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Technology Short Take 176

Scott Lowe

Ivan Pepelnjak dives deep on DHCP relaying on a Linux host. Rob McBryde shares his story of reviving a 2012 MacBook Pro with Linux. Security In early February a vulnerability was uncovered in a key component of the Linux boot process. Think Linux doesn’t have malware? TL;DR: It’s not as easy as it might seem.)

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Technology Short Take 116

Scott Lowe

If you’re unfamiliar with public key infrastructure (PKI), digital certificates, or encryption, you may find this Linux Journal article helpful. There are some notable caveats for this alpha support (CSI drivers only, same storage class, same namespace), but all these are laid out in Griffith’s article.

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Fountainhead: Infrastructure Orchestration in use within SPs.

Fountainhead

Infrastructure Orchestration abstracts and defines/configures the infrastructure world (I/O, NIC cards, HBA cards, storage connectivity, LANs, switches, etc.). So, not only can you define a virtual server instantly, you can define a *physical* server (maybe a virtual host, or a physical machine) down to I/O, NICs, Storage and Network.

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Technology Short Take 118

Scott Lowe

Network bonding in Linux—as outlined in this article —is something I may have to explore. What I’d really like to have is something like ControlPlane (née Marco Polo for the longtime Mac users), but for Linux. Ivan Velichko journals his journey of learning about containerization and orchestration in this blog post.

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IBM, Pivotal Team to Boost CloudFoundry » Data Center Knowledge

Data Center Knowledge

“IBM will incorporate Cloud Foundry into its open cloud architecture, and put its full support behind Cloud Foundry as an open and collaborative platform for cloud application development, as it has done historically for key technologies such as Linux and OpenStack.”. “We Storage Failures Hamper Cloud Foundry. Modular Data Centers.

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Technology Short Take #42

Scott Lowe

Linux Journal has a nice multi-page write-up on Docker containers that might be useful if you are still looking to understand Docker’s basic building blocks. Open vStorage compares itself to VMware VSAN, but supporting multiple storage backends and supporting multiple hypervisors. Technology Short Take #42.

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How Apple is making the antitrust case against it stronger

The Verge

You’ll probably want clients for Mac and Windows, iOS and Android, the open web, and — if you’re showing off — Linux. This is true even though Apple runs its own email platform, which is free but charges for extra storage, and gets to keep all that revenue for itself. Nathaniel Persily / The Wall Street Journal ). Industry. ?

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