. Members of the Linux Academy community come together and share their insights and questions. How to Get a Linux Job. Included with Community Membership. Free Mastery Courses.

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Linux Course Devops Big Data 22

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. The folks at Netskope have a pair of blog posts on GCP OAuth token hijacking in Google Cloud ( part 1 , part 2 ). Cloud Computing/Cloud Management.

Linux 60

Linux Hardware Network Cloud 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 23, 2019

Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Operating Systems/Applications. Network bonding in Linux—as outlined in this article —is something I may have to explore. What I’d really like to have is something like ControlPlane (née Marco Polo for the longtime Mac users), but for Linux. Virtualization.

Linux 60

Linux Storage Policies Network 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 10, 2023

Alberto Pellitteri with Sysdig discusses SCARLETEEL , an operation conducted by an attacker that leveraged many of the tools found in modern cloud environments: Kubernetes, Terraform, and AWS. Diego Crespo talks about PowerShell on Linux and his experience with it. Yorick Peterse shares his experience with Fedora Silverblue.

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IPv6 Linux Tools Network 74

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 4, 2013

systems to use the Ubuntu Cloud Archive (which allows access to packaged versions of OpenStack for use with LTS releases of Ubuntu Server, like 12.04). As you may already know, I recently acquired two off-lease Dell PowerEdge C6100 systems. Using Puppet for Ubuntu Cloud Archive Support. Getting Hiera Working.

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Cloud Linux Dell Vmware 70

Linux Academy

AUGUST 29, 2019

To continually support you in your mission to learn and grow we are always adding new courses and free resources to begin developing your Linux and Cloud skills. Courses Free in September: Microsoft SQL Server On Linux Quick Start. Linux Networking and Trouble Shooting. Network Routing Fundamentals. Git Quick Start.

Linux 18

Linux Course Devops Big Data 18

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. I use OTR with Adium on OS X, and OTR with Pidgin on my Fedora Linux laptop.). Cloud Computing/Cloud Management.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Storage Load Balancer 60

Scott Lowe

APRIL 15, 2022

Although Linux is often considered to be superior to Windows and macOS with regard to security, it is not without its own security flaws. I, personally, would posit that Linux can be more secure than other platforms, but it requires proper configuration and can still be undone by a loose nut behind the keyboard. Virtualization.

Linux 74

Linux Load Balancer IPv6 Licensing 74

Scott Lowe

MAY 27, 2022

Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Here’s a user’s perspective on using infracost to bring cloud spend into your Terraform worfklows. Operating Systems/Applications. For relevant storage news, I’d recommend having a look at J Metz’ Storage Short Take 42. Kubernetes 1.24

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Virtualization Storage Programming Network 79

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Over the last few weeks, I’ve been collecting articles I wanted to share with readers on major areas in technology: networking, security, storage, virtualization, cloud computing, and OSes/applications. Jan Domanski has a four-part series on deploying a React app to AWS using Pulumi ( part 1 , part 2 , part 3 , and part 4 ).

Programming 96

Programming Policies Network Cloud 96

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 27, 2021

I have a fairly diverse set of links for readers this time around, covering topics from microchips to improving your writing, with stops along the way in topics like Kubernetes, virtualization, Linux, and the popular JSON-parsing tool jq along the way. Michael Kashin shares the journey of containerizing NVIDIA Cumulus Linux.

Linux 60

Linux Load Balancer Malware Virtualization 60