Scott Lowe

AUGUST 30, 2013

The statement claimed NSX was nothing more than a collection of tools, and that it was possible to get the equivalent of NSX using completely free (as in speech and as in beer) open source tools—specifically, IPTables , StrongSwan , OpenVPN , and Open vSwitch (OVS). Programmable edge virtual switches in the hypervisor.

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Virtualization Network Linux Open Source 60

Linux Academy

APRIL 10, 2020

By now you’ve heard the stories that Microsoft loves Linux and fully embraces the open-source world. Microsoft, under Satya Nadella, has taken a new stance on open-source , which to some is a complete flip-flop from the Microsoft of the past. Visual Studio Code. TypeScript.NET Core. and many more.

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Linux Open Source Groups Applications 143

Linux Academy

DECEMBER 1, 2019

To continually support your mission to learn and grow, we are always adding new, free courses and resources for developing Linux and Cloud skills. Courses Free in December : CloudFormation Deep Dive. This course helps prepare you for applying for and successfully obtaining a Linux Job. Free Mastery Courses.

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Course Linux Devops Big Data 26

Linux Academy

JULY 30, 2019

To continually support you in your mission to learn and grow we are always adding new courses and resources. Free Courses in August: August means its time for Hacker Summer Camp! AWS Security Essentials – This course prepares learners to be more security-minded with their architecture in AWS.

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Course Linux Devops Cloud 25

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 27, 2019

Here’s a list of 35 advanced tutorials to help learn Kubernetes , courtesy of Aymen El Amri (and the authors of the various tutorials, of course). Cole Atkinson discusses the fact that osxfuse is no longer open source , and the ramifications of this development on open source in general. Virtualization.

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Open Source Vmware Authentication Storage 60

Linux Academy

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

To continually support your mission to learn and grow, we are always adding new, free courses and resources for developing Linux and Cloud skills. Early on, the course will focus on the basics of CloudFormation, such as templates and scripting languages to write templates: JSON and YAML.

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Linux Course Devops Big Data 22

Linux Academy

APRIL 29, 2019

Courses Free in May. LPI Linux Essentials — This course teaches the basic concepts of processes, programs, and the components of the Linux operating system. This course covers objectives for the LPI Essentials exam version 1.5. If so, this is the course for you. 3) Join us on YouTube!

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Linux Course Big Data Devops 60

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 30, 2013

Recently a couple of open source software (OSS)-related announcements have passed through my Inbox, so I thought I’d make brief mention of them here on the site. Of course, I’m not an expert, so I could be wrong. Inktank Ceph Enterprise will include: Open source Ceph (version 0.67). Mirantis OpenStack.

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Open Source Linux Vmware Enterprise 60

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 6, 2013

Of course, the distinction between control plane protocols and data plane protocols isn’t always perfectly clear. Of course, I am a fan of network virtualization, since I work with/on VMware NSX.). Duncan Epping has a quick post about a VMware KB article update regarding EMC VPLEX and Storage DRS/Storage IO Control.

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Vmware Storage Linux Network 60

Linux Academy

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

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. Eschewing any technical practices, this course takes a high-level view of the history of Linux, the open-source movement, and how this powerful software is used today.

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Linux Big Data Course Devops 80

Linux Academy

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

To continually support your mission to learn and grow, we are always adding new, free courses and resources for developing Linux and Cloud skills. Courses Free in November : CloudFormation Deep Dive. This course helps prepare you for applying for and successfully obtaining a Linux Job. Free Mastery Courses.

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Linux Academy

MAY 28, 2019

Courses Free in May: Network Routing Protocol Fundamentals – Network routing is the process of enabling computers to transfer data over networks, including the internet. This is an introductory course that is designed to give you a solid foundation in the basics of network routing.

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Linux Course Big Data Devops 104

Galido

APRIL 27, 2020

Of course, this is just one part of why Kubernetes is useful and widely praised. However, even though the project was promising, in 2015, Google released this tool as an open-source project. This tool automates deploying, scaling, and managing containerized applications on a cluster of servers (virtual or bare metal).

