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FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Patch management in a modern cyber defense ecosystem Patch management is a vital process that allows IT and operations specialists to identify, prioritize, test, and deploy relevant patches and updates for software, firmware, drivers, and APIs across an organization's entire infrastructure. It optimizes resource usage.

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Exercises Policies Security Hardware 78

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

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Servers/Hardware. The Eclectic Light Company is back with an article on how the M1’s efficiency (E) cores win. I must admit I am a bit surprised at how much improvement there seems to be between the M1 Pro’s E cores and the original M1 E cores. Here’s an article on how to get started with OrgFormation.

Storage 79

Storage Hardware Policies Open Source 79

Scott Lowe

APRIL 29, 2022

Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. See here for details on how to inspect them. Also from Howard, here’s an explanation of why you may be getting less-than-promised storage throughput for USB-C storage on your M1-based Macs. Lucas Pardue and Christopher Wood share a primer on proxies.

Linux 74

Linux Storage Programming Applications 74

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

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

Dataconomy

JUNE 22, 2023

This software suite is compatible with both Windows and macOS operating systems, and offers a spectrum of six different editions to cater to diverse user needs. Recovery from non-booting Windows systems For Windows systems that fail to boot, Stellar Data Recovery Technician can still restore RAID data.

Data 68

Data Software Software Windows 68

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 105

Open Source Load Balancer WAN Architecture 105

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

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

AUGUST 2, 2019

I’ve got a little bit of something for most everyone, except for the storage nerds (I’m leaving that to my friend J Metz this time around). Servers/Hardware. Ronnie Flathers shares how he uses Docker for penetration testing. Operating Systems/Applications. Here’s hoping you find something useful!

Storage 60

Storage Applications Programming Firewall 60

Scott Lowe

MAY 7, 2021

Servers/Hardware. Chris Evans examines the pricing of virtual instances compared to managed servie offerings as he ponders how hyper-scalers like AWS, Azure, and Google will go about/are going about optimizing service density (i.e., maximizing revenue per hardware instance). Operating Systems/Applications.

Linux 60

Linux Hardware Network Cloud 60

Scott Lowe

APRIL 15, 2022

Servers/Hardware. Cabling is hardware, right? Diego Sucaria shows how to use an SSH SOCKS proxy to access private Kubernetes clusters. Operating Systems/Applications. Steven Bright shows how to deploy Salt minions automatically using VMware Tools. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Virtualization.

Linux 74

Linux Load Balancer IPv6 Licensing 74

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

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. Go check out part 2.

Operating Systems 60

Operating Systems Authentication Network Open Source 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. Operating Systems/Applications. Networking. Nothing this time around!

Storage 60

Storage Tools Architecture Network 60

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Servers/Hardware. Kaizhe Huang examines Falco versus AuditD from a host intrusion detection system (HIDS) perspective. Eclypsium discusses ways of protecting system firmware storage. Operating Systems/Applications. James Kiarie shows how to create a VM template for KVM. Virtualization.

Vmware 60

Vmware Storage Study 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. This post illustrates how to use Consul to provide dynamic inventory for Ansible.

Vmware 60

Vmware Storage Network Examples 60

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

Tomas Fojta shows how to use a PowerShell script to monitor the health of NSX Edge gateways. Servers/Hardware. Kevin Houston discusses workload acceleration options—specifically, storage acceleration via NVMe or PCIe SSDs—for blade servers. Operating Systems/Applications. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management.

Linux 60

Linux Vmware Storage Network 60

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. Operating Systems/Applications. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management.

Hardware 60

Hardware Open Source Vmware Linux 60

Scott Lowe

JUNE 8, 2018

Servers/Hardware. AWS adds local NVMe storage to the M5 instance family; more details here. What I found interesting is that the local NVMe storage is also hardware encrypted. Operating Systems/Applications. Speaking of EKS, here’s a new command-line interface for EKS , courtesy of Weaveworks.

Load Balancer 60

Load Balancer Vmware Storage Intel 60

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Uh oh… more hardware exploits. Teammate Eric Shanks shows folks how to use ytt to customize a TKG deployment. Adrian Hornsby shows how to use AWS Systems Manager Automation to perform chaos engineering experiments. Adrian’s operational review readiness template is another great post as well.

Linux 60

Linux Vmware Open Source Examples 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

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

JUNE 2, 2016

Tom Hollingsworth discusses how the rise of overlay networks killed large layer 2 networks and tools for building large layer 2 networks, like TRILL. Dmitri Kalintsev examines some options for addressing storage-related connectivity in NSX environments. Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications.

Vmware 60

Vmware Virtualization Linux Windows 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. This looks interesting, but I’m not entirely sure how I might go about using it. Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. Here’s a good source.

Vmware 60

Vmware Storage Linux Network 60

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

Servers/Hardware. Christopher Damerau explains how to use Ansible to manage VMware resources. Tobias Zimmergren shows how to enable Azure Monitor for your AKS clusters. And while we’re on the topic of AKS, AKS developer Weinong Wang shares how to access control plane logs for AKS. Operating Systems/Applications.

Network 60

Network Resources Devops Vmware 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. Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. I hope you find something useful here!

Network 60

Network Load Balancer Storage Applications 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 16, 2018

Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. Kevin Carter explains how to ship journals remotely using systemd-journald. Chris Evans discusses a recent re-org that aligns ScaleIO with hardware sales. So much for software-defined storage? Nothing this time around; sorry! VMware PowerCLI 10.0

Architecture 60

Architecture Meeting Storage Hardware 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

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

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

If you’re interested in more details on how NSX handles ARP suppression, Dmitri Kalintsev has a post just for you. Servers/Hardware. While all the attention is “up the stack,” there are still some occasions when you need to worry about the details in the hardware. Operating Systems/Applications.

Vmware 69

Vmware Linux Storage Virtualization 69

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

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

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

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

JULY 21, 2016

Servers/Hardware. Kevin Houston has an updated blade server comparison chart that might be helpful in making hardware decisions. The article includes a pretty fair amount of sample CloudFormation code, which is—to me, at least—very helpful in understanding how everything fits together. How about some icons for vRA/vCAC ?

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Vmware Linux Storage Hardware 60