GeekWire

OCTOBER 28, 2020

million investment led by NEA , representing a vote of confidence by the longtime venture capital firm in the Seattle startup’s software development tools for programming the underlying infrastructure of the cloud. Pulumi is based on an open-source model, with a community edition available for free to individual users.

Cloud 104

Cloud CTO Hire Software Development Open Source 104

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 31, 2021

Ivan Pepelnjak has a post on running network automation tools in a container. In fact, he’s already built some container images, and the post has information on running tools from his prebuilt container image. Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. Well worth reading!

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Open Source Virtualization Applications Security 94

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 23, 2020

I think a fair number of folks may not be aware that the Nginx ingress controller for Kubernetes—both the community version and the Nginx-maintained open source version—do suffer from timeouts and errors resulting from changes in the back-end application’s list of endpoints (think pods being added or removed).

Open Source 60

Open Source Vmware Disaster Recovery Linux 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 6, 2021

Back in April of this year, Patrick Ogenstad announced Netrasp , a Go package for writing network automation tooling in Go. Servers/Hardware. I saw this blog post about Curiefense , an open source Envoy extension to add WAF (web application firewall) functionality to Envoy. Operating Systems/Applications.

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Open Source Load Balancer WAN Architecture 105

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Well, let’s see…stuff on Envoy, network automation, network designs, M1 chips (and potential open source variants!), Servers/Hardware. Are open source M1-style chips a possibility? Operating Systems/Applications. Welcome to Technology Short Take #145! This article seems to think so.

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Open Source Cloud Network Storage 107

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 5, 2018

Servers/Hardware. The big news in the hardware space recently was the article regarding the purported Chinese hardware supply chain attack. Of the (innumerable) articles commenting on the hardware hack, this article by Joe FitzPatrick and this ErrataSec article caught my eye. Operating Systems/Applications.

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Hardware Open Source Vmware Linux 60

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 27, 2023

Servers/Hardware What do you think of the ThinkPhone ? This article by Brian Caffey on deploying the same web application on ECS Fargate using three different IaC tools (CDK, Terraform, and Pulumi) has some really great and useful information in it. Ah, the bygone sounds of yesteryear …what a blast from the past!

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Programming Open Source Cloud Devops 90

Scott Lowe

MAY 27, 2022

Servers/Hardware. marks the first release of the open source container orchestration platform that is signed using Sigstore (more details here ). Operating Systems/Applications. The state of virtualization on Apple Silicon hardware has seen a few developments in recent days and weeks. Kubernetes 1.24

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Virtualization Storage Programming Network 79

Vox

APRIL 21, 2021

Tile says that Apple is not only creating hardware that’s similar to its own, but is also designing Apple software in a way that favors its own products and disadvantages Tile’s products. “We Tile has long argued that Apple unfairly designed its mobile operating system, iOS, and the Find My app to favor its own location-tracking tools.

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Apple Open Source System Operating Systems 69

ForAllSecure

APRIL 19, 2023

It’s time to evolve beyond the UNIX operating system. So while I was editing this podcast on self-healing operating systems, I was reminded of an article that I never finished for Fobes.com. It’s a radical rethinking of how we even view our current choices of UNIX-derived operating systems.

Operating Systems 40

Operating Systems System Open Source Applications 40

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. This is such an invaluable resource.

Linux 74

Linux Load Balancer IPv6 Licensing 74

CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 15, 2022

They can do it themselves by hiring more people and aggressively taking advantage of tools and services from the major cloud providers. Maintained audit control of open source applications running in your cloud-native or containerized workloads? Open source applications running in the cloud need to be copyrighted.

Cloud 140

Cloud Open Source Applications Storage 140

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 27, 2019

Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. Continuing his focus on cloud-init , Luc Dekens has added four more articles to his site discussing this tool. Cole Atkinson discusses the fact that osxfuse is no longer open source , and the ramifications of this development on open source in general.

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. Sysdig explains PSPs, and talks about kube-psp-advisor , a tool to help simplify deploying PSPs. Sysdig explains PSPs, and talks about kube-psp-advisor , a tool to help simplify deploying PSPs. Nothing this time around!

Open Source 60

Open Source Tools Policies Cloud 60

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. SentinelOne shares a list of “must-have” apps and tools for hackers working on a Mac. Operating Systems/Applications. Networking.

Vmware 60

Vmware Hardware Load Balancer Apple 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 6, 2021

Back in April of this year, Patrick Ogenstad announced Netrasp , a Go package for writing network automation tooling in Go. Servers/Hardware. I saw this blog post about Curiefense , an open source Envoy extension to add WAF (web application firewall) functionality to Envoy. Operating Systems/Applications.

Open Source 60

Open Source Load Balancer WAN Architecture 60

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Open source has become so critical to so many aspects of our computing infrastructure. OpenCSPM looks like it could be quite a useful tool. Uh oh… more hardware exploits. I recently stumbled across Ricardo Sueiras’ “AWS open source news and updates” posts. I’m glad to see this.

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Linux Vmware Open Source Examples 60

Cloud Musings

MARCH 9, 2018

According to the former Equifax CEO’s testimony to Congress , one of the primary causes of this now infamous data breach was the company’s failure to patch a critical vulnerability in the open source Apache Struts Web application framework. A process to identify vulnerabilities in hardware, operating systems, and applications.

