Scott Lowe

JUNE 8, 2018

Kamal Kyrala discusses a method for accessing Kubernetes Services without Ingress, NodePort, or load balancers. AWS adds local NVMe storage to the M5 instance family; more details here. What I found interesting is that the local NVMe storage is also hardware encrypted. Operating Systems/Applications.

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Load Balancer Vmware Storage Intel 60

Scott Lowe

APRIL 15, 2022

Xavier Avrillier walks readers through using Antrea (a Kubernetes CNI built on top of Open vSwitch—a topic I’ve touched on a time or two) to provide on-premise load balancing in Kubernetes. Operating Systems/Applications. Steven Bright shows how to deploy Salt minions automatically using VMware Tools.

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Linux Load Balancer IPv6 Licensing 74

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 5, 2012

Some folks from Nicira (now part of VMware) recently published a blog post discussing the OVSDB IETF draft (see here ). 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. Operating Systems/Applications.

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Storage Vmware Linux Virtualization 92

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

Massimo Re Ferre has a great article discussing VMware Cloud on AWS versus Azure Stack and breaking down the differences between the two approaches. Operating Systems/Applications. I recently used a variation of the information in this article to keep OTR private keys in sync among a group of OS X-based systems.

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Storage Vmware Load Balancer Network 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

The “TL;DR” for those who are interested is that this solution bypasses the normal iptables layer involved in most Kubernetes implementations to load balance traffic directly to Pods in the cluster. Anthony Spiteri shares a Terraform configuration he created to deploy a sandbox Kubernetes cluster on VMware vSphere.

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Load Balancer Cloud Applications Vmware 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 27, 2021

Operating Systems/Applications. Rudi Martinsen has an article on changing the Avi load balancer license tier (this is in the context of using it with vSphere with Tanzu). This article provides some great “behind the scenes” information on AWS Lambda. This is a great article on using jq with kubectl.

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Linux Load Balancer Malware Virtualization 60

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

Continuing on that Envoy theme, you may find this article by Matt Klein—one of the primary authors of Envoy—helpful in understanding some of the concepts behind modern load balancing and proxying. Fellow VMware alum Steve Flanders has a write-up on running Kubernetes locally (on a Mac). Servers/Hardware. Good stuff!

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Load Balancer Operating Systems Intel Hardware 60

Scott Lowe

JUNE 21, 2019

David Holder walks through removing unused load balancer IP allocations in NSX-T when used with PKS. Operating Systems/Applications. Cormac Hogan has recently published three good articles on storage in Kubernetes (the articles are all part of a larger “Kubernetes Storage on vSphere” series).

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Network Load Balancer Storage Applications 60

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

Operating Systems/Applications. William Lam shares an article on using Ansible to provision Kubernetes on VMware Photon. Is VMware headed to turning VSAN into a generic storage platform that is no longer tied to vSphere? In case you missed it, Docker 1.9 Docker and Solaris Zones? Interesting combination.

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Vmware Network Load Balancer Linux 60

Scott Lowe

JULY 13, 2018

Bernd Malmqvist talks about Avi Networks’ software-defined load balancing solution, including providing an overview of how to use Vagrant to test it yourself. Operating Systems/Applications. Cormac Hogan walks through setting up the Minio object store on top of VMware vSAN. Virtualization. on a vSphere 6.7

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Load Balancer Virtualization Authentication Tools 60

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 17, 2015

Looking for a step-by-step install guide for VMware NSX? Ray Budavari—who is an absolutely fantastic NSX resource—has a blog post up on the integration between VMware NSX and vRealize Automation. Operating Systems/Applications. William Lam breaks down the real value of load balancing your PSC in this in-depth article.

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Vmware Linux Architecture Hardware 60

The Accidental Successful CIO

AUGUST 3, 2011

Things like what operating system an application used no longer mattered – you could mix and match to your heart’s content. Kotsovinos points out that a VM is really a collection of interconnected physical subsystems : server, storage, and network. No longer will the storage team be able to just focus on storage issues.

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Virtualization Load Balancer Data Center Vmware 100

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 6, 2012

Bruce Davie and Martin Casado (with Nicira, now part of VMware) have written a post comparing the VXLAN and STT tunneling protocols. Operating Systems/Applications. I found this article on imperative vs. declarative system configuration is quite helpful in understanding Puppet’s declarative model. Until the 1.3

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Vmware Virtualization Storage Hardware 109

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

This time around, the content is a bit heavier on cloud management and applications/operating systems, but still lots of good content all the way around (I hope, anyway). Here’s a nice article on a multi-action security workflow built using VMware NSX, vShield Endpoint, and vCenter Orchestrator. Operating Systems/Applications.

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Open Source Vmware Network IBM 60