Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

As usual, I’ve collected some articles and links from around the Internet pertaining to various data center- and cloud-related topics. Servers/Hardware. The Kubernetes project recently underwent a security audit; more information on the audit, along with links to the findings and other details, is available here.

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Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

Envoy is a useful project with which to be familiar; it serves as the data plane for the Istio service mesh , and it is the data plane for Heptio’s Contour ingress controller (and, by extension, Heptio’s Gimbal multi-cluster routing solution ). Servers/Hardware. Networking. Julia Evans provides some Envoy basics.

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Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

Here’s another collection of links and articles from around the Internet discussing various data center-focused technologies. 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.

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Scott Lowe

JUNE 8, 2018

I have (hopefully) crafted an interesting and varied collection of links for you today, spanning all the major areas of modern data center technology. Kamal Kyrala discusses a method for accessing Kubernetes Services without Ingress, NodePort, or load balancers. Servers/Hardware. Welcome to Technology Short Take #101!

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Scott Lowe

AUGUST 17, 2018

Servers/Hardware. Andrew Martin has a write-up with security recommendations for your Kubernetes clusters. Check out these articles talking about IPVS-based in-cluster load balancing , CoreDNS , dynamic kubelet configuration , and resizing persistent volumes in Kubernetes. For Stephen, it was data management.

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

Recep will cover the hardware side of ONP; Gershon will cover the software side of ONP (referred to as ONS). ONP fits into this picture by performing VTEP functions in hardware (at line rate). Some of these services naturally should run on the top-of-rack (ToR) switch, like load balancing or security services.

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Scott Lowe

JUNE 21, 2019

David Holder walks through removing unused load balancer IP allocations in NSX-T when used with PKS. Servers/Hardware. Software company Agile Bits recently announced support for U2F-compatible hardware security keys in their 1Password product. I haven’t tested it.). Nothing this time around, sorry!

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Scott Lowe

APRIL 6, 2017

I have another collection of links, articles, and thoughts about key data center technologies, and hopefully I’ve managed to include something here that will prove useful or thought-provoking. Servers/Hardware. Konstantin Ryabitsev has a series going on securing a SysAdmin Linux workstation. Networking.

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Fountainhead

OCTOBER 6, 2009

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. a Fabric), and network switches, load balancers, etc. Alters security hierarchy: Since assets such as switches will now be controlled by machine (i.e. skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead. Tuesday, October 6, 2009.

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Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 6, 2012

This is my usual collection of links, thoughts, rants, and ideas about data center-related technologies. First up is Brent Salisbury’s how to build an SDN lab without needing OpenFlow hardware. Servers/Hardware. Is this the beginning of the data center fractal edge ? Welcome to Technology Short Take #27! Networking.

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Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 17, 2015

Before I present this episode’s collection of links, articles, and thoughts on various data center technologies, allow me to first wish all of my readers a very merry and very festive holiday season. If you’d like to play around with Cumulus Linux but don’t have a compatible hardware switch, Cumulus VX is the answer. Servers/Hardware.

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Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

In this post, I’ve collected a few links on various data center technologies, news, events, and trends. Servers/Hardware. Sean Collins has an article on building a cheap, compact, and multinode DevStack environment for a home lab that lays out some server hardware decisions and the tools he uses to manage them. Networking.

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Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

Tom’s key point is that disaggregating software from hardware—which is kind of a given if you’re buying whitebox networking gear—gives you the (potential) flexibility to repurpose network gear based on the software running on it. Servers/Hardware. This article on putting data in a volume in a Dockerfile is one example.

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