Scott Lowe

JANUARY 7, 2016

Bart’s view is that a full-stack engineer knows about operations, the hardware stack (compute, storage, network), the software (network, operating system [OS], management, logging), and most importantly knows how to “code” an immutable infrastructure. Microsoft and/or VMware , but do not start here (start elsewhere).

Devops 60

Devops Engineering Conference Operating Systems 60

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 7, 2016

Bart’s view is that a full-stack engineer knows about operations, the hardware stack (compute, storage, network), the software (network, operating system [OS], management, logging), and most importantly knows how to “code” an immutable infrastructure. Microsoft and/or VMware , but do not start here (start elsewhere).

Devops 60

Devops Engineering Conference Operating Systems 60

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 27, 2023

Servers/Hardware What do you think of the ThinkPhone ? Operating Systems/Applications Dewan Ahmed has a great run-down on options for documentation-as-code. Career/Soft Skills Ioannis Moustakis shares 44 books for DevOps, site reliability engineering (SRE), and cloud engineers. Read his post for full details.

Programming 90

Programming Open Source Cloud Devops 90

Linux Academy

APRIL 30, 2019

LPI Linux Essentials — This course teaches the basic concepts of processes, programs, and the components of the Linux operating system. DevOps Essentials – This course provides a basic introduction to the concept of DevOps. It also introduces the student to the close relationship between DevOps and the cloud.

Linux 113

Linux Course Big Data Devops 113

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Servers/Hardware. Maarten Van Driessen takes readers through using an Azure DevOps pipeline with Packer to build server templates. Operating Systems/Applications. Vikas Choudhary discusses Istio’s Secure Naming; that is, the name given to services and the Subject Alternative Name (SAN) put on the X.509

Cloud 87

Cloud Tools Applications Policies 87

Scott Lowe

APRIL 15, 2022

Servers/Hardware. Cabling is hardware, right? Ajeet Singh Raina shares a list of the top 200 Kubernetes tools for DevOps engineers. Operating Systems/Applications. What happens to submarine cables when there are massive events, like a volcanic eruption? Levent Ogut takes a deep dive into Kubernetes init containers.

Linux 74

Linux Load Balancer IPv6 Licensing 74

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.)

Vmware 60

Vmware Devops Storage Linux 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. Operating Systems/Applications. At first I thought this article on SRE vs. DevOps was link-bait (click-bait?), Career/Soft Skills.

Devops 60

Devops Hardware Resources Cloud 60

Scott Lowe

JUNE 18, 2017

Servers/Hardware. Here’s an interesting article on the role that virtualization is playing in the network functions virtualization (NFV) space now that ARM hardware is growing increasingly powerful. Operating Systems/Applications. I really enjoyed this article by Jon Hall on the Andon cord and ITSM’s DevOps challenge.

Windows 60

Windows Vmware Virtualization Linux 60

Scott Lowe

JUNE 18, 2017

Servers/Hardware. Here’s an interesting article on the role that virtualization is playing in the network functions virtualization (NFV) space now that ARM hardware is growing increasingly powerful. Operating Systems/Applications. I really enjoyed this article by Jon Hall on the Andon cord and ITSM’s DevOps challenge.

Windows 60

Windows Vmware Virtualization Linux 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

Linux Academy

APRIL 29, 2019

LPI Linux Essentials — This course teaches the basic concepts of processes, programs, and the components of the Linux operating system. DevOps Essentials – This course provides a basic introduction to the concept of DevOps. It also introduces the student to the close relationship between DevOps and the cloud.

Linux 60

Linux Course Big Data Devops 60

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. Jorge Castro shares some informal notes on using Clear Linux as an everyday DevOps/cloud-native/Kubernetes client. Patrick Kennedy over at Serve The Home shares the story of the Ultra EPYC AMD-powered Sun Ultra 24 workstation.

Network 60

Network Resources Devops Vmware 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). Operating Systems/Applications. The investment in your family will pay off in later years, trust me. Networking.

Open Source 60

Open Source Vmware Authentication Storage 60

CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 4, 2023

Now I have consciously tapped into the R&D space, product development and the DevOps segment. Once I saw the alignment to being CIO, I ramped up on emerging technologies, novel product development and solutioning systems. Over the years, I’ve had the opportunity to grow across multiple domains and transition every few years.

Transportation 87

Transportation Training Software Software 87

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 16, 2017

Servers/Hardware. Here’s an interesting article on the role that virtualization is playing in the network functions virtualization (NFV) space now that ARM hardware is growing increasingly powerful. Operating Systems/Applications. Career/Soft Skills.

Windows 60

Windows Virtualization Devops Vmware 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 7, 2014

Servers/Hardware. Another interesting tidbit regarding hardware: it seems as if we are now seeing the emergence of another round of “hardware offloads.” This next round of hardware offloads seems targeted at network virtualization and related technologies. Operating Systems/Applications.

