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What’s Free at Linux Academy — March 2019

Linux Academy

By adding free cloud training to our Community Membership, students have the opportunity to develop their Linux and cloud skills further. Each month, we will kick off our community content with a live study group, allowing members of the Linux Academy community to come together and share their insights in order to learn from one another.

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DockerCon 2017 Black Belt Session: Cilium for Network and Application Security

Scott Lowe

Graf starts by talking about how BPF (specifically, extended BPF or eBPF) can be used to rethink how the Linux kernel handles network traffic. Following the demo, Graf explains how Cilium (and BPF) works. Shifting focus slightly, Graf moves on to discuss XDP/BPF and the “software load balancer of the future.” What is XDP?

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Technology Short Take #81

Scott Lowe

Here’s a handy list of deprecated Linux network commands and their replacements. If you were at VMworld 2016 last year, this is the integration we demoed live in this Spotlight Session. Konstantin Ryabitsev has a series going on securing a SysAdmin Linux workstation. Servers/Hardware. Intel NUC or SuperMicro E200-8D?

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Top 10 Most Popular Hands-On Labs

Linux Academy

“My favorite parts about Linux Academy are the practical lab sessions and access to playground servers, this is just next level.” Setting Up an Application Load Balancer with an Auto Scaling Group and Route 53 in AWS. First, you will create and configure an Application Load Balancer.

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Technology Short Take #87

Scott Lowe

Vincent Bernat has a really in-depth article on IPv4 route lookup on Linux (and one on IPv6 route lookup as well). I saw a demo of the product—it looks quite handy, and provides a pretty fair amount of information to help operators figure out what’s happening “under the covers.” Networking. Virtualization.

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Liveblog: DockerCon 2015 Day 2 General Session

Scott Lowe

The current GSA applications look like stovepipes that often implement replicated services using different technologies and solutions (different RDMS solutions, different load balancers, duplicate identity/access management solutions). This leads to a demo from Russinovich on various Microsoft integrations with Docker.

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DockerCon 2016 Day 1 Keynote

Scott Lowe

Golub gives a “shout out” to the technologies underpinning modern Linux containers (namespaces, cgroups, etc., After a brief side venture into sacrifices for the demo gods, Golub introduces Solomon Hykes onto the stage. Enhancing portability. Extending community. These tools enable more powerful things.