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. network virtualization).

Virtualization 79

Virtualization Storage Programming Network 79

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Operating Systems/Applications. Vivek Gite has instructions on how to install ffmepg with NVIDIA GPU acceleration. Cloudflare recently introduced its own object storage offering, announced in this blog post. Cloudflare recently introduced its own object storage offering, announced in this blog post. Virtualization.

IPv6 97

IPv6 Storage Hardware Vmware 97

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Bassem Rezkalla shows how to remove these stale clusters. Operating Systems/Applications. It would seem that macOS 13 “Ventura” has introduced some problems with USB storage; these problems crop up when working with Raspberry Pi systems. Virtualization. But is it really a virtual machine ?

Devops 87

Devops Virtualization Engineering Storage 87

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 31, 2021

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. Operating Systems/Applications.

Open Source 94

Open Source Virtualization Applications Security 94

Scott Lowe

APRIL 29, 2022

My link of links and articles from around the Internet is a bit light on networking and virtualization this time around, but heftier in the security, cloud, and OS/application sections. Operating Systems/Applications. See here for details on how to inspect them. Virtualization. Enjoy the content! Networking.

Linux 74

Linux Storage Programming Applications 74

Scott Lowe

JUNE 24, 2022

Scott Rosenberg has a piece on how to learn Tanzu. Operating Systems/Applications. Although it isn’t technically specific to storage, there are significant storage themes in this article on what might happen if you lock yourself out of your digital life. Virtualization. That’s handy. Scary stuff!

Vmware 74

Vmware Linux Storage Virtualization 74

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Operating Systems/Applications. Vivek Gite has instructions on how to install ffmepg with NVIDIA GPU acceleration. Cloudflare recently introduced its own object storage offering, announced in this blog post. Cloudflare recently introduced its own object storage offering, announced in this blog post. Virtualization.

IPv6 60

IPv6 Storage Hardware Vmware 60

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 105

Open Source Load Balancer WAN Architecture 105

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. Along the same lines as the previous bullet, here’s a write-up on how to encrypt your e-mails with PGP keys. Networking.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Storage Load Balancer 60

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

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. Here’s an article on how to get started with OrgFormation. Jorge de la Cruz shares how to install Kubernetes on Ubuntu 20.04.

Storage 79

Storage Hardware Policies Open Source 79

Scott Lowe

MAY 12, 2023

Operating Systems/Applications Just when you think you’re getting a handle on Git, then it all blows up in your face and you realize you have no idea how Git works. At least Nick Janetakis’ recent article can show you how to restore files to their latest commit (along with deleting untracked files, too).

Disaster Recovery 90

Disaster Recovery Security Storage Social 90

Scott Lowe

APRIL 6, 2017

Part 1 covers how to choose a Linux distribution, and part 2 discusses some security tips for installing Linux on your SysAdmin workstation. Operating Systems/Applications. Brandon Gordon shares how to use VMware Harbor and VMware Admiral in a vCloud Air Network (vCAN) environment for container management. Virtualization.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Storage Network 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. Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization. I hope you find something useful!

Linux 90

Linux Load Balancer Malware Virtualization 90

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. Storage Stephen Wagner discusses a situation in which all VMs are inaccessible after graceful cluster shutdown and restart.

Programming 90

Programming Open Source Cloud Devops 90

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. 3) Join us on YouTube!

Linux 113

Linux Course Big Data Devops 113

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.

Programming 96

Programming Policies Network Cloud 96

Dataconomy

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Server virtualization can do the trick for you if you also struggle to scale your applications to meet growing demands without breaking the bank. Server virtualization is a game-changing technology that has revolutionized the way organizations deploy and manage their IT infrastructure.

Virtualization 78

Virtualization Storage Hardware Disaster Recovery 78

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 All good stuff, thanks Mike!

Vmware 60

Vmware Storage Linux Network 60

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). Iman Tumorang shares how to use a private instance of Google Container Registry (GCR) from a Kubernetes cluster. Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization.

Storage 60

Storage Applications Programming Firewall 60

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. Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization.

Vmware 60

Vmware Virtualization Linux Windows 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. Virtualization.

Storage 92

Storage Vmware Linux Virtualization 92

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

As can be expected given the very recent release of Juno, the fall 2014 release of OpenStack, a number of Juno-specific “how to install” pages are popping up. Much of the content is similar to previous “how to install” guides that I’ve seen, but it might be useful to a few folks out there. Virtualization.

Vmware 69

Vmware Linux Storage Virtualization 69

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. Virtualization.

Open Source 60

Open Source Vmware Authentication Storage 60

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

AUGUST 21, 2020

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. Operating Systems/Applications. If you’re new to the GNOME desktop environment, Ori Alvarez’s article on how to create a GNOME desktop entry may be useful. ” Storage.

Handbook 60

Handbook Linux Storage Windows 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. Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization. Networking.

Linux 60

Linux Load Balancer Malware Virtualization 60

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

Linux Academy

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

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Course 104

Course Linux Devops Big Data 104

Scott Lowe

MAY 29, 2020

Banzai Cloud’s Toader Sebastian explains how to write WASM (WebAssembly) filters for Envoy and deploy those filters with Istio. This recent post by Eric Sloof shows how to do BGP neighbor adjacency between GNS3 and NSX-T 3.0. Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization.

Linux 60

Linux Virtualization Security Backup 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). Good stuff.

Vmware 60

Vmware Storage Intel Virtualization 60

Scott Lowe

JULY 22, 2013

The networking “old guard” likes to talk about how x86 servers and virtualization create network bottlenecks due to performance concerns, but as Ivan points out in this post , it’s rapidly becoming—or has already become—a non-issue. (By Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization.

Vmware 106

Vmware Virtualization Network Linux 106

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

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. This article walks users through how to work with OpenPGP repository signing keys without the use of apt-key.

Vmware 60

Vmware Storage Study Network 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 12, 2021

I didn’t do so well on storage links; apologies to my storage-focused friends! Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization. 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.

IPv6 60

IPv6 Network Storage Policies 60

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. Networking.

Vmware 60

Vmware Storage Network 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). Here’s a handy “how to” on assigning a specific floating IP address to an OpenStack instance. Virtualization.

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 Dwayne Sinclair covers the basics of SpoofGuard in NSX, and how to interact with SpoofGuard via API, in this article. Networking.

Vmware 60

Vmware Hardware Storage Linux 60

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 27, 2017

Russell Bryant has a post on Open Virtual Network (OVN) , a project within the Open vSwitch (OVS) community. At their scale—millions of customers—I can see why they’d need to carefully limit how far they push the support boundary.) Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization. Servers/Hardware.

Firewall 60

Firewall Virtualization Network Storage 60