Operating Systems 79

Operating Systems Enterprise Enterprise Virtualization 79

ForAllSecure

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

These vulnerabilities can be exploited by attackers to gain access to sensitive data or systems. Implementing a vulnerability scanning tool is an important part of a comprehensive security strategy and vulnerability management plan. Operating system vulnerability scan. Types of Vulnerability Scans.

Authentication 40

Authentication Applications Network Operating Systems 40

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Well, let’s see…stuff on Envoy, network automation, network designs, M1 chips (and potential open source variants!), Servers/Hardware. Are open source M1-style chips a possibility? Operating Systems/Applications. Welcome to Technology Short Take #145! This article seems to think so.

Open Source 60

Open Source Cloud Network Storage 60

Scott Lowe

JULY 5, 2019

Servers/Hardware. Although I’ve by and large moved away from Apple hardware (I still have a MacBook Pro running macOS that sees very little use, and a Mac Pro running Fedora), I did see this article regarding a new keyboard for the MacBook Air and MacBook Pro. Operating Systems/Applications.

Storage 60

Storage Hardware Open Source Vmware 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. This looks like a handy tool. Operating Systems/Applications.

Vmware 60

Vmware Open Source Intel Applications 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

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. Google’s Project Zero team posted an update on finding and exploiting Safari bugs using publicly available tools.

Load Balancer 60

Load Balancer Operating Systems Intel Hardware 60

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 17, 2020

Servers/Hardware. Now I really want to see hardware security key support in the desktop and mobile apps! The Grafana folks have introduced Tanka , a new tool aimed a simplifying the task of managing Kubernetes manifests. Here’s a list of Kubernetes tools. Operating Systems/Applications.

Load Balancer 60

Load Balancer Vmware Windows Cloud 60

Linux Academy

APRIL 30, 2019

Join Ell Marquez (Jupiter Broadcasting/Linux Academy) and Tony Lambert (redcanary.com) in discussing a common sense approach to threat detection using only command line tools. LPI Linux Essentials — This course teaches the basic concepts of processes, programs, and the components of the Linux operating system.

Linux 113

Linux Course Big Data Devops 113

Galido

MARCH 19, 2019

Information Technology (IT) is about using technology to inform about technology, to communicate better, automate, simplify and ultimately provide tools to make business processes easier and more understandable. Operating System & Software Blogs. TechWorld – Operating Systems. What is Information Technology?

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Resources Mobile Data Center Security 113

GeekWire

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

“Whether companies are pursuing space ventures of their own or maturing cutting-edge systems to one day offer a new service to NASA, the agency is dedicated to helping bring new capabilities to market for our mutual benefit.”. Kent, Wash.-based based Blue Origin will partner with NASA on two projects. AI SpaceFactory of Secaucus, N.J.,

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Research System Development Energy 123

Scott Lowe

MARCH 23, 2017

From my perspective, Ansible has jumped out in front in the race among tools for network automation; I’m seeing more coverage and more interest in using Ansible for network automation. Servers/Hardware. Acra is open source and available via GitHub. Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization.

Open Source 60

Open Source Storage Vmware Network 60

Scott Lowe

APRIL 3, 2016

Cumulus Networks has added another hardware partner to its list of supported hardware partners; this time it’s Mellanox, as outlined in this SDx Central article. Servers/Hardware. Photon Controller is open source and available from GitHub , so feel free to give it a spin. Operating Systems/Applications.

Vmware 60

Vmware Network Linux Hardware 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. This is a tool I’d like to take for a spin as soon as I get a chance. 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 Thinking of using a hardware VTEP (VXLAN Tunnel Endpoint) with VMware NSX? Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications.

Vmware 60

Vmware Hardware Storage Linux 60

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 29, 2016

Servers/Hardware. James Green shares some information on Docker Bench , a tool designed to help secure Docker environments. Operating Systems/Applications. could make RDP connections to modern Windows systems. Ivan Pepelnjak shares a Python script that creates Ansible inventory from Vagrant’s SSH configuration.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Open Source Data Center 60

Scott Lowe

MAY 25, 2017

Michael Kashin has a handy little tool that functions like ssh-copy-id on servers, but for network devices (leveraging Netmiko). Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. I was recently reviewing some articles on Git, the popular distributed version control system, and came across a few related posts.

Linux 60

Linux Open Source Network Vmware 60

Scott Lowe

MAY 25, 2017

Michael Kashin has a handy little tool that functions like ssh-copy-id on servers, but for network devices (leveraging Netmiko). Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. I was recently reviewing some articles on Git, the popular distributed version control system, and came across a few related posts.

Linux 60

Linux Open Source Network Vmware 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). NAPALM (Network Automation and Programmability Layer with Multivendor support) looks like a really cool tool.

Vmware 60

Vmware Devops Storage Linux 60

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 6, 2013

Here’s a good source. Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. While written for OS X, most of these tips apply to Linux or other Unix-like operating systems as well. In part 1 , he covered installation, primarily centered around LVM and file system mount options. Any thoughts?

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