Scott Lowe

AUGUST 27, 2021

Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. Austin Hughley for sticking it out through all the challenges and documenting how to use a Windows gaming PC as a (Linux) Docker host. Alex Ellis shares some information on how to use kubectl to access your private (Kubernetes) cluster. Plastic microchips ?

Linux 90

Linux Load Balancer Malware Virtualization 90

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 6, 2021

Here’s a quick look at using Envoy as a load balancer in Kubernetes. Eric Sloof shows readers how to use the “Applied To” feature in NSX-T to potentially improve resource utilization. Michael Kashin explains how he built a DIY (Do It Yourself) SD-WAN using Envoy and Wireguard. Servers/Hardware.

Open Source 60

Open Source Load Balancer WAN Architecture 60

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

The rise of the disaggregated network operating system (NOS) marches on: this time, it’s Big Switch Networks announcing expanded hardware support in Open Network Linux (ONL) , upon which its own NOS is based. Servers/Hardware. First, he shares how to install and configure the Puppet plugin for vRealize Automation.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Storage Load Balancer 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

Normally I’d put something like this in a different section, but this is as much a write-up on how to configure NSX-T correctly as it is about configuring Ingress objects in Kubernetes. Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. Jeff Geerling explains how to test your Ansible roles with Molecule.

Load Balancer 60

Load Balancer Cloud Applications Vmware 60

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

Continuing on that Envoy theme, you may find this article by Matt Klein—one of the primary authors of Envoy—helpful in understanding some of the concepts behind modern load balancing and proxying. Servers/Hardware. Ric Harvey shows how to automatically deploy Hugo updates using AWS CodeBuild. Good stuff!

Load Balancer 60

Load Balancer Operating Systems Intel Hardware 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 27, 2021

Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. Austin Hughley for sticking it out through all the challenges and documenting how to use a Windows gaming PC as a (Linux) Docker host. Alex Ellis shares some information on how to use kubectl to access your private (Kubernetes) cluster. Plastic microchips ?

Linux 60

Linux Load Balancer Malware Virtualization 60

Scott Lowe

APRIL 6, 2017

Servers/Hardware. Part 1 covers how to choose a Linux distribution, and part 2 discusses some security tips for installing Linux on your SysAdmin workstation. (Yes, Operating Systems/Applications. Ben Armstrong shows you how to use PowerShell to give your Windows server a proper fully-qualified domain name.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Storage Network 60

Scott Lowe

JUNE 8, 2018

Kamal Kyrala discusses a method for accessing Kubernetes Services without Ingress, NodePort, or load balancers. Servers/Hardware. What I found interesting is that the local NVMe storage is also hardware encrypted. Operating Systems/Applications. Why is this in the networking section? Career/Soft Skills.

Load Balancer 60

Load Balancer Vmware Storage Intel 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 17, 2018

Servers/Hardware. Scott McCarty explains sVirt and how it’s used to isolate Linux containers. Fellow Heptonian Chuck Ha walks through some Kubernetes logs to show how to use them to better understand the relationships between the various components. Operating Systems/Applications. It’s really good.

Load Balancer 60

Load Balancer Storage Network Linux 60

Scott Lowe

JUNE 21, 2019

Mohamad Alhussein shares information on how to add a floating static route to an NSX edge via the NSX REST API. Mircea Ulinic shows readers how to use salt-sproxy to take a different approach to network automation using Salt. I’m looking forward to seeing how NaaS evolves. Servers/Hardware. Networking. Cool stuff.

Network 60

Network Load Balancer Storage Applications 60

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 24, 2018

Viktor van den Berg writes on deploying NSX load balancers with vRA. Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. The Project Atomic blog shares how to use OCI image registries with Buildah. IPVLAN is a low-latency means of providing IP connectivity to containers. Nothing this time around, sorry!

Vmware 60

Vmware Load Balancer Network Open Source 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

Servers/Hardware. Alexander Holbreich has a write-up on how to install Kubernetes on Ubuntu. Operating Systems/Applications. John Kozej walks through how to configure vCenter HA using the NSX load balancer. Julia Evans has a good post on how to answer questions well. RIP Solaris.

Storage 60

Storage Vmware Load Balancer Network 60

All Things Distributed

MAY 8, 2012

s announcement of Amazon RDS for Microsoft SQL Server and.NET support for AWS Elastic Beanstalk marks another important step in our commitment to increase the flexibility for AWS customers to use the choice of operating system, programming language, development tools and database software that meet their application requirements.

Development 116

Development Windows Disaster Recovery Licensing 116

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 17, 2015

He describes how to set it up (on both VirtualBox and Digital Ocean) and provides some high-level performance information as well. If you’d like to play around with Cumulus Linux but don’t have a compatible hardware switch, Cumulus VX is the answer. Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Architecture Hardware 60

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

Russell Bryant has a couple great articles on OVN— how to test OVN’s “EZ Bake” release with DevStack as well as an article on implementing OpenStack security groups using OVN ACLs (which in turn leverage the integration between Open vSwitch and the Linux kernel’s conntrack module). Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications.

Vmware 60

Vmware Network Load Balancer Linux 60

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 5, 2012

Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. William Lam shows you how to use ovftool to copy VMs directly between ESXi hosts. In any case, this article by Frank Denneman on Storage DRS load balancing frequency might be useful to you. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. That’s pretty handy.

Storage 92

Storage Vmware Linux Virtualization 92

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 6, 2012

First up is Brent Salisbury’s how to build an SDN lab without needing OpenFlow hardware. Not unsurprisingly, one of the key advantages of STT that’s highlighted is its improved performance due to TSO support in NIC hardware. Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications.

Vmware 109

Vmware Virtualization Storage Hardware 109

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). Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. Networking. Matt Oswalt recently wrapped up his 3-part “DevOps for Networking” series.

Open Source 60

Open Source Vmware Network IBM 60