Scott Lowe

APRIL 15, 2022

Although Linux is often considered to be superior to Windows and macOS with regard to security, it is not without its own security flaws. I, personally, would posit that Linux can be more secure than other platforms, but it requires proper configuration and can still be undone by a loose nut behind the keyboard. Virtualization.

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Linux Load Balancer IPv6 Licensing 74

Scott Lowe

MARCH 17, 2016

At DevOps Networking Forum 2016, I had the opportunity to share a presentation on some Linux networking options. If you’d like to see the presentation, it’s available on Slideshare and Speakerdeck. If you’d like to re-create the demo environment, check out the presentation’s GitHub repository. Have fun reading!

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Vmware Linux Network Open Source 60

Linux Academy

MARCH 26, 2019

By adding free cloud training to our Community Membership, students have the opportunity to develop their Linux and Cloud skills further. Each month, we will kick off our community content with a live study group allowing members of the Linux Academy community to come together and share their insights in order to learn from one another.

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Linux Course Devops Big Data 12

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

Weaver starts his presentation by talking about “how we got here”, discussing the various technological shifts that have affected the computing landscape over the years. This includes cgroups (the ability to control resource allocation/utilization), which is built into the Linux kernel. Docker Making Its Move.

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Virtualization Linux Intel Construction 100

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 27, 2019

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). I recently spotted Multipass , a virtualization solution for working with Linux instances. Michael Gasch shares his tmux setup. Career/Soft Skills.

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Open Source Vmware Authentication Storage 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. 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).

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Vmware Linux Open Source Data Center 60

Scott Lowe

JULY 14, 2015

You might also find it useful to review this OVN presentation from the recent OpenStack Summit in Vancouver. A video recording of the presentation is also available on YouTube. Thus, storage solutions for containers/containerized environments, while a bit sparse now, are likely to really start popping up very soon. Good stuff.

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Vmware Devops Virtualization Network 60

Scott Lowe

MAY 12, 2016

Per RFC 1925 , every old idea will be proposed again with a different name and a different presentation. 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). Operating Systems/Applications.

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Vmware Windows Network Agile 60

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 10, 2015

has a great blog series going called “Hey, I can DevOps my Network too!” This article provides a good introductory overview of Linux iptables commands for configuring host-based firewall rules on your Linux systems. In any case, if you’re running KVM with OVS, you might find some of the scripts that Ed presents useful.

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Windows Firewall Linux Architecture 60