Scott Lowe

AUGUST 6, 2021

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. It’s a good starting point for thinking about operating your own active-active architecture. Servers/Hardware.

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Kitaboo

APRIL 1, 2024

KITABOO KITABOO is a cloud-based digital textbook platform that offers a powerful and simple ePUB reader for a large range of operating systems and devices. Sigil Sigil, an open-source ePUB editor, offers various tools for generating and modifying ePUB files.

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Scott Lowe

JUNE 24, 2022

Tetragon is Isovalent’s newly open-sourced security framework. I also recently discovered Anaïs Urlichs’ weekly-but-not-so-weekly Seven-Day DevOps newsletter , which—like the rest of her site—has some great information. Operating Systems/Applications. Ars Technica has more information here.

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Well, let’s see…stuff on Envoy, network automation, network designs, M1 chips (and potential open source variants!), Are open source M1-style chips a possibility? See the vcluster web site or the GitHub repository for more information. Operating Systems/Applications. Thank you, Ben!

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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. There is a ton of information here! There’s quite a bit of good information there.

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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).

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 23, 2017

However, hopefully I’ve managed to gather together some articles with useful information for you. Acra is open source and available via GitHub. There’s some good information in this article; I recommend reading it. Here’s a post outlining some of VMware’s more prominent open source projects in the “cloud-native” space.

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Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Open source has become so critical to so many aspects of our computing infrastructure. This article is chock-full of useful information that, typically, can only be gathered from direct experience (like the note on using istioctl instead of the Istio Operator to avoid an issue when upgrading from 1.6 Good stuff here!

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Linux Vmware Open Source Examples 60

Scott Lowe

MAY 17, 2019

This article by Bob Killen provides a good foundation of information on understanding Kubernetes authentication (AuthN) and authorization (AuthZ; implemented via RBAC). Operating Systems/Applications. This article has good information on safely using /tmp and /var/tmp on systemd-powered Linux distributions.

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Linux Dell Open Source Licensing 60

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 29, 2016

Andrey Khomyakov shares some information on automating the setup of whitebox switches running Cumulus Linux in part 2 of this series on learning network automation. James Green shares some information on Docker Bench , a tool designed to help secure Docker environments. Operating Systems/Applications. Networking.

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Scott Lowe

AUGUST 6, 2021

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. It’s a good starting point for thinking about operating your own active-active architecture. Servers/Hardware.

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Open Source Load Balancer WAN Architecture 60

Scott Lowe

APRIL 19, 2019

Via Ivan Pepelnjak’s site, Albert Siersema shares some information on using Ansible to automate 802.1x 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.

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Open Source Tools Policies Cloud 60

Scott Lowe

APRIL 15, 2022

This article contains some good information on IPv6 for those who are just starting to get more familiar with it, although toward the end it turns into a bit of an advertisement. of Helm adds the ability to store and work with charts in container (OCI, Open Container Initiative) registries (instead of Helm repositories). Networking.

Linux 74

Linux Load Balancer IPv6 Licensing 74

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 6, 2013

Check out part 1 ( general introduction ) and part 2 ( distributed services ) for more information. Want some additional information on layer 2 and layer 3 services in VMware NSX? Here’s a good source. Operating Systems/Applications. Martijn Smit has launched a series of articles on VMware NSX. Any thoughts?

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Galido

JULY 20, 2018

Information Technology Blog - - iPhone Vs Android — A Comparative Study 2018 - Information Technology Blog. Apple has shown great skill in designing an easy-to-use mobile operating system, while Android has been increasingly developing their product to be more intuitive and give you more control over it’s OS and applications.

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Scott Lowe

JANUARY 14, 2016

Fortunately, Gal Sagie is sharing information via his blog; for example, here’s a post on Kuryr support for Docker Networking’s pluggable IPAM (IP address management). 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.

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Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 22, 2012

Lots of folks like using Dropbox , the ubiquitous store-and-sync cloud storage service; I am among them. To help address that, I looked around to find an open, interoperable way of adding an extra layer of encryption onto my data. A Mac port of the open source EncFS FUSE filesystem. Background. What You’ll Need.

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Open Source Storage Security Guidelines 137

Scott Lowe

MARCH 1, 2019

VyOS is an open source Linux-based network operating system.). Operating Systems/Applications. I’m not sure how I missed that part 2 was published only 2 days later, so I’m rectifying that now. Go check out part 2. Paul Fitzgerald shows how to use Hyper-V and Docker to build a VyOS 1.2.0

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Operating Systems Authentication Network Open Source 60

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

This time around, the content is a bit heavier on cloud management and applications/operating systems, but still lots of good content all the way around (I hope, anyway). Helpful and informative content, no question about it. This isn’t to say that they aren’t freely available, just not available under an open source license.).

