Scott Lowe

JANUARY 28, 2016

Granted, it’s a VMware post, so it may gloss over some details, but it’s still a decent look at what’s possible when you take the abstractions and APIs offered by a solution like NSX. Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization. I like this post by Massimo Re Ferre’ on DevOps for Dummies. Hint, hint.).

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Open Source Devops 60

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 27, 2019

Teammate Alex Brand has a look at VMware’s new OVS-based CNI plugin, Antrea. 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.

Open Source 60

Open Source Vmware Authentication Storage 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). Dwayne Sinclair (an NSX SE at VMware) has a write-up on what micro-segmentation is not. Operating Systems/Applications.

Vmware 60

Vmware Devops Storage Linux 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 16, 2017

Sjors Robroek describes his nested NSX-T lab that also includes some virtualized network equipment (virtualized Arista switches). Colin Lynch shares some details on his journey with VMware NSX (so far). Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization. Servers/Hardware. Here’s a great way.

Windows 60

Windows Virtualization Devops Vmware 60

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 28, 2016

Granted, it’s a VMware post, so it may gloss over some details, but it’s still a decent look at what’s possible when you take the abstractions and APIs offered by a solution like NSX. Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization. I like this post by Massimo Re Ferre’ on DevOps for Dummies. Hint, hint.).

Vmware 60

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

Devops 60

Devops Vmware Storage Open Source 60

Scott Lowe

JULY 14, 2015

Want to know a bit more about how OVN (Open Virtual Network) plans to integrate support for containers? Michael Armstrong, an SE for VMware in the UK, has a write-up on how to configure DHCP Relay in NSX 6.1. No worries, Emad Younis has a write-up on using Ravello to try out VMware Integrated OpenStack. (If Virtualization.

Vmware 60

Vmware Devops Virtualization Network 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

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. This next round of hardware offloads seems targeted at network virtualization and related technologies. Security.

Virtualization 60

Virtualization Hardware Intel Vmware 60

Scott Lowe

APRIL 15, 2022

Ajeet Singh Raina shares a list of the top 200 Kubernetes tools for DevOps engineers. Operating Systems/Applications. Steven Bright shows how to deploy Salt minions automatically using VMware Tools. Virtualization. Fatima Silveira has a good article on using the Kubernetes Horizontal Pod Autoscaler.

Linux 74

Linux Load Balancer IPv6 Licensing 74

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

Christopher Damerau explains how to use Ansible to manage VMware resources. Operating Systems/Applications. Jorge Castro shares some informal notes on using Clear Linux as an everyday DevOps/cloud-native/Kubernetes client. Virtualization. There’s some handy tips/ideas in here. Career/Soft Skills.

Network 60

Network Resources Devops Vmware 60

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 29, 2016

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. could make RDP connections to modern Windows systems.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Open Source Data Center 60

Scott Lowe

APRIL 8, 2013

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

MAY 12, 2016

In the event you’re interested in an idea of how much latency the use of in-kernel hypervisor firewalling (such as that offered by VMware NSX) adds, have a look at this article by Sean Howard. Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization. Nothing this time around. Maybe next time? Cloud Computing/Cloud Management.

Vmware 60

Vmware Windows Network Agile 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 2, 2017

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? 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

AUGUST 26, 2017

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. It does seem, though, that Kubernetes deployment tools abound. Here’s how to run Steam in a systemd-nspawn container.

Hardware 60

Hardware Devops Network Vmware 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. William Lam provides a sneak peek at deploying Tanzu Kubernetes Grid on vSphere and VMware Cloud on AWS. Operating Systems/Applications.

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. Operating Systems/Applications.

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!” 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. I hope you find something useful here! Networking.

Windows 60

Windows Firewall Linux Architecture 60