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Changing the calculus of containers in the cloud

All Things Distributed

With Fargate, you don't need to stand up a control plane, choose the right instance type, or configure all the other components of your application stack like networking, scaling, service discovery, load balancing, security groups, permissions, or secrets management. AWS Fargate finally makes containers cloud native.

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Technology Short Take 151

Scott Lowe

Nick Schmidt talks about using GitOps with the NSX Advanced Load Balancer. If you have any feedback for me—constructive criticism, praise, suggestions for where I can find more articles (especially if the site supports RSS!), Aidan Steele examines how VPC sharing could potentially improve security and reduce cost.

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Technology Short Take 103

Scott Lowe

If you’re not familiar with VPCs and associated AWS constructs, you should read this article. Check out these articles talking about IPVS-based in-cluster load balancing , CoreDNS , dynamic kubelet configuration , and resizing persistent volumes in Kubernetes. Networking. It’s really good. Servers/Hardware.

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Technology Short Take #81

Scott Lowe

Here’s a Windows-centric walkthrough to using Nginx to load balance across a Docker Swarm cluster. Keep that in mind—try to always offer constructive feedback instead of just being critical. Normally you’d see this sort of thing talking about Linux, but this one uses Windows throughout.). Matt Behrens shows how.

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Technology Short Take #25

Scott Lowe

In any case, this article by Frank Denneman on Storage DRS load balancing frequency might be useful to you. This is also why I’ve been spending time with Open vSwitch, which is a critical construct in Quantum.). This post describes some of the benefits of KVM’s VirtIO driver and how to use VirtIO with OpenStack.

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Fountainhead: CA's Acquisition of Cassatt - Hindsight & Foresight

Fountainhead

The instantiation of these observations was a product that put almost all of the datacenter on "autopilot" -- Servers, VMs, switches, load-balancers, even server power controllers and power strips. Does it sound like Amazons recent CloudWatch, Auto-Scaling and Elastic Load Balancing announcement? 3 comments: MHAner said.

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Lift-and-shift: Why does it undermine BSS-on-cloud transformation?

TM Forum

A comprehensive and systematic approach is required to identify the right platform and ensure a smooth BSS migration, based on a well thought out design-construct. It is evident that BSS-on-cloud transformation cannot be undertaken lightly, or without a proper design construct. Technical Evaluation - Application Maturity.

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