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Technology Short Take #77

Scott Lowe

Simon Leinen (from SWITCHengines) explains their use of IPv6 with OpenStack. Jeff Geerling has a great article on why he returned his 2016 MacBook Pro with Touch Bar ; it’s definitely worth a read, in my opinion. Flatpak is a (relatively) new application packaging/sandboxing mechanism for Linux applications.

Linux 60
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Technology Short Take #49

Scott Lowe

I highly recommend you read the entire post, but in short the five skills Matt recommends are software skills (which includes configuration management and software development tools like Git ), Linux, deep protocol knowledge, hypervisor and container networking, and IPv6. What does this mean? You’re welcome.

Vmware 60
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Technology Short Take #57

Scott Lowe

Tor Anderson has an article on using IPv6 for network boot using UEFI and iPXE. In part 2 Larry walks through the node definitions in Vagrant , and in part 3 he reviews the Vagrantfile and turns up the environment. Larry Smith Jr. has a great blog series going called “Hey, I can DevOps my Network too!”

Windows 60