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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. Operating Systems/Applications. Linux may be coming to the Apple M1 chip.

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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. Vulnerabilities at the operating system level may be exploited by rogue container workloads if not hardened.

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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.

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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”. Operating Systems/Applications. Have fun reading! Networking.

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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. Operating Systems/Applications. What’s that?

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Technology Short Take #46

Scott Lowe

It was good to read this post on Cumulus Linux first impressions by Jeremy Stretch. I’m a fan of Cumulus, but I’m admittedly a Linux guy (see here ) so you might say I’m a bit biased. Jeremy is a “hard-core” networking professional, and so hearing his feedback on Cumulus Linux was, in my opinion, useful.

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Technology Short Take #70

Scott Lowe

VMware recently announced Open Hardware Management Services (OHMS) , a project intended to help manage servers and switches in a software-defined data center (SDDC) context. Operating Systems/Applications. I’m particularly encouraged by 2 things about OHMS. What will happen when you combine GPUs and persistent storage?

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