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. Virtualization. Networking. Career/Soft Skills.

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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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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. Virtualization.

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

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Linux Load Balancer Malware Virtualization 60

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. Virtualization. Servers/Hardware.

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Linux Load Balancer IPv6 Licensing 74

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.

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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. Virtualization.

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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. Virtualization. Good stuff!

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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. Virtualization. Julia Evans provides a quick overview of Wireshark.

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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. Virtualization. Need to customize the virtual networks that VMware Fusion offers? A command-line client for Twitter ?

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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. Virtualization.

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

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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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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

and their product (VirTool Network Analyzer) is aimed at providing some operational visibility into OpenStack virtual networks. I saw a demo of the product—it looks quite handy, and provides a pretty fair amount of information to help operators figure out what’s happening “under the covers. Virtualization.

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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

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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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. Virtualization. Myles Gray shows how to use cloud-init for VM templating on vSphere. Cool stuff.

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Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

Open Virtual Network (OVN) is really ramping up and getting lots of attention, which I personally think is absolutely well-deserved. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization. Welcome to Technology Short Take #56! I hope you find something useful here. Networking.

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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. Virtualization. Want to run Docker Swarm on Azure? Good write-up.

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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. Virtualization.

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

The first concept that Recep discusses is network virtualization. He believes that network virtualization is primarily about decoupling network services from the underlying network infrastructure. The specific terminology involved is that the virtual switches become a VTEP, a virtual tunnel end-point.

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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). tech preview of virtual networks for Docker. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Operating Systems/Applications. Networking.

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