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. Interesting article here on Chick-Fil-A’s use of Kubernetes in their restaurants, and the tools/process they follow for establishing those clusters.

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Load Balancer Virtualization Authentication Tools 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. Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization. Unfortunately, this appears to be GKE-specific.

Load Balancer 60

Load Balancer Cloud Applications Vmware 60

Scott Lowe

JUNE 8, 2018

Kamal Kyrala discusses a method for accessing Kubernetes Services without Ingress, NodePort, or load balancers. Operating Systems/Applications. Google recently announced kustomize , a tool that provides a new approach to customizing Kubernetes object configuration. Handy tool! Virtualization.

Load Balancer 60

Load Balancer Vmware Storage Intel 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. Google’s Project Zero team posted an update on finding and exploiting Safari bugs using publicly available tools.

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Load Balancer Operating Systems Intel Hardware 60

Scott Lowe

APRIL 6, 2017

Operating Systems/Applications. Here’s a Windows-centric walkthrough to using Nginx to load balance across a Docker Swarm cluster. Red Hat discusses efforts around containerizing open-vm-tools to better support the use of Atomic OS instances running on VMware infrastructure. Virtualization. Yes, please! (I

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Storage Network 60

Scott Lowe

JUNE 18, 2021

The first is a post on Cilium and F5 load balancer integration , while the second discusses implementing Kubernetes network policies with Cilium and Linkerd. SentinelOne shares a list of “must-have” apps and tools for hackers working on a Mac. Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization.

Vmware 60

Vmware Hardware Load Balancer Apple 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

Jason Edelman of Network2Code also has a post on intent-based network automation with Ansible , in which he breaks down the idea of intent-based networking (IBN) and how tools such as Ansible or NAPALM can make it possible. ” If your shop is into OpenStack, you might want to give this tool a look. Operating Systems/Applications.

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Storage Vmware Load Balancer Network 60

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

Open Virtual Network (OVN) is really ramping up and getting lots of attention, which I personally think is absolutely well-deserved. Sean Collins has an article on building a cheap, compact, and multinode DevStack environment for a home lab that lays out some server hardware decisions and the tools he uses to manage them. Networking.

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Vmware Network Load Balancer Linux 60

Linux Academy

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

March Study Group Course: Linux Operating System Fundamentals – Have you heard of Linux, but don’t really know anything about it? Students will explore how containers work, how they compare with virtual machines and Docker containers, and how they handle application isolation. No prior AWS experience is required.

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Linux Big Data Course Devops 80

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. Virtualization. These two articles are interesting (to me) because they combine both network automation and Kubernetes. I’m looking forward to seeing how NaaS evolves.

Network 60

Network Load Balancer Storage Applications 60

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 17, 2015

ACS offers multiple “endpoints,” each of which enables you to use a particular open source container/orchestration tool. For example, there is a Docker Swarm endpoint, against which you could use standard Docker tools (like Docker Compose, for example). Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Architecture Hardware 60

The Accidental Successful CIO

AUGUST 3, 2011

Sure Virtualization Seems Neat In The Beginning, But…. 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. Virtualization has its own set of problems and we need to have a talk….

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Virtualization Load Balancer Data Center Vmware 100

KineticData

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Containerization allows us to abstract the operating system that our application runs on into the “container” that the application is running in, as well as any related dependencies. For example, for an application that runs in the JVM (Java Virtual Machine), we package the JVM into the container as well as the application.

Devops 59

Devops Strategy Applications Load Balancer 59

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

The first concept that Recep discusses is network virtualization. He believes that network virtualization is primarily about decoupling network services from the underlying network infrastructure. The specific terminology involved is that the virtual switches become a VTEP, a virtual tunnel end-point.

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Intel Load Balancer Architecture Virtualization 61