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. VMware recently GA’d version 6.2 I’ll try to correct that for the next one.

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Vmware Linux Network Open Source 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. Dwayne Sinclair (an NSX SE at VMware) has a write-up on what micro-segmentation is not.

Devops 60

Devops Vmware Storage Open Source 60

Scott Lowe

APRIL 15, 2022

Xavier Avrillier walks readers through using Antrea (a Kubernetes CNI built on top of Open vSwitch—a topic I’ve touched on a time or two) to provide on-premise load balancing in Kubernetes. Servers/Hardware. Cabling is hardware, right? Steven Bright shows how to deploy Salt minions automatically using VMware Tools.

Linux 74

Linux Load Balancer IPv6 Licensing 74

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 29, 2016

Servers/Hardware. Customers don’t care about data centers, or DevOps pipelines, or toolkits…they just care about being able to do whatever it is you offer (buy stuff, consume a service, whatever). Michael Preston shares his thoughts on containers in a post titled “A VMware guy’s perspective on containers.” Way to go, Daniel!

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Open Source Data Center 60

Scott Lowe

JULY 14, 2015

Michael Armstrong, an SE for VMware in the UK, has a write-up on how to configure DHCP Relay in NSX 6.1. 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.”. Running vSphere 6? You’re done.

Vmware 60

Vmware Devops Virtualization Network 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 2, 2017

Skydive is (in the project’s own words) an “open source real-time network topology and protocols analyzer.” Servers/Hardware. Here’s a list of some open source Docker-related tools that developers may find useful. I really enjoyed this article by Evgeny Zislis on DevOps transformation using Theory of Constraints.

Linux 60

Linux Devops Open Source Virtualization 60

Scott Lowe

APRIL 8, 2013

Servers/Hardware. He describes cloud as the synthesis of many different forms of innovation within IT , pulling together things like open source, virtualization, distributed programming, NoSQL, DevOps/NoOps, distributed teams, dynamic languages, and Big Data (among others). Mounting guest disk images on the host?

Storage 111

Storage Vmware WAN Virtualization 111

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

Matt Oswalt recently wrapped up his 3-part “DevOps for Networking” series. Jason Edelman has posted a self-compiled list of networking projects that are open source ; this is a useful list, so thanks for compiling it Jason! This isn’t to say that they aren’t freely available, just not available under an open source license.).

Open Source 60

Open Source Vmware Network IBM 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. William Lam provides a sneak peek at deploying Tanzu Kubernetes Grid on vSphere and VMware Cloud on AWS. Good stuff here!

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. If you’re interested in a bit more detail on the components and architecture of VMware’s newly-open source Photon Controller (here’s the GitHub repo ), check out this blog post. I hope you find something useful here!

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Windows Firewall Linux Architecture 60