Cloud Musings

MARCH 9, 2018

According to the former Equifax CEO’s testimony to Congress , one of the primary causes of this now infamous data breach was the company’s failure to patch a critical vulnerability in the open source Apache Struts Web application framework. A process to identify vulnerabilities in hardware, operating systems, and applications.

Operating Systems 79

Operating Systems Enterprise Enterprise Virtualization 79

Scott Lowe

MARCH 1, 2019

I’m a couple weeks late on this one; wanted to publish it earlier but work has been keeping me busy (lots and lots of interest in Kubernetes and cloud-native technologies out there!). VyOS is an open source Linux-based network operating system.). Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Networking.

Operating Systems 60

Operating Systems Authentication Network Open Source 60

Linux Academy

APRIL 30, 2019

By adding free cloud training to our Community Membership, students have the opportunity to develop their Linux and Cloud skills further. LPI Linux Essentials — This course teaches the basic concepts of processes, programs, and the components of the Linux operating system. Courses Free in May. What is AWS?

Linux 113

Linux Course Big Data Devops 113

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 17, 2020

Guiliano Bertello introduces PowerVCF , a PowerCLI module aimed at interacting with the SDDC Manager and VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) stack. (If Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Eric Shanks has a good walkthrough on setting up a Kubernetes cluster on AWS with the AWS cloud provider enabled. This is kind of cool.

Load Balancer 60

Load Balancer Vmware Windows Cloud 60

Scott Lowe

MAY 27, 2022

Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. marks the first release of the open source container orchestration platform that is signed using Sigstore (more details here ). Here’s a user’s perspective on using infracost to bring cloud spend into your Terraform worfklows. Operating Systems/Applications.

Virtualization 79

Virtualization Storage Programming Network 79

Kitaboo

MAY 19, 2020

The Open Source Foundation aims to develop technology for expediting the adoption of ePUB3 and the Open Web Platform by the Digital Publishing Industry. It strives to deliver leading-edge functionality that is fully specified, free, open, and interoperable. How to Select the Best Digital Publishing Platform.

Architecture 78

Architecture eBook Open Source Applications 78

Scott Lowe

JUNE 24, 2022

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

Vmware 74

Vmware Linux Storage Virtualization 74

Scott Lowe

APRIL 15, 2022

Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Operating Systems/Applications. And it’s publicly available on GitHub , although not licensed with a typical open source license. Ouch— another Azure vulnerability that allows cross-account access. Levent Ogut takes a deep dive into Kubernetes init containers.

Linux 74

Linux Load Balancer IPv6 Licensing 74

SecureWorld News

JUNE 13, 2023

The Critical Start Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) team analyzed a range of intelligence sources, such as customer data, open-source intelligence, vulnerability research, social media monitoring, and Dark Web monitoring to identify the most pressing cybersecurity threats of the first half of 2023.

Trends 68

Trends Report Malware Linux 68

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 29, 2016

Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Kit Colbert shares 5 predictions for cloud-native applications in 2017. The “TL;DR” is that Google’s efforts around Kubernetes make it easier for customers to switch to their cloud, and their work around machine learning is the “carrot” that will bring them over. Career/Soft Skills.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Open Source Data Center 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 23, 2017

As opposed to just encrypting data at the transport level (although Acra does that between components of its architecture) or just encrypting data at the storage level (using an encrypted file system or similar), Acra targets encrypting data at the table/row/column level within a database. Acra is open source and available via GitHub.

Open Source 60

Open Source Storage Vmware Network 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 17, 2016

At DevOps Networking Forum 2016, I had the opportunity to share a presentation on some Linux networking options. If you’d like to see the presentation, it’s available on Slideshare and Speakerdeck. If you’d like to re-create the demo environment, check out the presentation’s GitHub repository. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Network Open Source 60

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. LPI Linux Essentials — This course teaches the basic concepts of processes, programs, and the components of the Linux operating system. Courses Free in May. What is AWS?

Linux 60

Linux Course Big Data Devops 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? Then this course is for you. What is AWS?

Linux 80

Linux Big Data Course Devops 80

Kitaboo

JULY 2, 2020

When it comes to MOBI eBook format, it is specialized for Kindle devices, and since Kindle is not an open-source format, the eReaders which support MOBI are not many. Among the highlights of Calibre are – It is essentially an open-source tool that supports different format conversions. It is completely free of cost.

eBook 78

eBook Windows Software Software 78

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 24, 2018

has a nice write-up on Cisco XR stemming from a presentation at NFD 17. VPCs, or Virtual Private Clouds, are Amazon’s software-defined networking mechanism for workloads running on AWS.). Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Operating Systems/Applications. I hope it proves useful! Networking.

Vmware 60

Vmware Load Balancer Network Open Source 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. After taking this course, students will know how Azure App Service is used as a Platform as a Service (PaaS) offering for deploying cloud apps for web and mobile environments. What is AWS?

Linux 104

Linux Course Big Data Devops 104

Scott Lowe

MAY 11, 2018

” While the post is clearly Sysdig-oriented (as would be fully expected), it’s also cool to see how powerful the assembly of various open source projects can be. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Operating Systems/Applications. Which isolation option should you use? Career/Soft Skills.

Network 60

Network Virtualization Open Source Vmware 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. Linux Operating System Fundamentals – Have you heard of Linux, but don’t really know anything about it? Then this course is for you. What is AWS? Why do we use AWS?

Linux 60

Linux Devops Big Data Course 60

ForAllSecure

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Jonathan Knudsen from Synopsys joins The Hacker Mind to discuss his presentation at SecTor 2021 on fuzzing message brokers such as RabbitMQ and VerneMQ, both written in Erlang, demonstrating that any type of software in any environment can still be vulnerable. Vamosi: The idea behind Open Source is great.

