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

CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 4, 2024

Having segmentation between infrastructure providing data processing and data storage is an example of a broad IT security architectural pattern. As the technology portfolio changes, especially with the rapid adoption of the cloud, the architectural patterns included in the CCA have to be reevaluated periodically.

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Financial Architecture Resources Security 105

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

Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Pablo Vidal Bouza discusses Segment’s move from SSH bastion hosts to AWS Systems Manager Session Manager. Operating Systems/Applications. Rudi Martinsen has an article on changing the Avi load balancer license tier (this is in the context of using it with vSphere with Tanzu).

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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. Virtualization.

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Linux Load Balancer IPv6 Licensing 74

Scott Lowe

JUNE 8, 2018

Kamal Kyrala discusses a method for accessing Kubernetes Services without Ingress, NodePort, or load balancers. AWS adds local NVMe storage to the M5 instance family; more details here. What I found interesting is that the local NVMe storage is also hardware encrypted. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management.

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Load Balancer Vmware Storage Intel 60

Scott Lowe

APRIL 6, 2017

Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Operating Systems/Applications. Here’s a Windows-centric walkthrough to using Nginx to load balance across a Docker Swarm cluster. Brian Ragazzi shares a lesson learned the hard way regarding VVols: place the VSM/VASA on a non-VVol storage location. Virtualization.

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Vmware Linux Storage Network 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. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Operating Systems/Applications. Check this out.

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Vmware Linux Storage Load Balancer 60

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 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

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. Ivan Pepelnjak speaks frankly about VMware Cloud on AWS.

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Storage Vmware Load Balancer Network 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 17, 2018

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. These users did not have a good experience with AKS. Virtualization.

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Load Balancer Storage Network Linux 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. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Operating Systems/Applications. Servers/Hardware. Good stuff!

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Load Balancer Operating Systems Intel Hardware 60

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. March Study Group Course: Linux Operating System Fundamentals – Have you heard of Linux, but don’t really know anything about it?

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Linux Big Data Course Devops 80

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 27, 2021

Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Pablo Vidal Bouza discusses Segment’s move from SSH bastion hosts to AWS Systems Manager Session Manager. Operating Systems/Applications. Rudi Martinsen has an article on changing the Avi load balancer license tier (this is in the context of using it with vSphere with Tanzu).

Linux 60

Linux Load Balancer Malware Virtualization 60

Scott Lowe

JUNE 21, 2019

David Holder walks through removing unused load balancer IP allocations in NSX-T when used with PKS. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Operating Systems/Applications. Myles Gray shows how to use cloud-init for VM templating on vSphere. I’m looking forward to seeing how NaaS evolves. Cool stuff.

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Network Load Balancer Storage Applications 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. Erik Smith, notably known for his outstanding posts on storage and FCoE, takes a stab at describing some of the differences between SDN and network virtualization in this post.

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Storage Vmware Linux Virtualization 92

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

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Vmware Load Balancer Network Open Source 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. Virtualization.

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Load Balancer Virtualization Authentication Tools 60

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Operating Systems/Applications. Lew Goettner has a pretty hefty post on CoreOS and Docker on AWS that includes information on CoreOS, user data and cloud-init, AWS and Elastic Load Balancers (ELBs), Fleet, Registrator, Nginx, Confd, and Jenkins.

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Vmware Network Load Balancer Linux 60

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 17, 2015

Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Rackspace and VMware have a pair of articles discussing their interoperable OpenStack cloud architecture ( here’s the post from Rackspace , and here’s the post from VMware ). 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 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

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

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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