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1 Year Anniversary: Linux Academy + Jupiter Broadcasting

Linux Academy

September 12th marks one year since Jupiter Broadcasting was announced to be joining forces with Linux Academy in a team effort to give back to the community. Jupiter Broadcasting has been creating your favorite podcasts on Linux, open source, and free software since the term “podcast” existed.

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Technology Short Take 136

Scott Lowe

This article by Joshua Fox outlines how and when to use each of the various types of firewalls offered by AWS. The popular open source cryptography library known as Bouncy Castle has uncovered a severe authentication bypass vulnerability. Linux may be coming to the Apple M1 chip. Compute safely.

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Top Ten Ways Not To Sink the Kubernetes Ship

Linux Academy

It is important to use security tooling such as OpenSCAP, the open source version of the Security Content Automation Protocol, to harden virtual machine images prior to their deployment in virtual private clouds. These policies, like any firewall, provide an invaluable means of limiting attack vectors both inside and outside the VPC.

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Technology Short Take #63

Scott Lowe

At DevOps Networking Forum 2016, I had the opportunity to share a presentation on some Linux networking options. Matt Oswalt recently unveiled (and open sourced) a framework called ToDD, which stands for “Testing on Demand: Distributed”. You may also find this (related) article on memory inside Linux containers to be helpful.

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DockerCon 2016 Vendor Meetings

Scott Lowe

Plumgrid is one of the primary commercial sponsors behind the IO Visor project , a Linux Foundation project, which leverages the extended Berkeley Packet Filter (eBPF) subsystem in the Linux kernel. MidoNet is an open source, overlay-based network virtualization solution. Project Calico. Pricing is capacity-based.

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Technology Short Take #79

Scott Lowe

Skydive is (in the project’s own words) an “open source real-time network topology and protocols analyzer.” Tony Sangha took PowerNSX (a set of PowerShell cmdlets for interacting with NSX) and created a tool to help document the NSX Distributed Firewall configuration. Here’s a walkthrough to install Arch Linux on VirtualBox.

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What is Virtual Network Computing (VNC)?

Dataconomy

and the open-source community. This feature is particularly useful in environments where only HTTP traffic is allowed, such as in a web proxy or firewall. The ability to access and control a computer using any operating system that supports VNC, such as Windows, Linux, macOS, and more.