Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 27, 2019

Servers/Hardware. Cole Atkinson discusses the fact that osxfuse is no longer open source , and the ramifications of this development on open source in general. Virtualization. I recently spotted Multipass , a virtualization solution for working with Linux instances. Networking.

Open Source 60

Open Source Vmware Authentication Storage 60

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. William Lam takes a look at some potentially interesting homelab hardware. Jim Jones has an article on getting started with S3-compatible object storage. Virtualization.

Storage 79

Storage Hardware Policies Open Source 79

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. In case you’re interested, here’s a collection of storage trends and predictions for 2016.

Vmware 60

Vmware Devops Storage Linux 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 Numan Siddique describes the native DHCP support available in OVN (Open Virtual Network). Servers/Hardware.

Vmware 60

Vmware Hardware Storage Linux 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

Next, Intel talks about how they have worked to expose hardware features into OpenStack. This involves work in libvirt as well as OpenStack, so that OpenStack can be aware of CPU functionality (which, in turn, might allow cloud providers to charge extra for “premium images” that offer encryption support in hardware).

Intel 60

Intel Storage Open Source Hardware 60

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 6, 2013

A fan of network virtualization might also say that decomposing today’s complex physical networks into multiple simple logical networks on top of a simpler physical transport network—similar to Mike’s suggestion of converging on a smaller set of reference architectures—might also help. (Of Here’s a good source.

Vmware 60

Vmware Storage Linux Network 60

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 27, 2023

Servers/Hardware What do you think of the ThinkPhone ? Rory McCune shares some information on configuring Caddy , a Go-based open source web server. Storage Stephen Wagner discusses a situation in which all VMs are inaccessible after graceful cluster shutdown and restart. to version 8.0.

Programming 90

Programming Open Source Cloud Devops 90

Galido

APRIL 27, 2020

For a start, it provides easy optimization of infrastructural resources since it uses hardware more effectively. However, even though the project was promising, in 2015, Google released this tool as an open-source project. This is especially true when compared to making a virtual machine with its own OS for each application.

Load Balancer 94

Load Balancer Tools Applications Open Source 94

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. Virtualization.

Open Source 60

Open Source Storage Vmware Network 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 6, 2021

Servers/Hardware. I saw this blog post about Curiefense , an open source Envoy extension to add WAF (web application firewall) functionality to Envoy. I really enjoy these AWS open source news and updates posts. Virtualization. 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 7, 2014

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. I find it enormously helpful to stay connected to various open source-related IRC channels, but staying logged while on the move is, for all intents and purposes, impossible.

Vmware 69

Vmware Linux Storage Virtualization 69

Scott Lowe

MARCH 2, 2020

Servers/Hardware. This article is about hardware, just not the hardware I’d typically talk about in this section—instead, it’s about Philips Hue light bulbs. Chip Zoller makes the argument in favor of running Kubernetes in/on virtual machines. Virtualization. That’s cool. Good for the EFF.

Linux 60

Linux Windows Hardware Network 60

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. Virtualization.

Hardware 60

Hardware Open Source Vmware Linux 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. In case you’re interested, here’s a collection of storage trends and predictions for 2016.

Devops 60

Devops Vmware Storage Open Source 60

Virtualized Greek

AUGUST 25, 2013

They also have some great competition within their main space – Server Virtualization. Microsoft, Citrix and open source hypervisors have quickly become good enough for basic virtualization use cases. Server virtualization is just the beginning of their plan to virtualize the data center.

Vmware 64

Vmware CTO Virtualization VOIP 64

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. Virtualization. It provides the basics behind X.509v3

Storage 60

Storage Hardware Open Source Vmware 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. I recently stumbled across Ricardo Sueiras’ “AWS open source news and updates” posts. Virtualization. I’m glad to see this. Good stuff here!

Linux 60

Linux Vmware Open Source Examples 60

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? Virtualization. Some of it is still too advanced for me right now.

Linux 74

Linux Load Balancer IPv6 Licensing 74

Scott Lowe

MAY 17, 2019

Servers/Hardware. The CNCF blog has a great article written by an Alibaba software engineer (Xingyu Chen) on some performance optimizations for etcd that have been contributed back to the open source community. These look interesting, but be aware that they are not licensed with an open source license. Networking.

Linux 60

Linux Dell Open Source Licensing 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

F5′s products use Intel CPUs, but they also leverage FPGAs to selectively enable certain functions in hardware for improved performance. The first area of SDI that Bryant focuses upon is storage, where growth is happening rapidly but storage is still siloed. Open source investments in Ceph and OpenStack Swift.

