Linux Academy

APRIL 29, 2019

By adding free cloud training to our Community Membership, students have the opportunity to develop their Linux and Cloud skills further. Each month, we will kick off our community content with a live study group allowing members of the Linux Academy community to come together and share their insights in order to learn from one another.

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Linux Course Big Data Devops 60

Linux Academy

JANUARY 29, 2019

By adding free cloud training to our Community Membership, students have the opportunity to develop their Linux and Cloud skills further. Each month we will kick off our community content with a live study group allowing members of the Linux Academy community to come together and share their insights in order to learn from one another.

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Linux Devops Big Data Course 60

Linux Academy

JUNE 25, 2019

By adding free cloud training to our Community Membership, students can develop their Linux and Cloud skills even further. Members of the Linux Academy community come together and share their insights and questions. Principal Systems Engineer from Symantec Corporation and Ell Marquez for a Threat Report Rundown.

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Course Linux Cloud Devops 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 12, 2022

DNS, BGP, hardware-based security, Kubernetes, Linux—they’re all in here. See this page for instructions on how to enable BBR on Debian 10. Christopher Vierheller supplies a concise guide on how to add custom symbols to EVE-NG. Operating Systems/Applications. Networking. Interested in hardening macOS?

Linux 90

Linux Storage Virtualization Hardware 90

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Operating Systems/Applications. Vivek Gite has instructions on how to install ffmepg with NVIDIA GPU acceleration. Nice to see that work on getting Linux up and running and fully functional on Apple’s proprietary M1 chips is progressing well.

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IPv6 Storage Hardware Vmware 97

Linux Academy

JANUARY 1, 2020

How to Get a Linux Job. This course helps prepare you for applying for and successfully obtaining a Linux Job. Learn how to use the keyboard to work with your text documents, complete searches, replace text, and format. This course dives into LXC (Linux Containers) and its container manager, LXD. LXC/LXD Deep Dive.

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Course Linux Devops Big Data 31

Linux Academy

JANUARY 30, 2020

How to Get a Linux Job. This course helps prepare you for applying for and successfully obtaining a Linux Job. Learn how to use the keyboard to work with your text documents, complete searches, replace text, and format. This course dives into LXC (Linux Containers) and its container manager, LXD. LXC/LXD Deep Dive.

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Course Linux Devops Big Data 29

Linux Academy

DECEMBER 1, 2019

To continually support your mission to learn and grow, we are always adding new, free courses and resources for developing Linux and Cloud skills. Members of the Linux Academy community come together and share their insights and questions. Microsoft SQL Server on Linux Quick Start. How to Get a Linux Job.

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Course Linux Devops Big Data 26

Scott Lowe

APRIL 6, 2017

Humair Ahmed of VMware shares some details on a new control plane resiliency feature recently added to VMware NSX: Controller Disconnected Operation (CDO) mode. Here’s a handy list of deprecated Linux network commands and their replacements. Konstantin Ryabitsev has a series going on securing a SysAdmin Linux workstation.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Storage Network 60

Scott Lowe

APRIL 29, 2022

Operating Systems/Applications. Jorge Castro encourages folks to just kill the silly myths (regarding desktop Linux). See here for details on how to inspect them. Poorna Gaddehosur has an update on getting Linux-based eBPF programs to run with eBPF on Windows. Web views in macOS? Virtualization.

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Linux Storage Programming Applications 74

Linux Academy

JANUARY 27, 2019

Simply put, Ansible facts are system properties that are collected by Ansible when it executes on a remote system. The facts contain useful details such as storage and network configuration about a target system. Ansible provides simple yet powerful automation no matter your operating system or cloud provider.

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System Linux Operating Systems Course 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 27, 2021

I have a fairly diverse set of links for readers this time around, covering topics from microchips to improving your writing, with stops along the way in topics like Kubernetes, virtualization, Linux, and the popular JSON-parsing tool jq. Michael Kashin shares the journey of containerizing NVIDIA Cumulus Linux. Networking. So useful.).

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Linux Load Balancer Malware Virtualization 90

Linux Academy

JULY 30, 2019

Our free cloud training allows students to begin developing their Linux and Cloud skills. Visit the Linux Academy Booth at Black Hat or find Ell at any of the other Hacker Summer Camp events! Kali Linux Deep Dive – In this course, you will learn how to find the vulnerabilities in frameworks like Metasploit, BeEF, SET, etc.

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Course Linux Devops Cloud 25

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Operating Systems/Applications. Vivek Gite has instructions on how to install ffmepg with NVIDIA GPU acceleration. Nice to see that work on getting Linux up and running and fully functional on Apple’s proprietary M1 chips is progressing well.

IPv6 60

IPv6 Storage Hardware Vmware 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. I use OTR with Adium on OS X, and OTR with Pidgin on my Fedora Linux laptop.). Operating Systems/Applications.

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Vmware Linux Storage Load Balancer 60

Linux Academy

AUGUST 29, 2019

To continually support you in your mission to learn and grow we are always adding new courses and free resources to begin developing your Linux and Cloud skills. Courses Free in September: Microsoft SQL Server On Linux Quick Start. Linux Networking and Trouble Shooting. System Tooling with Go. Git Quick Start.

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Linux Course Devops Big Data 18

Linux Academy

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

To continually support your mission to learn and grow, we are always adding new, free courses and resources for developing Linux and Cloud skills. Members of the Linux Academy community come together and share their insights and questions. How to Get a Linux Job. Included with Community Membership. Free Mastery Courses.

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Linux Course Devops Big Data 22

Scott Lowe

JUNE 24, 2022

BPFDoor, as it is known, is a passive backdoor that allows threat actors to remotely connect to a Linux shell. Scott Rosenberg has a piece on how to learn Tanzu. Operating Systems/Applications. Check out this write-up. Think PDF files are safe? Think again. Read more about it on the Isovalent blog. That’s handy.

