Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Over the last few weeks, I’ve been collecting articles I wanted to share with readers on major areas in technology: networking, security, storage, virtualization, cloud computing, and OSes/applications. Welcome to Technology Short Take #165! Also see the link to the newer article the author wrote as a follow-up.

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Programming Policies Network Cloud 96

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

Sayli Karmarkar and Vinay Shah of Netflix describe Winston , “an event-driven diagnostic and remediation platform.” Basically, in a nutshell, Winston executes runbooks of automation code in response to events. Operating Systems/Applications. What does that mean? Have a look at the article for more details.

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Linux Network Virtualization IPv6 60

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Rory McCune writes about a CVE in the Linux kernel that could allow for container escape in Kubernetes. Teri Radichel draws some connections between recent events in the Ukraine and cybersecurity. It’s a shame the site doesn’t appear to have an RSS/Atom feed… Operating Systems/Applications. Yes, please.

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Storage Hardware Policies Open Source 79

Scott Lowe

MARCH 1, 2019

In any event, here you are—I hope you find something useful for you! VyOS is an open source Linux-based network operating system.). Operating Systems/Applications. Networking. Daniel Dib has a great article on how network engineers need to evolve. Go check out part 2. Servers/Hardware. Virtualization.

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Operating Systems Authentication Network Open Source 60

Linux Academy

JULY 30, 2019

Our free cloud training allows students to begin developing their Linux and Cloud skills. Visit the Linux Academy Booth at Black Hat or find Ell at any of the other Hacker Summer Camp events! How to Get a Linux Job. This course dives into LXC (Linux Containers) and its container manager, LXD. Become a Master.

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Course Linux Devops Cloud 12

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 22, 2018

Operating Systems/Applications. Mikhail Shilkov provides a great overview of Azure Durable Functions and how they fit into the bigger picture of microservices architectures, serverless platforms, and event-driven models. Dave Taylor provides s ome tips for configuring VMware Fusion for Linux usage. Career/Soft Skills.

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Vmware Linux Hardware Case Study 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 17, 2018

Scott McCarty explains sVirt and how it’s used to isolate Linux containers. And in the event you’re not really familiar with the various autoscaling aspects of Kubernetes (of which cluster autoscaling is just one), this article by Mohamed Ahmed provides a 101-level overview. Operating Systems/Applications.

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Load Balancer Storage Network Linux 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 8, 2014

Welcome to Technology Short Take #43, another episode in my irregularly-published series of articles, links, and thoughts from around the web, focusing on data center technologies like networking, virtualization, storage, and cloud computing. Operating Systems/Applications. Here’s hoping you find something useful.

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Vmware Linux Virtualization Network 60

Scott Lowe

JUNE 29, 2016

In the event you accidentally locked yourself out of vCenter using NSX’s distributed firewall, this post by Roie Ben Haim provides a workaround for getting yourself out of this pickle. Operating Systems/Applications. This is a highly technical article on scheduling in the Linux kernel , but it’s well worth reading.

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Linux Network Hardware 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. It’s a good post, well worth reading (in my opinion). Servers/Hardware. Nothing this time around.

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Vmware Windows Network Agile 60

Scott Lowe

MAY 22, 2015

Welcome to Technology Short Take #51, another collection of posts and links about key data center technologies like networking, virtualization, cloud management, and applications/operating systems. Here’s one way , using Ravello Systems. Flavio Leitner has a nice article comparing OVS internal ports with Linux veth devices.

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Vmware Network Virtualization IPv6 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 10, 2015

I highly recommend you read the entire post, but in short the five skills Matt recommends are software skills (which includes configuration management and software development tools like Git ), Linux, deep protocol knowledge, hypervisor and container networking, and IPv6. Operating Systems/Applications. What does this mean?

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Vmware Linux Hardware Software Development 60

Scott Lowe

APRIL 24, 2015

It’s important to note that these security enhancements don’t really represent “net new” functionality but rather reflect existing Linux security constructs now being exposed and usable by Docker. look no further—Jad El-Zein has posted a ton of content generated by an online “install and config” event he held right at the end of 2014.

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Vmware Storage Firewall Network 60

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

In this post, I’ve collected a few links on various data center technologies, news, events, and trends. Operating Systems/Applications. Is VMware headed to turning VSAN into a generic storage platform that is no longer tied to vSphere? Welcome to Technology Short Take #56! I hope you find something useful here.

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Vmware Network Load Balancer Linux 60

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 23, 2013

This post is a bit older, but still useful in the event if you’re interested in learning more about OpenFlow and OpenFlow controllers. Operating Systems/Applications. Visit the site for more information on virtualization, servers, storage, and other enterprise technologies. I hope you find something useful.

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Vmware Network Virtualization Storage 60

CTOvision

MAY 11, 2015

The Mesosphere datacenter operating system helps you organize the machines in your datacenter as if they are one big computer. Mesosphere provides a new kind of operating system. The DCOS (Datacenter Operating System) spans all the servers in a physical or cloud-based datacenter, and run on top of any Linux distribution.

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Operating Systems Linux System Applications 150

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 15, 2013

Microsoft’s ‘Cloud Operating System’ 218,000 Servers in Microsoft Data Centers? If they ran Linux, maybe they wouldn’t have to run so many servers. Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure. Events Calendar. Microsoft » Popular. By: Rich Miller July 15th, 2013.

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Data Center Microsoft Data Disaster Recovery 276

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 23, 2020

” Ivan Pepelnjak attempts to answer the question, “How much do I need to know about Linux networking?” ” Speaking of Linux networking…Marek Majkowski of Cloudflare digs deep into conntrack , used for stateful firewalling functionality. Operating Systems/Applications. Servers/Hardware.

Open Source 60

Open Source Vmware Disaster Recovery Linux 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 5, 2013

Operating Systems/Applications. Although these posts are storage-related, the real focus is on how the storage stack is implemented in a virtualization solution, which is why I’m putting them in this section. Visit the site for more information on virtualization, servers, storage, and other enterprise technologies.

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Virtualization Storage Vmware Network 102

Scott Lowe

APRIL 21, 2016

Operating Systems/Applications. This Yelp Engineering blog post talks about one of these unintended side effects (processes running as PID 1 are treated differently by the Linux kernel). is out (get it here ), marking the first LTS release from Canonical that leverages systemd as its init system. via VMware Photon OS TP2.

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Vmware Linux Hardware Network 60

Scott Lowe

JUNE 11, 2014

Operating Systems/Applications. Linux Journal has a nice multi-page write-up on Docker containers that might be useful if you are still looking to understand Docker’s basic building blocks. Open vStorage compares itself to VMware VSAN, but supporting multiple storage backends and supporting multiple hypervisors.

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Vmware Storage Network Virtualization 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). First, here’s a workaround to the fact that vCA doesn’t (yet) do cloud-init, which makes injecting SSH keys into Linux instances a bit difficult. Networking.

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Open Source Vmware Network IBM 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

I’m back home in Denver after spending a few days in San Francisco at Intel Developer Forum (IDF) 2013, so I thought I’d take a few minutes to sit down and share a summary of the event and my thoughts. Overall, I enjoyed the event and found it quite useful. I wasn’t even aware that Intel was doing cache acceleration.

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