Scott Lowe

AUGUST 6, 2021

Here’s a quick look at using Envoy as a load balancer in Kubernetes. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. It’s a good starting point for thinking about operating your own active-active architecture. Operating Systems/Applications. I hope this collection of links has something useful for you!

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Open Source Load Balancer WAN Architecture 105

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 27, 2021

Teri Radichel uses some basketball analogies to explain why defensive (proactive) security strategies are more desirable than reactive security strategies. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Pablo Vidal Bouza discusses Segment’s move from SSH bastion hosts to AWS Systems Manager Session Manager. Good stuff.

Linux 90

Linux Load Balancer Malware Virtualization 90

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

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Linux Load Balancer IPv6 Licensing 74

Linux Academy

JUNE 3, 2019

Normally, when it comes to running an application from the cloud, you have to deal with setting it all up, which can take hours, days, or even weeks. You have to launch the virtual servers, which means you need to: Choose an operating system. Configure auto-scaling with load balancers. Install software packages.

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Linux Course Open Source Load Balancer 92

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”). Cloud Computing/Cloud Management.

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Load Balancer Cloud Applications Vmware 60

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 14, 2017

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

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Load Balancer Vmware Hardware Open Source 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 27, 2021

Teri Radichel uses some basketball analogies to explain why defensive (proactive) security strategies are more desirable than reactive security strategies. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Pablo Vidal Bouza discusses Segment’s move from SSH bastion hosts to AWS Systems Manager Session Manager. Good stuff.

Linux 60

Linux Load Balancer Malware Virtualization 60

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. From an unknown author, we have this security rant on Flatpak. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management.

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Load Balancer Operating Systems Intel Hardware 60

Cloud Musings

DECEMBER 11, 2015

Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) has always been the unappreciated sibling of the cloud computing service model trio. This valuable Teradata differentiator can be delivered under a private, public or hybrid cloud deployment model. The elasticity of cloud architecture enables the company to lease additional nodes within a few days.

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Disaster Recovery Healthcare Load Balancer Applications 70

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 6, 2021

Here’s a quick look at using Envoy as a load balancer in Kubernetes. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. It’s a good starting point for thinking about operating your own active-active architecture. Operating Systems/Applications. I hope this collection of links has something useful for you!

Open Source 60

Open Source Load Balancer WAN Architecture 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. Humair Ahmed takes a closer look at some Cross-VC NSX security enhancements that landed in the recent NSX 6.3

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Vmware Linux Storage Load Balancer 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 17, 2018

Andrew Martin has a write-up with security recommendations for your Kubernetes clusters. 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.

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Load Balancer Storage Network Linux 60

Scott Lowe

JUNE 8, 2018

Kamal Kyrala discusses a method for accessing Kubernetes Services without Ingress, NodePort, or load balancers. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Operating Systems/Applications. This is an interesting announcement from a few weeks ago that I missed—Dell EMC will offer Isilon on Google Cloud Platform.

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Load Balancer Vmware Storage Intel 60

Scott Lowe

APRIL 6, 2017

Konstantin Ryabitsev has a series going on securing a SysAdmin Linux workstation. Part 1 covers how to choose a Linux distribution, and part 2 discusses some security tips for installing Linux on your SysAdmin workstation. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Operating Systems/Applications. Yes, please! (I

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Vmware Linux Storage Network 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

Chris Binnie walks you through the process of using user namespaces to help secure your Docker hosts and containers. Virtue Security has some articles on AWS penetration testing: one on S3 buckets and one that also covers IAM and EC2. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Operating Systems/Applications.

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Storage Vmware Load Balancer 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. This doesn’t make me feel very secure. 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. Software company Agile Bits recently announced support for U2F-compatible hardware security keys in their 1Password product. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Operating Systems/Applications.

Network 60

Network Load Balancer Storage Applications 60

Scott Lowe

JULY 13, 2018

Bernd Malmqvist talks about Avi Networks’ software-defined load balancing solution, including providing an overview of how to use Vagrant to test it yourself. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Operating Systems/Applications. Julia Evans provides a quick overview of Wireshark.

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Load Balancer Virtualization Authentication Tools 60

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

Russell Bryant has a couple great articles on OVN— how to test OVN’s “EZ Bake” release with DevStack as well as an article on implementing OpenStack security groups using OVN ACLs (which in turn leverage the integration between Open vSwitch and the Linux kernel’s conntrack module). Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Storage.

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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. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Operating Systems/Applications. Networking Security Storage Virtualization Automation KVM Linux OpenStack OSS OVS vCloud VMware'

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Storage Vmware Linux Virtualization 92

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 17, 2015

This article listing 20 Linux server hardening tips contains some basic tips but is nevertheless a very good resource for someone looking for Linux security recommendations. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Operating Systems/Applications. Microsoft recently announced a preview of Azure Container Service (ACS).

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Vmware Linux Architecture Hardware 60

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 10, 2021

From the Not Surprised Department, some folks are starting to take a harder look at the timelines for security patches for older versions of macOS compared to newer versions. Rory McCune of Aqua shares some new security-related features in the Kubernetes 1.23 Cloud Computing/Cloud Management.

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Load Balancer Vmware Operating Systems Architecture 94

All Things Distributed

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Expanding the Cloud - Introducing AWS OpsWorks, a Powerful Application Management Solution. Operational Control â?? You define JSON templates and use them to provision and manage AWS resources, operating systems and application code.

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Cloud Applications Web Services Resources 157

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

In this post, I’m going to explore what’s required in order to build an isolated—or Internet-restricted— Kubernetes cluster on AWS with full AWS cloud provider integration. The instances won’t be able to connect to the public IP addresses associated with these endpoints, and thus the AWS cloud provider will fail.

Internet 60

Internet Load Balancer Cloud System 60

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). Here’s a nice article on a multi-action security workflow built using VMware NSX, vShield Endpoint, and vCenter Orchestrator. Networking.

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Open Source Vmware Network IBM 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

NFV is intended to address the problem caused by having to route/direct traffic from various sources through physical appliances designed to provide services like content filtering, security, content delivery/acceleration, and load balancing. COMS002: Next Generation Cloud Infrastructure with Data Plane Virtualization.

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Intel Load Balancer Architecture Virtualization 61

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 6, 2012

Another good resource is Dan Hersey’s guide to building an SDN-based private cloud in an hour. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. For example, Cody Bunch published this article on running OpenStack Private Cloud on ESXi , and Brent Salisbury (there he is again!) Operating Systems/Applications.

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Vmware Virtualization Storage Hardware 109