Linux Academy

DECEMBER 1, 2019

To continually support your mission to learn and grow, we are always adding new, free courses and resources for developing Linux and Cloud skills. Members of the Linux Academy community come together and share their insights and questions. Microsoft SQL Server on Linux Quick Start. How to Get a Linux Job.

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Scott Lowe

APRIL 15, 2022

Arthur Chiao’s post on cracking kube-proxy is also an excellent resource—in fact, there’s so much information packed in there you may need to read it more than once. Although Linux is often considered to be superior to Windows and macOS with regard to security, it is not without its own security flaws. Start here.

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Linux Academy

JULY 30, 2019

To continually support you in your mission to learn and grow we are always adding new courses and resources. Our free cloud training allows students to begin developing their Linux and Cloud skills. Visit the Linux Academy Booth at Black Hat or find Ell at any of the other Hacker Summer Camp events! How to Get a Linux Job.

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Linux Academy

JUNE 17, 2019

Ansible is an open source tool that has been backed by Red Hat since 2015. It is also lightweight, which means it doesn’t require a lot of computer resources to run. But y ou can do all of that and more in our free Ansible Quick Start course on Linux Academy , right now. LPI Linux Essentials 1.6. New Releases.

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Linux Academy

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

To continually support your mission to learn and grow, we are always adding new, free courses and resources for developing Linux and Cloud skills. Members of the Linux Academy community come together and share their insights and questions. How to Get a Linux Job. Build Your Own Linux From Scratch.

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Linux Course Devops Big Data 22

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 27, 2023

Back in October of last year, Tom Hollingsworth weighed in on Hedgehog , the networking company that has set out to commercialize SONiC, a Linux-based NOS used extensively in Azure. Rory McCune shares some information on configuring Caddy , a Go-based open source web server. Servers/Hardware What do you think of the ThinkPhone

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Linux Academy

MARCH 28, 2019

By using the Kubernetes Metrics Server or metrics from tools such as Prometheus, a cluster may respond to resource demands when pre-programmed thresholds are surpassed. These solutions are proven to provide elasticity within clusters and provided a great buffer to prevent outages or resource overrun conditions.

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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. Via Mike Foley , the community now has a new resource to help educate on VM escapes. Alpine Linux 3.5 Nothing this time around! as a VPN endpoint for iOS and OS X.

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Vmware Linux Open Source Data Center 60

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 27, 2019

Cole Atkinson discusses the fact that osxfuse is no longer open source , and the ramifications of this development on open source in general. Bjoern Brundert has a collection of resources for Project Pacific (announced at VMworld 2019). Be sure to check them out ( part 2 , part 3 , part 4 , and part 5 )!

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Linux Academy

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

To continually support your mission to learn and grow, we are always adding new, free courses and resources for developing Linux and Cloud skills. Members of the Linux Academy community come together and share their insights and questions. Microsoft SQL Server on Linux Quick Start. How to Get a Linux Job.

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Course Linux Devops Big Data 15

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. Welcome to Technology Short Take #165! Denis Mulyalin shows how to use Nornir, Salt, and NetBox to template your network tests.

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Linux Academy

AUGUST 29, 2019

To continually support you in your mission to learn and grow we are always adding new courses and free resources to begin developing your Linux and Cloud skills. Courses Free in September: Microsoft SQL Server On Linux Quick Start. Linux Networking and Trouble Shooting. How to Get a Linux Job. Git Quick Start.

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Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 5, 2012

This is my first time publishing a Technology Short Take with my new filesystem-based approach of managing resources. 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. storage enhancements. Networking.

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Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 24, 2012

It’s been over four months since my last post on open source Puppet , when I posted some updated multi-OS Puppet configurations. The key to making it work is the idea of a virtual resource. The Puppet Labs site does a much better job of explaining virtual resources. Realize the virtual user resources where needed.

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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). VMware open-sourced an identity and access management service called Lightwave ( project web site , GitHub repo ).

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Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 5, 2018

Sathyajith Bhat covers five open source tools for container security. The folks at Platform9 recently open-sourced a tool called etcdadm (inspired by kubeadm ). It might be worth watching as eBPF grows in importance in the Linux community, though. Here’s a nice deep dive on Linux executables.

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 23, 2017

As opposed to just encrypting data at the transport level (although Acra does that between components of its architecture) or just encrypting data at the storage level (using an encrypted file system or similar), Acra targets encrypting data at the table/row/column level within a database. Acra is open source and available via GitHub.

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 17, 2016

At DevOps Networking Forum 2016, I had the opportunity to share a presentation on some Linux networking options. Matt Oswalt recently unveiled (and open sourced) a framework called ToDD, which stands for “Testing on Demand: Distributed”. You may also find this (related) article on memory inside Linux containers to be helpful.

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 2, 2017

Skydive is (in the project’s own words) an “open source real-time network topology and protocols analyzer.” Here’s a walkthrough to install Arch Linux on VirtualBox. Here’s a list of some open source Docker-related tools that developers may find useful. Thinking of virtualizing Linux on Hyper-V?