Vmware 74

Vmware Linux Storage Virtualization 74

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

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. I particularly appreciated how Adrian provides an example of how it’s done, and walks readers through in detail how the example works.

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Linux Vmware Open Source Examples 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 27, 2021

I have a fairly diverse set of links for readers this time around, covering topics from microchips to improving your writing, with stops along the way in topics like Kubernetes, virtualization, Linux, and the popular JSON-parsing tool jq along the way. Michael Kashin shares the journey of containerizing NVIDIA Cumulus Linux.

Linux 60

Linux Load Balancer Malware Virtualization 60

Scott Lowe

APRIL 15, 2022

Although Linux is often considered to be superior to Windows and macOS with regard to security, it is not without its own security flaws. I, personally, would posit that Linux can be more secure than other platforms, but it requires proper configuration and can still be undone by a loose nut behind the keyboard. Virtualization.

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Linux Load Balancer IPv6 Licensing 74

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 27, 2023

Back in October of last year, Tom Hollingsworth weighed in on Hedgehog , the networking company that has set out to commercialize SONiC, a Linux-based NOS used extensively in Azure. Operating Systems/Applications Dewan Ahmed has a great run-down on options for documentation-as-code. to version 8.0.

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Programming Open Source Cloud Devops 90

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. Virtualization.

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Linux Academy

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

To continually support your mission to learn and grow, we are always adding new, free courses and resources for developing Linux and Cloud skills. Members of the Linux Academy community come together and share their insights and questions. Microsoft SQL Server on Linux Quick Start. How to Get a Linux Job.

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Course Linux Devops Big Data 15

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

Tomas Fojta shows how to use a PowerShell script to monitor the health of NSX Edge gateways. Cumulus Networks recently introduced the Cumulus Linux Network Command Line Utility (NCLU) , which provides a more unified front-end to configuring switches running Cumulus Linux. Operating Systems/Applications.

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Linux Vmware Storage Network 60

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Rory McCune writes about a CVE in the Linux kernel that could allow for container escape in Kubernetes. Anders Eknert shows how to do—or at least provides a framework on getting started with—dynamic policy composition with Open Policy Agent (OPA) in this blog post from April 2021. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management.

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Storage Hardware Policies Open Source 79

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Over the last few weeks, I’ve been collecting articles I wanted to share with readers on major areas in technology: networking, security, storage, virtualization, cloud computing, and OSes/applications. Denis Mulyalin shows how to use Nornir, Salt, and NetBox to template your network tests. Welcome to Technology Short Take #165!

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Programming Policies Network Cloud 96

Scott Lowe

MAY 7, 2021

It’s hard to believe it’s already the start of May 2021—my how time flies! In this Technology Short Take, I’ve gathered some links for you covering topics like Azure and AWS networking, moving from macOS to Linux (and back again), and more. Operating Systems/Applications. Networking. Programming.

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Linux Hardware Network Cloud 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 21, 2020

” Want to use a Yubikey to automatically lock and unlock your Linux system? Steven Wade shares a cautionary tale about how SSO brought a Kubernetes cluster to its knees. Mike Krieger shares some information on how rt.live (a site sharing updates of the COVID-19 R t ) handles their daily runs to update data.

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Handbook Linux Storage Windows 60

Linux Academy

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

Here’s a break down of how many new labs came out and for what: AWS: 22. Implement and manage storage. This exam measures your ability to do the following: Implement data storage solutions. We cover how to connect to and manage this popular RDMS using a variety of tools running on our favorite operating system.

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Linux Course Microsoft Devops 14

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

Yes, the article is slightly OpenStack-centric, but it still remains a very informative look at the different components of OVN and how OVN works. You might also be interested in an earlier article that outlines how to build and install OVN with OpenStack.). Eddie Cranklin Kim shares how to create a virus using assembly language. (I’m

Linux 60

Linux Network Virtualization IPv6 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. If you’re looking for more information on how all the various pieces fit together, I definitely recommend reading this—it’s worth your time. Operating Systems/Applications.

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Vmware Storage Linux Network 60

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

It was good to read this post on Cumulus Linux first impressions by Jeremy Stretch. I’m a fan of Cumulus, but I’m admittedly a Linux guy (see here ) so you might say I’m a bit biased. Jeremy is a “hard-core” networking professional, and so hearing his feedback on Cumulus Linux was, in my opinion, useful.

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Linux Academy

JULY 30, 2019

Our free cloud training allows students to begin developing their Linux and Cloud skills. Visit the Linux Academy Booth at Black Hat or find Ell at any of the other Hacker Summer Camp events! Kali Linux Deep Dive – In this course, you will learn how to find the vulnerabilities in frameworks like Metasploit, BeEF, SET, etc.

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Course Linux Devops Cloud 12

Scott Lowe

MARCH 12, 2021

I didn’t do so well on storage links; apologies to my storage-focused friends! Operating Systems/Applications. Via TecMint, James Kiarie explains how to use VirtualBox VMs on KVM in Linux. Welcome to Technology Short Take #138. However, there should be something for most everyone else. Networking.

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IPv6 Network Storage Policies 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. Operating Systems/Applications. Is Cisco’s Insieme effort producing a storage product? storage enhancements. It starts here.

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Storage Vmware Linux Virtualization 92

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

I recently mentioned on Twitter that I was considering building out a new Linux PC to replace my aging Mac Pro (it’s a 2012 model, so going on 9 years old). Kaizhe Huang examines Falco versus AuditD from a host intrusion detection system (HIDS) perspective. Eclypsium discusses ways of protecting system firmware storage.

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Vmware Storage Study Network 60