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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

Networking. 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!), And now for the content! What do you think microsegmentation means ?

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Technology Short Take 103

Scott Lowe

Networking. 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. on various technology areas.

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Technology Short Take #81

Scott Lowe

Networking. Matt Oswalt has a great post on the need for networking professionals to learn basic scripting skills—something he (rightfully) distinguishes from programming as a full-time occupation. Further, he follows that up with a post on how automation is more than just configuration management ; it’s about network services.

Vmware 60
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Technology Short Take #25

Scott Lowe

Networking. 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.

Storage 92
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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

For example, not all on premise applications will perform well on the cloud, including policy and charging rules function (PCRF) and network provisioning. 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. That's not all.

Cloud 130