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Weekly Update 6-17-2019: All About Ansible

Linux Academy

Because of how it is presented. Ansible uses YAML to describe your automation jobs, which is easy to learn in comparison to other languages because it looks very similar to plain English. There’s even more to Ansible that we couldn’t possibly cover in this blog, such as Ansible playbooks, or even how to install and deploy Ansible.

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Technology Short Take 135

Scott Lowe

This is an older article, but hopefully still useful nevertheless: Brian Mathews explains how to use the linkerd sidecar to find and fix application issues on Kubernetes. Here’s a post on using Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) to run Linux containers on Windows. Programming. Virtualization. Career/Soft Skills.

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Technology Short Take #78

Scott Lowe

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. I use OTR with Adium on OS X, and OTR with Pidgin on my Fedora Linux laptop.). Servers/Hardware.

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Technology Short Take 110

Scott Lowe

The folks over at Cilium took a look at a recent CNI benchmark comparison and unpacked it a bit. Christopher Damerau explains how to use Ansible to manage VMware resources. Tobias Zimmergren shows how to enable Azure Monitor for your AKS clusters. Myles Gray explains how to create an Ubuntu 18.04 Virtualization.

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Technology Short Take 97

Scott Lowe

Vadim Eisenberg has two articles that describe how to integrate external services into an Istio service mesh. Chris Young shares some details on a little side project he did to show how to use the Arista eAPI to do dynamic VLAN assignment based on MAC address. Tirumarai Selvan has a comparison. Networking. Servers/Hardware.

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Technology Short Take 92

Scott Lowe

Christian Kellner talks about work done on Thunderbolt 3 security levels for GNU/Linux. Tim’s review of each of the offerings is pretty balanced (thanks for that), and I’d recommend reading this post to get a better idea of how each of them work. Servers/Hardware. OpenSSH on Windows —what a time to be alive!

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A Leap into Learning Kubernetes

Virtualized Greek

Oh, did I forget to mention, other than installing Linux, I really shouldn’t be left to my own devices with a Linux console. The best comparison I have is VMware vSphere. I can speak to executives and help them understand directionally how to approach it. I have over 20-years of experience in IT.

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