Scott Lowe

JANUARY 27, 2023

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. Rory McCune shares some information on configuring Caddy , a Go-based open source web server. to version 8.0.

Programming 90

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. Kubernetes 1.24 Virtualization.

Virtualization 79

Virtualization Storage Programming Network 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!

Programming 96

Programming Policies Network Cloud 96

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Components involved include the open source Kuma service mesh (in turn leveraging Envoy), anycast BGP, and mutual TLS (mTLS). 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.

Storage 79

Storage Hardware Policies Open Source 79

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. Jeremy Cowan shows how to use Cluster API to provision an AWS EKS cluster. Operating Systems/Applications.

Open Source 60

Open Source Load Balancer WAN Architecture 60

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 27, 2019

Geert Baeke walks readers through deploying AKS with Nginx, External DNS, the Helm Operator, and Flux (all using an Azure DevOps pipeline, if I read the article correctly). Seth Vargo walks through how to use Terraform to setup and configure a Google Cloud Run service. Operating Systems/Applications.

Open Source 60

Open Source Vmware Authentication Storage 60

Scott Lowe

JUNE 24, 2022

Tetragon is Isovalent’s newly open-sourced security framework. Scott Rosenberg has a piece on how to learn Tanzu. Operating Systems/Applications. BPFDoor, as it is known, is a passive backdoor that allows threat actors to remotely connect to a Linux shell. Check out this write-up. Think PDF files are safe?

Vmware 74

Vmware Linux Storage Virtualization 74

Scott Lowe

MARCH 23, 2017

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. Acra is open source and available via GitHub.

Open Source 60

Open Source Storage Vmware Network 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

Scott Lowe

MARCH 1, 2019

I’m not sure how I missed that part 2 was published only 2 days later, so I’m rectifying that now. 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.). Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization.

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. 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. Operating Systems/Applications.

Linux 60

Linux Vmware Open Source Examples 60

Linux Academy

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

How to Get a Linux Job. Learn how to use the keyboard to work with your text documents, complete searches, replace text, and format. Learn how to use the keyboard to work with your text documents, complete searches, replace text, and format. Kubernetes The Hard Way. Included with Community Membership. Free Mastery Courses.

Course 104

Course Linux Devops Big Data 104

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.

Vmware 60

Vmware Storage Linux Network 60

Scott Lowe

APRIL 19, 2019

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. John Harris explains how to use dynamic configuration discovery in Grafana. Nothing this time.

Open Source 60

Open Source Tools Policies Cloud 60

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 29, 2016

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. Virtualization.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Open Source Data Center 60

Scott Lowe

APRIL 15, 2022

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. And it’s publicly available on GitHub , although not licensed with a typical open source license.

Linux 74

Linux Load Balancer IPv6 Licensing 74

Scott Lowe

MAY 4, 2017

Kristian Larsson shows how to validate data using YANG. Operating Systems/Applications. Ryan Kelly shows readers how to configure Harbor (open source container registry project) to use Amazon S3 for storage. Aaron Paxson demonstrates how to use Ansible to work with JSON-formatted structured data.

Vmware 60

Vmware Storage Network Examples 60

Scott Lowe

APRIL 24, 2020

Josh VanDeraa shows how to use Netmiko, NTC-Templates, Telegraf, Prometheus, and Grafana for monitoring VPN infrastructure (a more critical piece of infrastructure these days given all the remote work going on). 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, 2018

Brian Boucheron provides a great article on how to inspect and debug Kubernetes network primitives. Sathyajith Bhat covers five open source tools for container security. Cory O’Daniel explains how to use role-based access control to assign Pod Security Policies (PSPs) to Kubernetes workloads. Networking.

Hardware 60

Hardware Open Source Vmware 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 Gergely Nemeth shares how to leverage skaffold so you can use Kubernetes for local development. Operating Systems/Applications. Here’s YAKI (Yet Another Kubernetes Introduction).