Data Center 60

Data Center Intel Data Storage 60

Scott Lowe

MAY 9, 2014

Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) is a networking topic that is starting to get more and more attention (some may equate “attention” with “hype”; I’ll allow you to draw your own conclusion there). Servers/Hardware. Here’s hoping you find something useful! Networking.

Vmware 60

Vmware Storage HP Virtualization 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. Virtualization.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Open Source Devops 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

This is a liveblog of IDF 2014 session DATS009, titled “Ceph: Open Source Storage Software Optimizations on Intel Architecture for Cloud Workloads.” Chagam does admit that not all workloads are suited for distributed storage solutions. Chagam turns to discussing Ceph block storage.

Open Source 61

Open Source Storage Intel Architecture 61

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

OCTOBER 5, 2012

Erik Smith, notably known for his outstanding posts on storage and FCoE, takes a stab at describing some of the differences between SDN and network virtualization in this post. I found this series of posts to be helpful when I was working on configuring LACP with Open vSwitch (I hope to have a blog post on that up soon).

Storage 92

Storage Vmware Linux Virtualization 92

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 29, 2016

Servers/Hardware. Jase McCarty talks about how to backup or recover storage policy-based management (SPBM) profiles. Virtualization. Ivan Pepelnjak shares a Python script that creates Ansible inventory from Vagrant’s SSH configuration. Nothing this time around! Neat trick! Career/Soft Skills.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Open Source Data Center 60

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 8, 2016

This is an interesting project to watch, I think—it’s porting OVN (Open Virtual Network) from a “traditional” OvS back-end to an IOVisor-based back-end (IOVisor implements the data plane in eBPF). Servers/Hardware. I noted that a Vagrant provider for vRealize Automation was recently released as an open source project.

Vmware 60

Vmware Storage Intel Virtualization 60

Scott Lowe

APRIL 8, 2013

Servers/Hardware. He describes cloud as the synthesis of many different forms of innovation within IT , pulling together things like open source, virtualization, distributed programming, NoSQL, DevOps/NoOps, distributed teams, dynamic languages, and Big Data (among others). Virtualization.

Storage 111

Storage Vmware WAN Virtualization 111

Scott Lowe

MAY 25, 2017

Servers/Hardware. After a little time and seeing how things seem to be progressing, I realize that it creates a clear separation between the open source project formerly known as Docker (now Moby) and Docker CE/EE (the products from Docker Inc.). Virtualization. Fun read if you’re into custom builds. Career/Soft Skills.

Linux 60

Linux Open Source Network Vmware 60

Scott Lowe

MAY 25, 2017

Servers/Hardware. After a little time and seeing how things seem to be progressing, I realize that it creates a clear separation between the open source project formerly known as Docker (now Moby) and Docker CE/EE (the products from Docker Inc.). Virtualization. Fun read if you’re into custom builds. Career/Soft Skills.

Linux 60

Linux Open Source Network Vmware 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 2, 2017

Skydive is (in the project’s own words) an “open source real-time network topology and protocols analyzer.” Servers/Hardware. I just noticed this article about using Nova flavor extra-specs to pass QoS data down to the virtualization layer. Alan Renouf shows you how to retrieve NVMe storage device details using PowerCLI.

Linux 60

Linux Devops Open Source Virtualization 60

Scott Lowe

APRIL 22, 2014

The vendors may vary in their approach to providing this automation and orchestration—some may prefer to do it in software (VMware would be one of these, along with other software companies like Microsoft and Red Hat), while others want to do it in hardware. Thinking About Open Source. Similar Posts: Xen Trademark Policy.

Policies 60

Policies Open Source Vmware Data Center 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. Virtualization. Via Ivan Pepelnjak’s site, Albert Siersema shares some information on using Ansible to automate 802.1x configurations. Larry Smith Jr.

Open Source 60

Open Source Tools Policies Cloud 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. Virtualization. Who says you can’t please everyone all the time? Networking.

Vmware 60

Vmware Open Source Intel Applications 60

Galido

JULY 20, 2018

Many iPhone users and Apple fanboys alike stand by their product no matter how limited Apple makes their storage capacities, while Android geeks have long time been able to freely add storage/memory cards to their devices and take advantage of more powerful hardware. Aesthetics, Hardware and Price.

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Study Apple Google Operating Systems 66

Scott Lowe

MARCH 17, 2016

Matt Oswalt recently unveiled (and open sourced) a framework called ToDD, which stands for “Testing on Demand: Distributed”. Servers/Hardware. And, in the case of Docker, whether you’re talking about the open source Docker project or the company Docker, Inc. Finally, you might find the VMware Virtual SAN 6.2

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Network Open Source 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. Mark Peek talks about Dispatch , the open source serverless framework VMware recently released. Virtualization. Nothing this time around. release of Kubernetes.

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Vmware Open Source Linux Cloud 60