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Load Balancer Tools Applications Open Source 94

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 14, 2016

Cumulus VX, if you aren’t aware, is a community-supported virtual appliance version of Cumulus Linux aimed at helping folks preview and test “full-blown” Cumulus Linux (which, of course, requires compatible hardware). VMware open-sourced an identity and access management service called Lightwave ( project web site , GitHub repo ).

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Vmware Devops Storage Linux 60

Linux Academy

AUGUST 29, 2019

To continually support you in your mission to learn and grow we are always adding new courses and free resources to begin developing your Linux and Cloud skills. Courses Free in September: Microsoft SQL Server On Linux Quick Start. Welcome to the Network Routing Fundamentals course! Network Routing Fundamentals.

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Linux Course Devops Big Data 18

Linux Academy

JANUARY 29, 2019

February Study Group Course: YAML Essentials – YAML Essentials gives even the absolute YAML beginner the skills they need to craft documents using this popular data serialization language. This course explores how to write a properly structured YAML file in both the human-readable block style and the JSON-compatible flow style.

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Linux Devops Big Data Course 60

Linux Academy

MARCH 28, 2019

This means if storage is cheaper within one cloud datacenter, or user proximity warrants placement in foreign shore locations, that new clusters may be strategically placed in these chosen locales. Once federated storage solutions other than the Prometheus time series database may be used to record metrics over longer periods of time.

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Open Source Devops Linux Cloud 60

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 29, 2016

Jase McCarty talks about how to backup or recover storage policy-based management (SPBM) profiles. Virtualization. This is all unsupported stuff, of course, but that hasn’t stopped home-labbers before. This is notable (for me, at least) primarily because a growing number of Docker images are based on Alpine Linux. Neat trick!

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Vmware Linux Open Source Data Center 60

Scott Lowe

APRIL 8, 2013

Of course, Big Switch recently moved to “diversify,” if you will, away from just Floodlight with the introduction of Switch Light. If you’re a real storage geek (or if you’re not but are having trouble sleeping), check out this USENIX presentation on erasure coding in Windows Azure storage.

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Storage Vmware WAN Virtualization 111

Linux Academy

JULY 30, 2019

To continually support you in your mission to learn and grow we are always adding new courses and resources. Free Courses in August: August means its time for Hacker Summer Camp! AWS Security Essentials – This course prepares learners to be more security-minded with their architecture in AWS.

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Course Linux Devops Cloud 12

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 14, 2016

Cumulus VX, if you aren’t aware, is a community-supported virtual appliance version of Cumulus Linux aimed at helping folks preview and test “full-blown” Cumulus Linux (which, of course, requires compatible hardware). VMware open-sourced an identity and access management service called Lightwave ( project web site , GitHub repo ).

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Devops Vmware Storage Open Source 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

Mirantis, a company that “delivers OpenStack cloud and open source application infrastructure” (taken from their About page ), recently posted a blog entry about how accepting VMware as an OpenStack Foundation gold member was a mistake. Virtualization OpenStack OSS VMware' Subduing OpenStack Is a Bit Strong.

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Vmware Dell Financial Intel 108

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 6, 2013

Of course, there are blogs that go for months between posts, so a small gap of a couple weeks isn’t really a big deal. Visit the site for more information on virtualization, servers, storage, and other enterprise technologies. A Call for Open vSwitch Topics. Open Source Tools and Projects I Should Learn.

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Open Source Vmware Storage Course 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 2, 2017

Skydive is (in the project’s own words) an “open source real-time network topology and protocols analyzer.” I just noticed this article about using Nova flavor extra-specs to pass QoS data down to the virtualization layer. Here’s a list of some open source Docker-related tools that developers may find useful.

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Linux Devops Open Source Virtualization 60

Scott Lowe

MAY 9, 2014

Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) is a networking topic that is starting to get more and more attention (some may equate “attention” with “hype”; I’ll allow you to draw your own conclusion there). Virtualization. Here’s hoping you find something useful! Networking.

