Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 31, 2021

Servers/Hardware. The Log4J vulnerability and associated exploits has been on many folks' minds, so it’s only natural that many security companies have been looking into how to mitigate this attack vector. Kevin Swiber shows how to use Postman to deploy an application onto a Kubernetes cluster. Well worth reading!

Open Source 94

Open Source Virtualization Applications Security 94

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

This is a slightly older article (from January of this year) in which Josh Saul of Hedgehog pays homage to the achievements of Cumulus Networks in the open networking movement. Michael Kashin has a good post on source IP address selection in Linux. André Ilhicas shows how to run a sidecar container with Docker Compose.

Vmware 74

Vmware Network Hardware Cloud 74

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 27, 2023

Servers/Hardware What do you think of the ThinkPhone ? Operating Systems/Applications Dewan Ahmed has a great run-down on options for documentation-as-code. Jeff Johnson shows how to log some information being sent between macOS and Apple. Ah, the bygone sounds of yesteryear …what a blast from the past!

Programming 90

Programming Open Source Cloud Devops 90

Kitaboo

MAY 19, 2020

The Open Source Foundation aims to develop technology for expediting the adoption of ePUB3 and the Open Web Platform by the Digital Publishing Industry. It strives to deliver leading-edge functionality that is fully specified, free, open, and interoperable. How-To Guide: How to Automate PDF to ePub3 Conversion.

Architecture 78

Architecture eBook Open Source Applications 78

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Components involved include the open source Kuma service mesh (in turn leveraging Envoy), anycast BGP, and mutual TLS (mTLS). Servers/Hardware. The Eclectic Light Company is back with an article on how the M1’s efficiency (E) cores win. William Lam takes a look at some potentially interesting homelab hardware.

Storage 79

Storage Hardware Policies Open Source 79

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 5, 2018

Brian Boucheron provides a great article on how to inspect and debug Kubernetes network primitives. Servers/Hardware. The big news in the hardware space recently was the article regarding the purported Chinese hardware supply chain attack. Sathyajith Bhat covers five open source tools for container security.

Hardware 60

Hardware Open Source Vmware Linux 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 6, 2021

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. Jeremy Cowan shows how to use Cluster API to provision an AWS EKS cluster.

Open Source 60

Open Source Load Balancer WAN Architecture 60

Scott Lowe

MAY 27, 2022

Isovalent—the company behind the Cilium project—has been talking a lot about how the use of eBPF will transform things, including the architecture of a service mesh. Along those lines, one of their latest articles discusses how to achieve identity-based mutual authentication leveraging eBPF. Servers/Hardware.

Virtualization 79

Virtualization Storage Programming Network 79

Scott Lowe

JUNE 18, 2021

The collection of links shared below covers a fairly wide range of topics, from old Sun hardware to working with serverless frameworks in the public cloud. Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. Michael Gasch has a nice post on git and using it to collaborate on an open source project. Networking.

Vmware 60

Vmware Hardware Load Balancer Apple 60

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 21, 2022

Aidan Steele examines how VPC sharing could potentially improve security and reduce cost. Servers/Hardware. The story of a developer deliberately polluting their open source projects—as outlined here for the “colors.js” Operating Systems/Applications. ” and “faker.js”

Load Balancer 90

Load Balancer Linux Intel Cloud 90

Linux Academy

JUNE 4, 2019

The Serverless Framework is an open-source project that replaces traditional platforms (hardware, operating systems) with a platform that can run in a cloud environment. Check out Linux Academy’s free Serverless Concepts course that will get you up to speed on how to do more by going serverless.

Linux 92

Linux Cloud Architecture Open Source 92

Galido

OCTOBER 18, 2018

“Everyone should learn how to program a computer, because it teaches you how to think”…Steve Jobs. When programming applications for the operating system of Apple, iOS, and therefore to create apps for iPhone and iPad, you must use the Objective-C language. Kotlin is an open source language.

Programming 81

Programming Operating Systems Open Source Applications 81

Scott Lowe

APRIL 15, 2022

Xavier Avrillier walks readers through using Antrea (a Kubernetes CNI built on top of Open vSwitch—a topic I’ve touched on a time or two) to provide on-premise load balancing in Kubernetes. Servers/Hardware. Cabling is hardware, right? Operating Systems/Applications. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management.

