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

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. Virtualization. What happens to submarine cables when there are massive events, like a volcanic eruption? This is such an invaluable resource.

Linux 74

Linux Load Balancer IPv6 Licensing 74

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

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

AUGUST 16, 2017

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

Windows 60

Windows Virtualization Devops Vmware 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

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. Virtualization. The investment in your family will pay off in later years, trust me.

Open Source 60

Open Source Vmware Authentication Storage 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. Introduction to Migrating Databases and Virtual Machines to Google Cloud Platform — This course covers the various issues of migrating databases and virtual machines to Google Cloud Platform.

Linux 60

Linux Course Big Data Devops 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. Virtualization. At first I thought this article on SRE vs. DevOps was link-bait (click-bait?)

Devops 60

Devops Hardware Resources Cloud 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. Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization. Thinking of virtualizing Linux on Hyper-V? 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

JANUARY 28, 2016

Servers/Hardware. Jon was used nested virtualization in his home lab, so seeing how he mapped out the interplay between VLANs and virtual network may be helpful for others who are considering a similar setup. Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization. CoreOS rkt is coming along nicely; version 0.15.0

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Open Source 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. Virtualization. Patrick Kennedy over at Serve The Home shares the story of the Ultra EPYC AMD-powered Sun Ultra 24 workstation. Career/Soft Skills.

Network 60

Network Resources 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. Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization. Have fun reading!

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Network Open Source 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. Virtualization. Here’s a great post with more details on concerns over randomness in virtual machines. Start with part 1, which is here.

Vmware 60

Vmware Open Source Intel Applications 60

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 28, 2016

Servers/Hardware. Jon was used nested virtualization in his home lab, so seeing how he mapped out the interplay between VLANs and virtual network may be helpful for others who are considering a similar setup. Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization. CoreOS rkt is coming along nicely; version 0.15.0

Vmware 60

Vmware Open Source Linux Devops 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.”. Operating Systems/Applications.

Vmware 60

Vmware Devops Virtualization Network 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. Virtualization.

Hardware 60

Hardware Devops Network Vmware 60

Scott Lowe

MAY 12, 2016

Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization. Jon Benedict has three posts (so far) on deploying Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV) 3.6 ( part 1 , part 2 , and part 3 ). 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

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

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. Virtualization.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Open Source Data Center 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. Virtualization. Good stuff here! Nothing this time around.

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. tech preview of virtual networks for Docker. Servers/Hardware.

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. Virtualization. Networking.

Firewall 60

Firewall Windows Linux Architecture 60