Scott Lowe

MAY 25, 2017

Anthony Shaw has a good comparison of Ansible, StackStorm, and Salt (with a particular view at applicability in a networking context). Servers/Hardware. This was the source of some confusion in the past; the move to Moby sidesteps those concerns. Check out the GitHub repository. Fun read if you’re into custom builds.

Linux 60

Linux Open Source Network Vmware 60

Scott Lowe

MAY 25, 2017

Anthony Shaw has a good comparison of Ansible, StackStorm, and Salt (with a particular view at applicability in a networking context). Servers/Hardware. This was the source of some confusion in the past; the move to Moby sidesteps those concerns. Check out the GitHub repository. Fun read if you’re into custom builds.

Linux 60

Linux Open Source Network Vmware 60

Scott Lowe

MAY 3, 2019

Via the Kubernetes blog , Box announced it has open sourced a project called kube-iptables-tailer , which turns packet drops from iptables into Kubernetes events that can be logged for easier troubleshooting. Diógenes Rettori has a comparison of Istio and Linkerd as solutions for service mesh. Servers/Hardware.

Vmware 60

Vmware Open Source Intel Applications 60

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

Servers/Hardware. Serve The Home takes a critical look at the Bloomberg Supermicro stories, debunking or at least calling into question many details of the alleged hardware hack as reported by Bloomberg. Non-code contributions are, in my opinion, an important but oft-overlooked aspect of open source communities.

Load Balancer 60

Load Balancer Operating Systems Intel Hardware 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 16, 2017

Anthony Shaw has a good comparison of Ansible, StackStorm, and Salt (with a particular view at applicability in a networking context). Servers/Hardware. This was the source of some confusion in the past; the move to Moby sidesteps those concerns. Check out the GitHub repository. Virtualization. Career/Soft Skills.

Open Source 60

Open Source Network Linux Engineering 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 17, 2016

Matt Oswalt recently unveiled (and open sourced) a framework called ToDD, which stands for “Testing on Demand: Distributed”. Servers/Hardware. Personally, I think it’s an apples-to-oranges comparison, since Kubernetes is more than just a scheduler (think about replication controllers and services and such), but to each his own.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Network Open Source 60

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 24, 2018

Servers/Hardware. Courtesy of Corey Quinn, here’s an awesome AWS versus Azure comparison , comic book style. Jesse Hu has shared a Helm chart for deploying VMware’s open source Harbor registry. Nothing this time around, sorry! This doesn’t make me feel very secure. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management.

Vmware 60

Vmware Load Balancer Network Open Source 60

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 6, 2012

First up is Brent Salisbury’s how to build an SDN lab without needing OpenFlow hardware. His earlier post on getting started with OpenFlow and Open vSwitch tutorial lab is also quite good. Not unsurprisingly, one of the key advantages of STT that’s highlighted is its improved performance due to TSO support in NIC hardware.

Vmware 109

Vmware Virtualization Storage Hardware 109

Scott Lowe

JUNE 11, 2014

He makes comparisons among server virtualization, 10 Gigabit Ethernet, and SDN, and feels that in order for SDN to really hit this market it needs to be “not a user-facing feature, but rather a means to an end” (his words). Servers/Hardware. Someone recently brought the open source Open vStorage project to my attention.

Vmware 60

Vmware Storage Network Virtualization 60