Linux 74

Linux Load Balancer IPv6 Licensing 74

Scott Lowe

MARCH 1, 2019

Paul Fitzgerald shows how to use Hyper-V and Docker to build a VyOS 1.2.0 VyOS is an open source Linux-based network operating system.). Matt Cowger shares how to use MetalLB with the Unifi USG to take advantage of Kubernetes LoadBalancer functionality in your home lab. Servers/Hardware.

Operating Systems 60

Operating Systems Authentication Network Open Source 60

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Open source has become so critical to so many aspects of our computing infrastructure. Uh oh… more hardware exploits. Teammate Eric Shanks shows folks how to use ytt to customize a TKG deployment. I recently stumbled across Ricardo Sueiras’ “AWS open source news and updates” posts.

Linux 60

Linux Vmware Open Source Examples 60

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 27, 2019

Servers/Hardware. Bruce Schneier writes about how some Chinese hackers are bypassing RSA software token authentication (the title is a bit more broad, implying other forms of two-factor authentication are affected, but the article focuses on attacks against the use of RSA software tokens). Operating Systems/Applications.

Open Source 60

Open Source Vmware Authentication Storage 60

Scott Lowe

APRIL 19, 2019

Servers/Hardware. Tim Hinrichs discusses securing the Kubernetes API with Open Policy Agent. This article discusses four open source secrets management tools. Many organizations prefer to use two-factor authentication (2FA) to help protect their systems. ” Operating Systems/Applications.

Open Source 60

Open Source Tools Policies Cloud 60

Linux Academy

APRIL 30, 2019

LPI Linux Essentials — This course teaches the basic concepts of processes, programs, and the components of the Linux operating system. Introduction to Python Development — This course is designed to teach you how to program using Python. In the end, you should have a grasp of how to program. Courses Free in May.

Linux 113

Linux Course Big Data Devops 113

SPF13

MARCH 20, 2015

In the last few years open source has transformed the software industry. From Android to Wikipedia, open source is everywhere, but how does one succeed in it? What Every Successful Open Source Project Needs. spf13 Chief Operator @ Docker? Open Source is taking over the world.

Open Source 100

Open Source Linux Software Software 100

Galido

MARCH 19, 2019

These areas of IT include general IT and technology, security, IT feeds, cloud computing, data center, mobile, social media, tips and tricks, virtualization, and operating system and software blogs. Here you can find latest news and insights from Google on security and how to be safe on the Internet. CIO Dashboard. Dark Reading.

Resources 113

Resources Mobile Data Center Security 113

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

Servers/Hardware. Serve The Home takes a critical look at the Bloomberg Supermicro stories, debunking or at least calling into question many details of the alleged hardware hack as reported by Bloomberg. Ric Harvey shows how to automatically deploy Hugo updates using AWS CodeBuild. Operating Systems/Applications.

Load Balancer 60

Load Balancer Operating Systems Intel Hardware 60

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 6, 2019

Brian Linkletter has a post on how to run the Antidote network emulator on KVM for better performance. Anders Olsson explains how to map NSX-T UUIDs to the actual logical objects. Philippe Bogaerts has an article on how to use tcpdump effectively in Kubernetes. Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications.

Vmware 60

Vmware Network Linux Hardware 60

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 14, 2017

Servers/Hardware. I’ll keep an eye open for links to include next time around. Jason Brooks has a write-up discussing how to run Kubernetes on Fedora Atomic Host. Operating Systems/Applications. The popular open source container registry project, Harbor , has released a new version (version 1.2).

Load Balancer 60

Load Balancer Vmware Hardware Open Source 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 23, 2017

Servers/Hardware. As opposed to just encrypting data at the transport level (although Acra does that between components of its architecture) or just encrypting data at the storage level (using an encrypted file system or similar), Acra targets encrypting data at the table/row/column level within a database. Check back next time!

Open Source 60

Open Source Storage Vmware Network 60

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 17, 2020

Servers/Hardware. Now I really want to see hardware security key support in the desktop and mobile apps! How about a bash “wrapper” for working with AWS resources from the command line? Operating Systems/Applications. Time to get patching, folks! Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. This is kind of cool.