Open Source 52

Open Source Software Software Applications 52

Dataconomy

APRIL 13, 2023

The ability to remotely access and control computers has been a game-changer for businesses, allowing them to provide technical support and troubleshoot issues without having to be physically present at the location. and the open-source community. What is a Virtual Network Computing port?

Virtualization 36

Virtualization Network Linux Windows 36

Scott Lowe

APRIL 8, 2013

Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. As the website describes it, it’s designed to “reverse engineer” servers so that you can migrate them into a configuration management system like Chef or Puppet. Operating Systems/Applications. Check it out here. Does a dedicated iSCSI infrastructure make sense?

Storage 111

Storage Vmware WAN Virtualization 111

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

see below in the “Operating Systems/Applications” section), Metaswitch has announced a Container Networking Interface (CNI) plugin for Project Calico. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Operating Systems/Applications. Networking. Along with the release of rkt 1.0 (see on Azure VMs. Look at this.

Vmware 60

Vmware Network Operating Systems Virtualization 60

Scott Lowe

JULY 14, 2015

Want to know a bit more about how OVN (Open Virtual Network) plans to integrate support for containers? You might also find it useful to review this OVN presentation from the recent OpenStack Summit in Vancouver. A video recording of the presentation is also available on YouTube. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management.

Vmware 60

Vmware Devops Virtualization Network 60

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 17, 2015

Before I present this episode’s collection of links, articles, and thoughts on various data center technologies, allow me to first wish all of my readers a very merry and very festive holiday season. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Operating Systems/Applications. Welcome to Technology Short Take #58.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Architecture Hardware 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

OCTOBER 23, 2013

with the Floodlight open source controller. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Kenneth Hui—with whom I have the privilege of co-presenting at the OpenStack Summit in Hong Kong in less than a month—has a comprehensive write-up on using Vagrant and Chef to build an HA OpenStack installation on your laptop.

Vmware 60

Vmware Network Virtualization Storage 60

ForAllSecure

MARCH 24, 2021

How could open source software be vulnerable for so long? In a moment I’ll tell you about a flaw discovered only through fuzz testing in a very old open source product. Vamosi: So a vulnerable version of Bash provided an attacker the ability to pass untrusted code to other systems and processes.

Open Source 52

Open Source Operating Systems Software Software 52

ForAllSecure

MARCH 24, 2021

How could open source software be vulnerable for so long? In a moment I’ll tell you about a flaw discovered only through fuzz testing in a very old open source product. Vamosi: So a vulnerable version of Bash provided an attacker the ability to pass untrusted code to other systems and processes.

Open Source 52

Open Source Operating Systems Software Software 52

Linux Academy

MARCH 26, 2019

By adding free cloud training to our Community Membership, students have the opportunity to develop their Linux and Cloud skills further. DevSecOps Essentials — This course covers the DevSecOps process with an emphasis on securing both legacy and hybrid cloud environments. What is AWS? What are AWS’s core services?

Linux 12

Linux Course Devops Big Data 12

ForAllSecure

APRIL 22, 2021

The Internet of Things presents us with both convenience and inconvenience at the same time, suddenly everything is smart is hackable again with startups sometimes repeating security mistakes made decades ago in the rush to market toys. Do we really need that to communicate with the cloud. In addition to a smart coffee mug.

Internet 52

Internet Research Security Tools 52

ForAllSecure

APRIL 22, 2021

The Internet of Things presents us with both convenience and inconvenience at the same time, suddenly everything is smart is hackable again with startups sometimes repeating security mistakes made decades ago in the rush to market toys. Do we really need that to communicate with the cloud. In addition to a smart coffee mug.

Internet 52

Internet Research Security Tools 52

TM Forum

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

There are three typical approaches used by carriers to seize B2B opportunities: Cloud + Network + X – in addition to 5G networks, an operator-owned cloud is built to attract ecosystem partners, whose capabilities can be combined to build a B2B vertical integration solution. Preferred phased or functional optimization.

B2B 130

B2B Agile Industry Network 130

Scott Lowe

APRIL 17, 2017

One use case mentioned is Intuit’s use of Docker, and Golub points out that the person responsible for running Intuit’s systems is confident enough in their systems that they’re attending DockerCon on Tax Day (when as many as 25 million tax returns are expected to be processed). At 9:05am, Ben Golub, CEO of Docker, Inc., to the stage.

Linux 60

Linux Open Source Windows Security 60

ForAllSecure

AUGUST 26, 2021

At Black Hat USA 2021, researchers presented how they used their own fuzzer designed for hypervisors to find a critical vulnerability in Microsoft Azure. Robert: When we hear that something is processed or stored in the cloud, we often think we understand what that means. Sure, I know, the data is not literally in the cloud in the sky.

Research 52

Research Virtualization Microsoft Cloud 52

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 10, 2015

This article provides a good introductory overview of Linux iptables commands for configuring host-based firewall rules on your Linux systems. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. It’s a way to run Kubernetes (the container orchestration system) on top of Mesos (the cluster resource scheduler) as a native Mesos framework.

Windows 60

Windows Firewall Linux Architecture 60

Phil Windley

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Each pico presents a unique Event-Query API that is dependent on the specific rulesets installed in the pico. Wrangler is the pico operating system. Wrangler presents an event-query API for picos that supports programatically managing the pico lifecycle, channels and policies, and rulesets. Come Contribute.

Engineering 52

Engineering Architecture System Development 52