Virtualization 60

Virtualization Hardware Intel Vmware 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 2, 2017

Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. I really enjoyed this article by Evgeny Zislis on DevOps transformation using Theory of Constraints. Of course, the idea of a “DevOps” role is a topic unto itself, but I’ll leave that for some future article.). What’s that? You haven’t heard of PowerNSX before?

Linux 60

Linux Devops Open Source Virtualization 60

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 28, 2016

Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. I like this post by Massimo Re Ferre’ on DevOps for Dummies. The term “DevOps” has been thrown around by so many different people in so many different contexts that it’s now incredibly difficult to understand what is meant when someone says “DevOps”.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Open Source Devops 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. Operating Systems/Applications. I’ll try to correct that for the next one.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Network Open Source 60

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 28, 2016

Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. I like this post by Massimo Re Ferre’ on DevOps for Dummies. The term “DevOps” has been thrown around by so many different people in so many different contexts that it’s now incredibly difficult to understand what is meant when someone says “DevOps”.

Vmware 60

Vmware Open Source Linux Devops 60

Scott Lowe

MAY 3, 2019

Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. This article on building DevOps pipelines with open source tools was exactly what a beginner (to CI/CD) needed. Personally, I could’ve done without the little product advertisement at the end, but that’s just me.

Vmware 60

Vmware Open Source Intel Applications 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 26, 2017

Servers/Hardware. Werner Ruegg has a post on an alternative hardware solution for vSphere home labs. Operating Systems/Applications. Jeff Geerling—author of Ansible for DevOps —has a post on how various Ansible configuration files may conflict with one another.

Hardware 60

Hardware Devops Network Vmware 60

Scott Lowe

JULY 14, 2015

Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. While many folks think “DevOps = Technology,” what they’re overlooking is the cultural, personal, and procedural aspects. There’s a lot more too, so be sure to check out his site. Nothing this time around, but I’ll stay tuned for items to include next time! Good stuff.

Vmware 60

Vmware Devops Virtualization Network 60

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). Operating Systems/Applications. could make RDP connections to modern Windows systems. Nothing this time around!

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Open Source Data Center 60

Scott Lowe

MAY 12, 2016

Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. The key takeaway (one of my Twitter followers called it the “money quote” ) is that real organizations shouldn’t trade off agility for safety, and trading agility for safety is NOT what DevOps is about. It’s a good post, well worth reading (in my opinion). Maybe next time?

Vmware 60

Vmware Windows Network Agile 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). Operating Systems/Applications.

Storage 111

Storage Vmware WAN Virtualization 111

CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 27, 2023

The courses are designed to be completed in succession, starting with the Apple Device Support course, which focuses on the skills and expertise you’ll need as a help desk professional, technical coordinator, or service provider for an organization that relies on Apple hardware and software.

SCRUM 133

SCRUM Project Management Course Network 133

ForAllSecure

APRIL 30, 2020

David Brumley: A typical DevOp shop would use it just part of their normal software development life cycle. As soon as they pushed code -- and we typically trigger a build system -- then they'd push that to Mayhem to find those flaws automatically. Dennis Fischer: That's an interesting model. You know how to do it.

Security 52

Security Software Software Development 52

ForAllSecure

APRIL 30, 2020

David Brumley: A typical DevOp shop would use it just part of their normal software development life cycle. As soon as they pushed code -- and we typically trigger a build system -- then they'd push that to Mayhem to find those flaws automatically. Dennis Fischer: That's an interesting model. You know how to do it.

Security 52

Security Software Software Development 52

ForAllSecure

APRIL 30, 2020

David Brumley: A typical DevOp shop would use it just part of their normal software development life cycle. As soon as they pushed code -- and we typically trigger a build system -- then they'd push that to Mayhem to find those flaws automatically. Dennis Fischer: That's an interesting model. You know how to do it.

Security 52

Security Software Software Development 52

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. Operating Systems/Applications. Good stuff here! Nothing this time around. which brings support for v1alpha3).

Linux 60

Linux Vmware Authentication Storage 60

CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Budget : Beyond the licensing, hardware, delivery, installation, and training costs associated with the platform of choice, the team should also consider wider organizational implications, such as change management. The bottom and most fundamental layer is the hardware layer or infrastructure.

Examples 80

Examples Data Architecture Hardware 80

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

This time around, the content is a bit heavier on cloud management and applications/operating systems, but still lots of good content all the way around (I hope, anyway). Matt Oswalt recently wrapped up his 3-part “DevOps for Networking” series. Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. Networking.

Open Source 60

Open Source Vmware Network IBM 60

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 10, 2015

has a great blog series going called “Hey, I can DevOps my Network too!” Servers/Hardware. It’s a way to run Kubernetes (the container orchestration system) on top of Mesos (the cluster resource scheduler) as a native Mesos framework. Operating Systems/Applications. I hope you find something useful here!

Windows 60

Windows Firewall Linux Architecture 60