Load Balancer 60

Load Balancer Vmware Windows Cloud 60

Scott Lowe

APRIL 24, 2020

I don’t have any links for servers/hardware or security in today’s Short Take, but hopefully there’s enough linked content in the other sections that you’ll still find something useful. Servers/Hardware. I recently stumbled across this regular list of AWS open source news and updates by Ricardo Sueiras.

Storage 60

Storage Tools Architecture Network 60

Scott Lowe

MAY 3, 2019

Via the Kubernetes blog , Box announced it has open sourced a project called kube-iptables-tailer , which turns packet drops from iptables into Kubernetes events that can be logged for easier troubleshooting. Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. Who says you can’t please everyone all the time?

Vmware 60

Vmware Open Source Intel Applications 60

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 28, 2016

And while we are on the topic of Linux and open source in the networking industry…read this entertaining and informative article on the importance of (truly) open source libraries in networking. Servers/Hardware. The project itself is open source and hosted on GitHub. Operating Systems/Applications.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Open Source Devops 60

Galido

MAY 1, 2019

These areas of tech include general IT and technology, security, IT feeds, cloud computing, data center, mobile, social media, tips and tricks, virtualization, and operating system and software blogs. Here you can find latest news and insights from Google on security and how to be safe on the Internet. CIO Dashboard.

Resources 107

Resources Mobile Data Center Security 107

Galido

MARCH 22, 2019

These areas of tech include general IT and technology, security, IT feeds, cloud computing, data center, mobile, social media, tips and tricks, virtualization, and operating system and software blogs. Here you can find latest news and insights from Google on security and how to be safe on the Internet. CIO Dashboard.

Resources 107

Resources Mobile Data Center Security 107

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 29, 2016

Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. could make RDP connections to modern Windows systems. Jase McCarty talks about how to backup or recover storage policy-based management (SPBM) profiles. Myles Gray shows you how to recover NSX Manager from a corrupt filesystem using an Ubuntu live CD.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Open Source Data Center 60

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 14, 2016

Cumulus VX, if you aren’t aware, is a community-supported virtual appliance version of Cumulus Linux aimed at helping folks preview and test “full-blown” Cumulus Linux (which, of course, requires compatible hardware). Servers/Hardware. Here’s a handy “how to” on assigning a specific floating IP address to an OpenStack instance.

Vmware 60

Vmware Devops Storage Linux 60

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 19, 2018

Servers/Hardware. Via Maish Saidel-Keesing, I saw this post about 10 open source Kubernetes tools for highly effective SRE and Ops teams. Operating Systems/Applications. Ariya Hidayat shows how to run Debian under WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux). Nothing this time around. release of Kubernetes.

Vmware 60

Vmware Open Source Linux Cloud 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 11, 2016

In this post you’ll find a collection of links to articles discussing the major data center technologies—networking, hardware, security, cloud computing, applications, virtualization…you name it! (If Dwayne Sinclair covers the basics of SpoofGuard in NSX, and how to interact with SpoofGuard via API, in this article. Servers/Hardware.

Vmware 60

Vmware Hardware Storage Linux 60

Scott Lowe

APRIL 27, 2018

Cilium, the open source project working to bring eBPF-powered networking and security to Kubernetes environments, has hit the 1.0 Servers/Hardware. Gergely Nemeth shares how to leverage skaffold so you can use Kubernetes for local development. Operating Systems/Applications.

Vmware 60

Vmware Storage Open Source Security 60

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 6, 2013

The elephants and mice post at Network Heresy has sparked some discussion across the “blogosphere” about how to address this issue. Here’s a good source. This looks interesting, but I’m not entirely sure how I might go about using it. Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications.

Vmware 60

Vmware Storage Linux Network 60

Scott Lowe

MAY 4, 2017

Kristian Larsson shows how to validate data using YANG. Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. Ryan Kelly shows readers how to configure Harbor (open source container registry project) to use Amazon S3 for storage. In the meantime, here’s a few links and articles for your reading pleasure.

Vmware 60

Vmware Storage Network Examples 60