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. (I I was going to make a joke about AWS Systems Manager Session Manager and Corey Quinn, but I couldn’t come up with anything. Operating Systems/Applications.

Linux 90

Linux Load Balancer Malware Virtualization 90

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

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.

Linux 92

Linux Course Open Source Load Balancer 92

Scott Lowe

JUNE 18, 2021

The collection of links shared below covers a fairly wide range of topics, from old Sun hardware to working with serverless frameworks in the public cloud. The first is a post on Cilium and F5 load balancer integration , while the second discusses implementing Kubernetes network policies with Cilium and Linkerd. Networking.

Vmware 60

Vmware Hardware Load Balancer Apple 60

All Things Distributed

MAY 8, 2012

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Expanding the Cloud for Windows Developers. Elastic Beanstalk gives developers an easy way to quickly build and manage their Java, PHP and as of today, their.NET applications in the AWS cloud. All Things Distributed. Comments ().

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Development Windows Disaster Recovery Licensing 115

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 6, 2021

Here’s a quick look at using Envoy as a load balancer in Kubernetes. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Via Alex Mitelman’s Systems Design Weekly 015 , I was pointed to this AWS article on multi-site active-active architectures. Operating Systems/Applications. Networking.

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Open Source Load Balancer WAN Architecture 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.

Disaster Recovery 70

Disaster Recovery Healthcare Load Balancer Applications 70

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.

Linux 74

Linux Load Balancer IPv6 Licensing 74

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. (I I was going to make a joke about AWS Systems Manager Session Manager and Corey Quinn, but I couldn’t come up with anything. Operating Systems/Applications.

Linux 60

Linux Load Balancer Malware Virtualization 60

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 105

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

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.

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Load Balancer Storage Network Linux 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.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Storage Load Balancer 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.

Load Balancer 60

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. Part 1 covers how to choose a Linux distribution, and part 2 discusses some security tips for installing Linux on your SysAdmin workstation.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Storage Network 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? What is AWS? What are AWS’s core services?

Linux 80

Linux Big Data Course Devops 80

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.

Storage 60

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

Vmware 60

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. 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.

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.

Load Balancer 60

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. Storage.

Vmware 60

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. I could be wrong (wouldn’t be the first time). Definitely worth reading, in my view.

Storage 92

Storage Vmware Linux Virtualization 92

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).

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Architecture Hardware 60

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Baptiste Collard has a post on Kubernetes controllers for AWS load balancers. One takeaway from this post for me was that the new AWS load balancer controller uses a ton of annotations. Operating Systems/Applications.

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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. OpsWorks uses automation to simplify operations. All Things Distributed. By Werner Vogels on 18 February 2013 11:30 PM. Comments (). Automated â??

Cloud 157

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

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

” The speakers are Recep Ozdag, a PME with Intel, and Gershon Schatzberg, a PLM with Wind River Systems. Some of these services naturally should run on the top-of-rack (ToR) switch, like load balancing or security services. COMS002: Next Generation Cloud Infrastructure with Data Plane Virtualization.

Intel 61

Intel Load Balancer Architecture Virtualization 61

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.

Open Source 60

Open Source Vmware Network IBM 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.

Vmware 109

Vmware Virtualization Storage Hardware 109