Scott Lowe

JANUARY 27, 2023

Back in October of last year, Tom Hollingsworth weighed in on Hedgehog , the networking company that has set out to commercialize SONiC, a Linux-based NOS used extensively in Azure. Servers/Hardware What do you think of the ThinkPhone ? Ah, the bygone sounds of yesteryear …what a blast from the past! to version 8.0.

Programming 90

Programming Open Source Cloud Devops 90

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 28, 2016

The rise of Linux in importance in the networking industry continues, with Arista announcing enhancements to Arista EOS to support—among other things—Docker containers. As a partial counterpoint to the increased use/visibility of Linux in the networking industry, check out Ivan’s take on Dell’s OS10 announcement. Servers/Hardware.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Open Source Devops 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 16, 2017

Sjors Robroek describes his nested NSX-T lab that also includes some virtualized network equipment (virtualized Arista switches). Servers/Hardware. Virtualization. I really enjoyed this article by Jon Hall on the Andon cord and ITSM’s DevOps challenge. Here’s a great way. Career/Soft Skills.

Windows 60

Windows Virtualization Devops Vmware 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 17, 2016

At DevOps Networking Forum 2016, I had the opportunity to share a presentation on some Linux networking options. Here’s another topic that came up at the recent DevOps Networking Forum: Spotify’s SDN Internet Router (SIR). Servers/Hardware. Finally, you might find the VMware Virtual SAN 6.2 Virtualization.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Network Open Source 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 2, 2017

Servers/Hardware. I just noticed this article about using Nova flavor extra-specs to pass QoS data down to the virtualization layer. Here’s a walkthrough to install Arch Linux on VirtualBox. Virtualization. Thinking of virtualizing Linux on Hyper-V? What’s that? You haven’t heard of PowerNSX before?

Linux 60

Linux Devops Open Source Virtualization 60

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). Servers/Hardware. Micro-segmentation is one of those terms (like SDN, cloud, DevOps, etc.)

Devops 60

Devops Vmware Storage Open Source 60

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 28, 2016

The rise of Linux in importance in the networking industry continues, with Arista announcing enhancements to Arista EOS to support—among other things—Docker containers. As a partial counterpoint to the increased use/visibility of Linux in the networking industry, check out Ivan’s take on Dell’s OS10 announcement. Servers/Hardware.

Vmware 60

Vmware Open Source Linux Devops 60

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 7, 2016

His journey started in June 2014 as a result of the Microsoft announcement regarding support for Linux and Kubernetes on Azure—this really indicated a shift in the industry. He highly recommends using OS X on Apple hardware (he bought a used MacBook Pro, including SSD, for less than 300 euros). Show Notes. Cassandra and Neo4j.

Devops 60

Devops Engineering Conference Operating Systems 60

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 27, 2019

Servers/Hardware. Geert Baeke walks readers through deploying AKS with Nginx, External DNS, the Helm Operator, and Flux (all using an Azure DevOps pipeline, if I read the article correctly). Virtualization. I recently spotted Multipass , a virtualization solution for working with Linux instances. Networking.

Open Source 60

Open Source Vmware Authentication Storage 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 7, 2014

Craig Matsumoto of SDN Central helps highlight a recent (and fairly significant) development in networking protocols—the submission of the Generic Network Virtualization Encapsulation (Geneve) proposal to the IETF. Servers/Hardware. Overall, this is a quick but worthy read if you are trying to get started in this space.

Virtualization 60

Virtualization Hardware Intel Vmware 60

Scott Lowe

MAY 25, 2018

Also, a quick note that I removed the “Servers/Hardware” and “Storage” sections this time around, as I didn’t have any useful content to share. Ben Piper shares an example of automating Cumulus Linux with Ansible. Virtualization. DevOps was link-bait (click-bait?), Battleship over BGP?

Devops 60

Devops Hardware Resources Cloud 60

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

Servers/Hardware. Jorge Castro shares some informal notes on using Clear Linux as an everyday DevOps/cloud-native/Kubernetes client. Virtualization. The recent announcement of their GraphQL-based Network Query Engine (NQE)—more information is available in this blog post —is also pretty interesting to me.

Network 60

Network Resources Devops Vmware 60

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 29, 2016

Andrey Khomyakov shares some information on automating the setup of whitebox switches running Cumulus Linux in part 2 of this series on learning network automation. Servers/Hardware. Alpine Linux 3.5 This is notable (for me, at least) primarily because a growing number of Docker images are based on Alpine Linux.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Open Source Data Center 60

Scott Lowe

MAY 12, 2016

Servers/Hardware. Nick Janetakis discusses some of the differences it’s made for some of his Docker images to switch to using Alpine Linux as the base (instead of the more common Ubuntu or Debian base images). Virtualization. It’s a good post, well worth reading (in my opinion). Nothing this time around. Maybe next time?

Vmware 60

Vmware Windows Network Agile 60

Scott Lowe

JULY 14, 2015

Want to know a bit more about how OVN (Open Virtual Network) plans to integrate support for containers? Servers/Hardware. Although slanted toward Network Functions Virtualization (NFV), this is a good article about why open source—and OpenStack, in particular—isn’t necessarily “free.”. Virtualization. Networking.

Vmware 60

Vmware Devops Virtualization Network 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 20, 2020

This blending of “traditional” network engineering with containers, Linux, and DevOps tooling is how Matt is setting new trends and directions for the networking industry. Servers/Hardware. Robert Guske has a three-part series on running Linux development desktops with VMware Horizon ( part 1 , part 2 , and part 3 ).

Linux 60

Linux Vmware Authentication Storage 60

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 10, 2015

has a great blog series going called “Hey, I can DevOps my Network too!” Servers/Hardware. This article provides a good introductory overview of Linux iptables commands for configuring host-based firewall rules on your Linux systems. Virtualization. I hope you find something useful here! Networking. Larry Smith Jr.

Firewall 60

Firewall Windows Linux Architecture 60

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

Matt Oswalt recently wrapped up his 3-part “DevOps for Networking” series. tech preview of virtual networks for Docker. The “gotcha” is that these software stacks haven’t been written yet, so the idea of repurposing hardware from switch to firewall to load balancer is still a bit of a unicorn. Servers/Hardware.

Open Source 60

Open Source Vmware Network IBM 60