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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.

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Technology Short Take 143

Scott Lowe

Here’s a quick look at using Envoy as a load balancer in Kubernetes. 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. Operating Systems/Applications.

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Why Kubernetes Is So Popular in the Tech World

Galido

This container management system obviously had a lot of potential since it comes from Google’s engineers. However, even though the project was promising, in 2015, Google released this tool as an open-source project. This system has many features, unlike other container management systems. A lot of features.

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IBM to Acquire Cloudant: Open, Cloud Database Service Helps Organizations Simplify Mobile, Web App and Big Data Development

CTOvision

Cloudant, an active participant and contributor to the open source database community Apache CouchDBTM , delivers high availability, elastic scalability and innovative mobile device synchronization. To meet this growing demand, data must be always available and easily accessed by massive volumes and networks of users and devices.

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The Internet of (Secure) Things – Embedding Security in the IoT

CTOvision

Homes/Offices : Companies and utilities are building sensors into major appliances and HVAC systems. You can opt-in to smart metering so that a utility can load balance energy distribution. That data is integrated with the building control system and room schedules to optimize energy consumption. weather reports).

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Changing the calculus of containers in the cloud

All Things Distributed

You should be able to write your code and have it run, without having to worry about configuring complex management tools, open source or not. Fargate has native integrations to Amazon VPC, Auto Scaling, Elastic Load Balancing, IAM roles, and Secrets Management. This is the vision behind AWS Fargate.

Cloud 149
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Technology Short Take 151

Scott Lowe

Nick Schmidt talks about using GitOps with the NSX Advanced Load Balancer. The story of a developer deliberately polluting their open source projects—as outlined here for the “colors.js” Operating Systems/Applications. Running Docker on an M1 Max-based system? Servers/Hardware.