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

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

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

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

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. There’s some handy tips/ideas in here.

Network 60

Network Resources Devops Vmware 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. Students will get hands-on experience installing and configuring containers and thoughtfully selecting a persistent storage strategy. Courses Free in May.

Linux 60

Linux Course Big Data Devops 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 2, 2017

Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. Alan Renouf shows you how to retrieve NVMe storage device details using PowerCLI. I really enjoyed this article by Evgeny Zislis on DevOps transformation using Theory of Constraints. What’s that? You haven’t heard of PowerNSX before? See here.). That’s handy.

Linux 60

Linux Devops Open Source Virtualization 60

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. RegEx tester. Enough said. Career/Soft Skills.

Windows 60

Windows Virtualization Devops Vmware 60

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 28, 2016

Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. A lot of folks criticized Bryan’s viewpoint on unikernels, but he’s right—there is (right now) a dearth of operational tools for unikernels. I like this post by Massimo Re Ferre’ on DevOps for Dummies. CoreOS rkt is coming along nicely; version 0.15.0

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

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. Virtualization.

Storage 111

Storage Vmware WAN Virtualization 111

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 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. It’s the end of an era.

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. Nothing this time around. Virtualization.

Hardware 60

Hardware Devops Network Vmware 60

Scott Lowe

MAY 12, 2016

Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. Greg Schulz—who normally tends to focus on storage-related topics—has a post providing an overview of the Ubuntu 16.04 “Xenial Xerus” release. It’s a good post, well worth reading (in my opinion). Nothing this time around. Maybe next time? The script itself is on GitHub.

Vmware 60

Vmware Windows Network Agile 60

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 28, 2016

Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. A lot of folks criticized Bryan’s viewpoint on unikernels, but he’s right—there is (right now) a dearth of operational tools for unikernels. I like this post by Massimo Re Ferre’ on DevOps for Dummies. CoreOS rkt is coming along nicely; version 0.15.0

Vmware 60

Vmware Open Source Linux Devops 60

Scott Lowe

JULY 14, 2015

Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. Thus, storage solutions for containers/containerized environments, while a bit sparse now, are likely to really start popping up very soon. While many folks think “DevOps = Technology,” what they’re overlooking is the cultural, personal, and procedural aspects.

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. Operating Systems/Applications. You can also go get your fill of storage-related links from J Metz.

Linux 60

Linux Vmware Authentication Storage 60

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