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Technology Short Take 156

Scott Lowe

Tetragon is Isovalent’s newly open-sourced security framework. That doesn’t mean these tools aren’t worth exploring (I definitely believe they are), but you should go into it fully aware of the potential concerns. Virtualization. Check out this write-up. Think PDF files are safe? Think again.

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Using Puppet for Account Management

Scott Lowe

It’s been over four months since my last post on open source Puppet , when I posted some updated multi-OS Puppet configurations. The key to making it work is the idea of a virtual resource. The Puppet Labs site does a much better job of explaining virtual resources. Realize the virtual user resources where needed.

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Technology Short Take #37

Scott Lowe

A fan of network virtualization might also say that decomposing today’s complex physical networks into multiple simple logical networks on top of a simpler physical transport network—similar to Mike’s suggestion of converging on a smaller set of reference architectures—might also help. (Of Virtualization.

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Technology Short Take #59

Scott Lowe

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). I haven’t yet had the opportunity to work with it, but it is definitely something I’d like to explore in more detail.

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What’s Free at Linux Academy — May 2019

Linux Academy

You learn the basic knowledge of computer hardware, gain an understanding of open-source applications in the workplace, and learn to navigate systems on a Linux desktop, as well as rudimentary commands to navigate the Linux command line. This course will dive into LXC (LinuX Containers) and its container manager, LXD.

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Technology Short Take #25

Scott Lowe

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. I found this series of posts to be helpful when I was working on configuring LACP with Open vSwitch (I hope to have a blog post on that up soon).

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Technology Short Take #60

Scott Lowe

And while we are on the topic of Linux and open source in the networking industry…read this entertaining and informative article on the importance of (truly) open source libraries in networking. The project itself is open source and hosted on GitHub. Virtualization. Per the README.md Hint, hint.).

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