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Scott Lowe

APRIL 3, 2016

Given the propensity for “real” information to get lost among all the pranks, I decided to push this article back to today. Unlike most of what is published around April Fools’ Day, hopefully everything here is helpful, informative, and useful! Photon Controller is open source and available from GitHub , so feel free to give it a spin.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 15, 2013

It’s hard to imagine Google or Amazon sharing information about their server platforms with Microsoft, as those companies believe the details of their infrastructure are a competitive advantage. Microsoft’s ‘Cloud Operating System’ 218,000 Servers in Microsoft Data Centers? Look here to find out.

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Scott Lowe

JANUARY 14, 2016

Fortunately, Gal Sagie is sharing information via his blog; for example, here’s a post on Kuryr support for Docker Networking’s pluggable IPAM (IP address management). 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.

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Devops Vmware Storage Open Source 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 2, 2020

For network engineers just getting started with network automation, I suspect that the information shared here may prove quite useful. Operating Systems/Applications. Here’s one approach to an informative and useful terminal/prompt configuration. Networking. Both are good articles. Not cool , Wacom. Virtualization.

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Linux Windows Hardware Network 60

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 5, 2012

There’s some additional information on the Quantum release on Folsom here. 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. storage enhancements.

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Storage Vmware Linux Virtualization 92

Scott Lowe

APRIL 8, 2013

If you’re not already familiar with this information, this is good reading. Nothing this time around, but I’ll stay alert for information I can include in the next Technology Short Take! Operating Systems/Applications. Cormac Hogan has more information in this blog post. Servers/Hardware.

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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. Students will get hands-on experience installing and configuring containers and thoughtfully selecting a persistent storage strategy. Courses Free in May. Then this course is for you.

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Linux Course Big Data Devops 113

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 11, 2019

Via Container Journal, tech journalist Bill Doerrfeld outlines how to use the open source Anchore Engine to perform Docker container image auditing. Matthew Sullivan shares some information on how his employer leverages the “cattle not pets” appraoch for managing infrastructure. Operating Systems/Applications.

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Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 5, 2018

The information in this article is a great foundation upon which to build, in my opinion. Sathyajith Bhat covers five open source tools for container security. The folks at Platform9 recently open-sourced a tool called etcdadm (inspired by kubeadm ). Operating Systems/Applications. Servers/Hardware.

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Hardware Open Source Vmware Linux 60

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

Operating Systems/Applications. Both articles contain good, albeit somewhat basic, information. Atomic Host will now include firewalld ; more information is available from Dusty Mabe here. Nick Korte shares some “lessons learned” as his team explored VMware vSAN as a storage solution.

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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.

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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.

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Scott Lowe

MAY 25, 2017

This is a slightly shorter TST than usual, which might be a nice break from the typical information overload. Operating Systems/Applications. I was recently reviewing some articles on Git, the popular distributed version control system, and came across a few related posts. Welcome to Technology Short Take #83!

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Scott Lowe

MAY 25, 2017

This is a slightly shorter TST than usual, which might be a nice break from the typical information overload. Operating Systems/Applications. I was recently reviewing some articles on Git, the popular distributed version control system, and came across a few related posts. Welcome to Technology Short Take #83!

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Linux Open Source Network Vmware 60

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 6, 2012

Operating Systems/Applications. I found this article on imperative vs. declarative system configuration is quite helpful in understanding Puppet’s declarative model. ” (Stu Miniman of Wikibon has more information here as well.) by Qlogic called “Mt. Apparently, “Mt. Until the 1.3

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Scott Lowe

MAY 4, 2017

It’s an incredibly well-written and informative article. Operating Systems/Applications. Ryan Kelly shows readers how to configure Harbor (open source container registry project) to use Amazon S3 for storage. I strongly recommend using this article to help further your understanding of AWS IAM policies.

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Vmware Storage Network Examples 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 Operating Systems/Applications. The Kubernetes blog has some more details on the Container Storage Interface (CSI) in Kubernetes 1.10, which has moved from alpha to beta as part of the 1.10

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Vmware Storage Open Source Security 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. Non-code contributions are, in my opinion, an important but oft-overlooked aspect of open source communities. Good stuff!

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