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 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). Russell Pope at Kovarus recently wrote about using security groups to manage the VMware NSX distributed firewall.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Network Open Source 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. Networking.

Open Source 60

Open Source Vmware Authentication Storage 60

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 14, 2016

It seems clear to me that distributed storage systems are going to be the de facto way to build storage systems moving forward, which obviously has significant implications for networking, compute, power, and environmental factors. Dwayne Sinclair (an NSX SE at VMware) has a write-up on what micro-segmentation is not.

Vmware 60

Vmware Devops Storage Linux 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. I like this post by Massimo Re Ferre’ on DevOps for Dummies. GitHub would be a good way. Hint, hint.).

Vmware 60

Vmware Open Source Linux Devops 60

Scott Lowe

JUNE 18, 2017

Colin Lynch shares some details on his journey with VMware NSX (so far). I wouldn’t take this information as gospel, but here’s a breakdown of some of the IPv6 support available in VMware NSX. 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

Colin Lynch shares some details on his journey with VMware NSX (so far). I wouldn’t take this information as gospel, but here’s a breakdown of some of the IPv6 support available in VMware NSX. 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

It seems clear to me that distributed storage systems are going to be the de facto way to build storage systems moving forward, which obviously has significant implications for networking, compute, power, and environmental factors. Dwayne Sinclair (an NSX SE at VMware) has a write-up on what micro-segmentation is not.

Devops 60

Devops Vmware Storage Open Source 60

Scott Lowe

JULY 14, 2015

Michael Armstrong, an SE for VMware in the UK, has a write-up on how to configure DHCP Relay in NSX 6.1. Cormac Hogan recently started spending some time with VMware Integrated OpenStack (VIO), and shared some of the initial “lessons learned” on this post about “adventures in VIO.” Operating Systems/Applications.

Vmware 60

Vmware Devops Virtualization Network 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. 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. Panagiotis Georgiadis explains how to enable PSP (Pod Security Policies) with Traefik.

Network 60

Network Resources Devops Vmware 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 16, 2017

Colin Lynch shares some details on his journey with VMware NSX (so far). I wouldn’t take this information as gospel, but here’s a breakdown of some of the IPv6 support available in VMware NSX. Operating Systems/Applications. Servers/Hardware. Career/Soft Skills.

Windows 60

Windows Virtualization 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

MARCH 7, 2014

Jointly authored by VMware, Microsoft, Red Hat, and Intel, this new protocol proposal attempts to bring together the strengths of the various network virtualization encapsulation protocols out there today (VXLAN, STT, NVGRE). .” Operating Systems/Applications. You can get more details from the Netronome press release.

Virtualization 60

Virtualization Hardware Intel Vmware 60

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. Nothing this time around. Maybe next time? Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Virtualization.

Vmware 60

Vmware Windows Network Agile 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. Interesting. Technology Short Take #25.

Storage 108

Storage Vmware WAN Virtualization 108

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

Hardware 60

Hardware Devops Network Vmware 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 2, 2017

Operating Systems/Applications. I really enjoyed this article by Evgeny Zislis on DevOps transformation using Theory of Constraints. I’m including it here in the “Career/Soft Skills” section because I think the four questions listed in this article apply to all IT professionals, not just those in “DevOps” roles. (Of

Linux 60

Linux Devops Open Source Virtualization 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. Operating Systems/Applications. Networking. Virtualization.

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. I hope you find something useful here! Networking. Larry Smith Jr.

Firewall 60

Firewall Windows Linux Architecture 60