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Technology Short Take 138

Scott Lowe

Want/need to better understand IPv6? You may want to have a look at this software supply chain attack that takes advantage of the way these package managers handle dependencies. Operating Systems/Applications. Denise Fishburne has you covered. Denise also has you covered if you need BGP knowledge. x was now available.

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AWS Elastic Beanstalk: A Quick and Simple Way into the Cloud - All.

All Things Distributed

Flexibility is one of the key principles of Amazon Web Services - developers can select any programming language and software package, any operating system, any middleware and any database to build systems and applications that meet their requirements. New Route 53 and ELB features: IPv6, Zone Apex, WRR and more.

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Powerful New Amazon EC2 Boot Features - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

A wide variety of operating systems and software configurations is available for use. This allows for a very fine-grain control of software and data configuration. with more memory or CPU), a different operating system (e.g., New Route 53 and ELB features: IPv6, Zone Apex, WRR and more.

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Technology Short Take #77

Scott Lowe

In a bit of an older post from late summer 2016, Matt Oswalt outlines why network engineers should care about the network software supply chain. Simon Leinen (from SWITCHengines) explains their use of IPv6 with OpenStack. Operating Systems/Applications. John Kozej has a write-up on an NSX logical switch packet walk.

Linux 60
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Technology Short Take #49

Scott Lowe

I highly recommend you read the entire post, but in short the five skills Matt recommends are software skills (which includes configuration management and software development tools like Git ), Linux, deep protocol knowledge, hypervisor and container networking, and IPv6. Operating Systems/Applications.

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Setting up Wireguard for AWS VPC Access

Scott Lowe

At a high level, the process looks like this: Installing any necessary packages/software. The first thing to do, naturally, is install the necessary software. Installing Packages/Software. This page on the Wireguard site has full instructions for a variety of operating systems. Activating the VPN.

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Technology Short Take #65

Scott Lowe

BGP seems to be emerging as an early front-runner for a standards-based control plane for software networking. Operating Systems/Applications. Want to run Docker Swarm with IPv6? Brent Salisbury has an article on GoBGP , a Go-based BGP implementation. Andy Hill has an article on doing rolling F5 upgrades using Ansible.

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