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Vmware Storage HP Virtualization 60

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 22, 2012

Lots of folks like using Dropbox , the ubiquitous store-and-sync cloud storage service; I am among them. To help address that, I looked around to find an open, interoperable way of adding an extra layer of encryption onto my data. A Mac port of the open source EncFS FUSE filesystem. Background.

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Open Source Storage Security Guidelines 137

Scott Lowe

APRIL 27, 2018

Cilium, the open source project working to bring eBPF-powered networking and security to Kubernetes environments, has hit the 1.0 Your mileage may vary, of course. The Kubernetes blog has some more details on the Container Storage Interface (CSI) in Kubernetes 1.10, which has moved from alpha to beta as part of the 1.10

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Vmware Storage Open Source Security 60

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 17, 2020

Readers can, of course, extrapolate from the concepts presented here to include other development environments. Virtualization. As of January 14, Windows 7 is now End of Life (EOL), as pointed out here by Sergiu Gatlan. This is kind of cool. I’m so far behind. Career/Soft Skills.

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Load Balancer Vmware Windows Cloud 60

Virtualized Greek

DECEMBER 16, 2013

Last year for example they added Storage DRS, which was a great new feature. When they introduced the concept of distributed virtual switches it was licensed via a higher level of licensing for vSphere. VMware continues to maintain the gold standard as the virtualization management leader. VMware hasn’t had a death ear.

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Vmware Licensing Virtualization Enterprise 85

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 3, 2014

In my original 2013 project list , I said that I was going to focus on RHEL and RHEL variants, but over the course of the year ended up focusing more on Debian and Ubuntu instead (due to more up-to-date packages and closer alignment with OpenStack). There’s always room to grow, of course. Grade: B (above average).

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Report Linux Network Data Center 60

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 23, 2013

with the Floodlight open source controller. That’s assuming your laptop is beefy enough, of course.). Virtualization. It’s kind of funny: I was doing a bit of reading on ZeroVM , a new open source lightweight hypervisor, trying to understand where it fits in the overall virtualization space.

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Vmware Network Virtualization Storage 60

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 14, 2017

This is, of course, just one way of handling subnets within a VPC, but some of the principles outlined in Christopher’s article are definitely sound. The popular open source container registry project, Harbor , has released a new version (version 1.2). Virtualization. Networking.

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Load Balancer Vmware Hardware Open Source 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Pradipta Kumar Banerjee has an article on using local storage for instances in OpenStack. On the face of it, I agree with Matt’s statement that “design by committee” tends not to work well; however, I also believe that there needs to be some reasonable counterbalance to a single (commercial) entity’s control over an open source project.

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Vmware Linux Intel Storage 60

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

I don’t have any specific goals in mind for this project, although that is something I’ll be evaluating over the course of the year (I do agree that clear goals—something I didn’t establish last year—can help with progress.). Open Source Tools and Projects I Should Learn. Mid-Year Project Update.

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Linux Data Center Network Open Source 92

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 4, 2012

As you may already know, I’ve been working with Open vSwitch (OVS) for a few weeks now, trying to wrap my head around how this open source project works. The trick, of course, is knowing what values to substitute into the command to manipulate the OVS database in the right way. Networking Virtualization OSS OVS'

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Examples Virtualization Open Source Network 108

Linux Academy

MARCH 26, 2019

April Study Group Course. This Ansible Quick Start course is designed to get you up and running with the Ansible essentials quickly. Free Courses in April. In this course, we will cover Ansible configuration, modules, command line usage, and Playbook building. Don’t forget to join our study group!

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Linux Course Devops Big Data 12

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 17, 2017

At 9:02, the lights go down and another clip appears, the first of several cliups that depict life “without Docker” and then again “with Docker” (where everything is better, of course). In reality, of course, it will often be more complex than this.). Developers are, of course, welcome to use Kubernetes tools.

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Applications SAP Tools Course 60