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Technology Short Take 176

Scott Lowe

Networking Lee Briggs (formerly of Pulumi, now with Tailscale) shows how to use the Tailscale Operator to create “free” Kubernetes load balancers (“free” as in no additional charge above and beyond what it would normally cost to operate a Kubernetes cluster). Thanks for reading! This is a handy trick.

Linux 112
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Fountainhead: New AWS enable "Real" Elastic Clouds

Fountainhead

Amazon Elastic Load Balancing: A for-fee ($0.025/hour/balancer + $0.008/GB transferred) which automatically distributes incoming application traffic across multiple Amazon EC2 instances. Similarly, Egeneras PAN Manager approach dynamically load-balances networking traffic between newly-created instances of an App.

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Fountainhead: What Is Meant by a "Cloud-Ready" Application?

Fountainhead

unique network topology (including load balancing, firewalls, etc.). location of app images and VMs), network (including load balancing and. Balancing these. Cloud Computing Journal. But as I dug into the complexities of maintaining. sophisticated app landscapes, just dropping them onto a public IaaS.

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Fountainhead: CA's Acquisition of Cassatt - Hindsight & Foresight

Fountainhead

The instantiation of these observations was a product that put almost all of the datacenter on "autopilot" -- Servers, VMs, switches, load-balancers, even server power controllers and power strips. Does it sound like Amazons recent CloudWatch, Auto-Scaling and Elastic Load Balancing announcement? Cloud Computing Journal.

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Fountainhead: HPQ & CSCO: Analysis of New Blade Environments

Fountainhead

However, in the software domain, each still relies on multiple individual products to accomplish tasks such as SW provisioning, HA/availability, VM management, load balancing, etc. Cloud Computing Journal. So theres still that nasty need to integrate multiple products and to work across multiple GUIs. Peter Cochrane.

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CIOs Need To Realize That Virtualization Isn't All That It's Cracked Up To Be (a chief information officer needs an IT strategy to create IT alignment)

The Accidental Successful CIO

To read the IT trade journals or speak with CIOs you’d think that we’ve all found the magic silver bullet that IT’s been looking for during the past few years: server virtualization. Sure Virtualization Seems Neat In The Beginning, But…. No related posts.

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Fountainhead: An Ideal Datacenter-in-a-Box, Part II

Fountainhead

So, using the diagram from last week, the functionality maps as follows: PAN Builder: VM server management Physical server management Software (P & V) provisioning I/O virtualization & management IP load balancing Network virtualization & management Storage connection management Infrastructure provisioning Device (e.g.