Vmware 60

Vmware Storage Open Source Security 60

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 14, 2016

Steve Flanders has a good article explaining how to configure NSX to log to Log Insight (a task which, in my humble opinion, is far too complicated and needs to be simplified). This is a fascinating (to me, at least) paper on the implications of non-volatile storage on today’s data centers (and data center hardware). Servers/Hardware.

Vmware 60

Vmware Devops Storage Linux 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. Operating Systems/Applications. Who says you can’t please everyone all the time? Networking.

Vmware 60

Vmware Open Source Intel Applications 60

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 14, 2016

Steve Flanders has a good article explaining how to configure NSX to log to Log Insight (a task which, in my humble opinion, is far too complicated and needs to be simplified). This is a fascinating (to me, at least) paper on the implications of non-volatile storage on today’s data centers (and data center hardware). Servers/Hardware.

Devops 60

Devops Vmware Storage Open Source 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. The project itself is open source and hosted on GitHub. Operating Systems/Applications.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Open Source Devops 60

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 8, 2016

Will Robinson talks about how to structure your Ansible playbooks in the context of using Ansible to control your network gear. 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). Networking.

Vmware 60

Vmware Storage Intel Virtualization 60

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

I share this not to encourage illegal activities, but instead to point out that no operating system is secure, so be alert at all times and use good computing practices regardless of your OS. Ric Harvey shows how to automatically deploy Hugo updates using AWS CodeBuild. Operating Systems/Applications. Good stuff!

Load Balancer 60

Load Balancer Operating Systems Intel Hardware 60

Linux Academy

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

March Study Group Course: Linux Operating System Fundamentals – Have you heard of Linux, but don’t really know anything about it? Eschewing any technical practices, this course takes a high-level view of the history of Linux, the open-source movement, and how this powerful software is used today.

Linux 80

Linux Big Data Course Devops 80

Linux Academy

APRIL 29, 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 60

Linux Course Big Data Devops 60

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 19, 2018

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). Klaus Aschenbrenner shares how he designed his VMware vSAN-based home lab.

Vmware 60

Vmware Open Source Linux Cloud 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 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. Operating Systems/Applications. Networking.

Vmware 60

Vmware Network Linux Hardware 60

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 14, 2017

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). Vladan Seget shares how to create a VMware ESXi ISO image with the latest patches.

Load Balancer 60

Load Balancer Vmware Hardware Open Source 60

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

and how to use the Python SDK for NSX-T. Operating Systems/Applications. Nick Korte shares some “lessons learned” as his team explored VMware vSAN as a storage solution. Steve Tilkens has a review of some different storage options he’s explored in his VMware-based home lab.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Network Storage 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. The project itself is open source and hosted on GitHub. Operating Systems/Applications.

Vmware 60

Vmware Open Source Linux Devops 60

Dataconomy

APRIL 24, 2024

Ollama, a free, open-source tool, enables the operation of various large language models, such as Llama 3, on personal computers, even those with limited capabilities. It utilizes llama.cpp, an open-source library that optimizes the performance of LLMs on local machines with minimal hardware demands.

How To 41

How To Artificial Intelligence Open Source Operating Systems 41

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 11, 2016

Dwayne Sinclair covers the basics of SpoofGuard in NSX, and how to interact with SpoofGuard via API, in this article. The article talks about how to use the --allowed_address_pairs extension to build a highly-available proxy server instead of using LBaaS. What will happen when you combine GPUs and persistent storage?

Vmware 60

Vmware Hardware Storage Linux 60

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 17, 2020

How about a bash “wrapper” for working with AWS resources from the command line? Operating Systems/Applications. Giovanni Collazo shares how to configure iTerm2 to recognize macOS-specific keyboard shortcuts. As of January 14, Windows 7 is now End of Life (EOL), as pointed out here by Sergiu Gatlan.

Load Balancer 60

Load Balancer Vmware Windows Cloud 60