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Linux Academy

JULY 30, 2019

To continually support you in your mission to learn and grow we are always adding new courses and resources. Our free cloud training allows students to begin developing their Linux and Cloud skills. Visit the Linux Academy Booth at Black Hat or find Ell at any of the other Hacker Summer Camp events! How to Get a Linux Job.

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Course Linux Devops Cloud 12

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 19, 2018

Barry Peddycord shares an update on Ansible support for the Cumulus Linux NCLU. Via Maish Saidel-Keesing, I saw this post about 10 open source Kubernetes tools for highly effective SRE and Ops teams. Richard Boswell has a series going on VMware Integrated OpenStack (VIO) and resource schedulers that is (so far) pretty good.

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Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 6, 2019

Brent Salisbury’s post on Golang for Network Ops not only points out why networking pros should learn Golang, but also provides some resources on how to learn it. A new VPN security flaw has been uncovered that affects a wide range of UNIX- and Linux-based systems. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Nothing this time; sorry!

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Scott Lowe

MAY 4, 2017

If you’re trying to wrap your head around AWS IAM policies, I have yet to find a resource I can recommend more strongly than this article on AWS IAM policies in a nutshell. Ryan Kelly shows readers how to configure Harbor (open source container registry project) to use Amazon S3 for storage. Virtualization.

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Dataconomy

JUNE 9, 2023

Profilers are commonly used to measure the code’s performance and resource usage during execution. Provides a more accurate representation of the code’s behavior but may require more resources and time for analysis. They provide information about resource usage, execution times, and method-level performance.

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Scott Lowe

AUGUST 11, 2016

First, OHMS is open source (find it here on GitHub ); second, OHMS appears to interact with/integrate with/support Redfish, a hardware-level API I first discussed back in 2014. What will happen when you combine GPUs and persistent storage? Is the era of the storage admin over ? Virtualization. Version 2.0

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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). VMware open-sourced an identity and access management service called Lightwave ( project web site , GitHub repo ).

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CTOvision

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

Attendees will have the opportunity to attend expert briefings, learn from and network with experienced practitioners, and ask questions to advance their agency data analytics initiatives and save their organization’s time, funding, and staff resources. High Performance Computing Lead, NASA Center for Climate Simulation (NCCS). Eddie Garcia.

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CTOvision

JANUARY 18, 2015

Attendees will have the opportunity to attend expert briefings, learn from and network with experienced practitioners, and ask questions to advance their agency data analytics initiatives and save their organization’s time, funding, and staff resources. High Performance Computing Lead, NASA Center for Climate Simulation (NCCS). Eddie Garcia.

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

To help resolve this issue, Cumulus Networks (and possibly Metacloud, I’m not sure of their involvement yet) has release an open source project called vxfld. Running Hyper-V with Linux VMs? Ben Armstrong details what versions of Linux support the various Hyper-V features in this post. Operating Systems/Applications.

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Scott Lowe

MAY 11, 2018

” While the post is clearly Sysdig-oriented (as would be fully expected), it’s also cool to see how powerful the assembly of various open source projects can be. This is a lesson VMware learned years ago with Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS). Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Operating Systems/Applications.

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 11, 2014

The best way to describe Docker is to use the phrase from the Docker web site—Docker is “an open source project to pack, ship and run any application as a lightweight container.” LTS as the Linux platform. linux-headers-generic-lts-raring. Similar Posts: A Brief Introduction to Linux Containers with LXC.

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ForAllSecure

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

I mean, it was open source, right? And this is open source software, meaning that there’s some developers or some project behind it that has already built out the basics of what you need to put it into your code and start using it. And is it better to be open source or commercial. No shame in that.

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ForAllSecure

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

I mean, it was open source, right? And this is open source software, meaning that there’s some developers or some project behind it that has already built out the basics of what you need to put it into your code and start using it. And is it better to be open source or commercial. No shame in that.

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Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 17, 2015

Ray Budavari—who is an absolutely fantastic NSX resource—has a blog post up on the integration between VMware NSX and vRealize Automation. If you’d like to play around with Cumulus Linux but don’t have a compatible hardware switch, Cumulus VX is the answer. Looking for a step-by-step install guide for VMware NSX? Why, yes, thanks.

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ForAllSecure

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

I mean, it was open source, right? And this is open source software, meaning that there’s some developers or some project behind it that has already built out the basics of what you need to put it into your code and start using it. And is it better to be open source or commercial. No shame in that.

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Open Source Tools Security Software 52

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

Bird , by the way, is an open source routing daemon for Linux, *BSD, and other UNIX-like operating systems.). That’s why I’m including these links on using Docker and Google Compute Engine to run a Minecraft server ( part 1 on using GCE and Docker , part 2 on persistent storage with a containerized Minecraft server ).

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Scott Lowe

JULY 14, 2015

Although slanted toward Network Functions Virtualization (NFV), this is a good article about why open source—and OpenStack, in particular—isn’t necessarily “free.”. Speaking of VIO…interesting in trying it out, but don’t have the resources in your (work or home) lab? Thanks for sharing your experiences, Cormac! Good stuff.

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