Scott Lowe

AUGUST 27, 2021

I have a fairly diverse set of links for readers this time around, covering topics from microchips to improving your writing, with stops along the way in topics like Kubernetes, virtualization, Linux, and the popular JSON-parsing tool jq. Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization. I hope you find something useful!

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Linux Load Balancer Malware Virtualization 90

Fountainhead

MARCH 25, 2013

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. landscape will include many servers (often virtual machines) linked by. unique network topology (including load balancing, firewalls, etc.). And the system gets another layer of complexity when you consider that. Balancing these.

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Scott Lowe

AUGUST 27, 2021

I have a fairly diverse set of links for readers this time around, covering topics from microchips to improving your writing, with stops along the way in topics like Kubernetes, virtualization, Linux, and the popular JSON-parsing tool jq along the way. Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization. Networking. Good stuff.

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Linux Load Balancer Malware Virtualization 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 6, 2021

Here’s a quick look at using Envoy as a load balancer in Kubernetes. Via Alex Mitelman’s Systems Design Weekly 015 , I was pointed to this AWS article on multi-site active-active architectures. Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization. I hope this collection of links has something useful for you!

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Open Source Load Balancer WAN Architecture 60

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 17, 2020

Eric Sloof mentions the NSX-T load balancing encyclopedia (found here ), which intends to be an authoritative resource to NSX-T load balancing configuration and management. Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization. Here’s hoping that I found something useful for you! Networking.

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Load Balancer Vmware Windows Cloud 60

Linux Academy

JUNE 3, 2019

If you’re new to this process, let me break this down for you: When you first log in to your cloud services provider console, you have to configure a Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), which requires networking knowledge. You have to launch the virtual servers, which means you need to: Choose an operating system.

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Linux Course Open Source Load Balancer 92

Galido

OCTOBER 20, 2018

How Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) Boosts Data Protection. When the merchant complies with this standard, it is easy for them to protect the data from security threats in the entire IT system. The only disadvantage of this system is the slowdown in information transmission occasioned by large data transmitted through the system.

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How To Load Balancer Security Cloud 84

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 14, 2017

Romain Decker has an “under the hood” look at the VMware NSX load balancer. This graphical summary of the AWS Application Load Balancer (ALB) is pretty handy. Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization. Servers/Hardware. Nothing this time (sorry!).

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Load Balancer Vmware Hardware Open Source 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. Daniel Sagi of Aqua Security explains the mechanics behind a Pod escape using file system mounts. Virtualization.

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Load Balancer Cloud Applications Vmware 60

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

The rise of the disaggregated network operating system (NOS) marches on: this time, it’s Big Switch Networks announcing expanded hardware support in Open Network Linux (ONL) , upon which its own NOS is based. Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization. This is an older article, but I don’t think I’ve mentioned it before now.

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Vmware Linux Storage Load Balancer 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. Virtualization. Servers/Hardware. Cabling is hardware, right?

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Linux Load Balancer IPv6 Licensing 74

GeekWire

AUGUST 15, 2020

As Hussey has explained over the years, he was trying to replace a system that was offering twice the performance at five-times the price. His education and work background were largely in finance, so he read volumes of tech literature and product manuals, ultimately building a load-balancer that did the job. Jeff Hussey.

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Network Load Balancer Exercises Meeting 109

Dataconomy

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

This is natural in today’s world where data is more valuable than gold because every information is now in the virtual environment and there is nothing that black hat hackers will not do to obtain it. A zip bomb on the other hand is a malicious ZIP file that is designed to overwhelm a computer system with data.

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Firewall Applications Examples Load Balancer 41

Linux Academy

MARCH 28, 2019

Fail fast has become learn fast where monitoring and scanning now provides the feedback we need to keep systems safe. Many organizations utilize on-premises systems until they literally burst into the public cloud to gain added capacity. The final piece of the puzzle is the ability for systems to deploy systems.

Open Source 60

Open Source Devops Linux Cloud 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. Virtualization. Julia Evans provides a quick overview of Wireshark. Mike Foley walks you through configuring TPM 2.0

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Load Balancer Virtualization Authentication Tools 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. I recently got turned on to Alex Mitelman’s System Design Weekly, which is like a super-cool version of Technology Short Takes but a bit more tightly focused.

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Vmware Hardware Load Balancer Apple 60

Linux Academy

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Cloud Systems Engineer, Amazon Web Services. It provides a huge range of virtual machines suitable for general purpose and specialized on-demand compute tasks. Ansible is a powerful automation tool that can be used for managing configuration state or even performing coordinated multi-system deployments. Difficulty: Beginner.

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Load Balancer Backup Applications Linux 19

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. As an aside, I do find it fascinating that new storage startups often emerge with support for Linux first, then add other operating systems afterward.). Virtualization. Yes, please! (I

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Vmware Linux Storage Network 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 17, 2018

Check out these articles talking about IPVS-based in-cluster load balancing , CoreDNS , dynamic kubelet configuration , and resizing persistent volumes in Kubernetes. Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization. Nathaniel Avery shares a tip on saving some money by using the right servers on Azure.

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Load Balancer Storage Network Linux 60

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 24, 2018

VPCs, or Virtual Private Clouds, are Amazon’s software-defined networking mechanism for workloads running on AWS.). Viktor van den Berg writes on deploying NSX load balancers with vRA. Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization. IPVLAN is a low-latency means of providing IP connectivity to containers.

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Vmware Load Balancer Network Open Source 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

Johnson shows a great diagram that reviews all the various types of VM-to-VM communications that can exist in modern data centers: VM-to-VM (on the same host) via the software-based virtual switch (could be speeds of 30 to 40 Gbps in this use case). Intel VT-c actually provides a couple of different ways to work in virtualized environments.

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Intel Virtualization Data Center Network 109

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

and their product (VirTool Network Analyzer) is aimed at providing some operational visibility into OpenStack virtual networks. 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. Virtualization. RIP Solaris.

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Storage Vmware Load Balancer Network 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. Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization. Many of these concepts had direct impacts on the design of Envoy.

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Load Balancer Operating Systems Intel Hardware 60

Fountainhead

JUNE 29, 2009

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. The two big recent entrants/announcements were Ciscos Unified Computing System (made this past March) and then HPs BladeSystem Matrix (made in June). Theyre also both teaming with virtualization providers, as well as hoping for success in cloud computing.

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Analysis HP Data Center Virtualization 147

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 5, 2012

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. Virtualization. Networking Security Storage Virtualization Automation KVM Linux OpenStack OSS OVS vCloud VMware'

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Storage Vmware Linux Virtualization 92

Scott Lowe

JUNE 8, 2018

Kamal Kyrala discusses a method for accessing Kubernetes Services without Ingress, NodePort, or load balancers. Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization. Here’s another one from David: running Juniper vQFX10K on ESXi 6.5. Personally, I’d love to see the KVM option explained.).

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Load Balancer Vmware Storage Intel 60

Dataconomy

JUNE 25, 2023

Financial motives : Online gaming is a lucrative business, with in-game purchases, subscriptions, and virtual economies generating substantial revenue. However, these complex systems can have vulnerabilities that malicious actors exploit to launch DDoS attacks.

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Media Development Load Balancer Financial 69

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. Good stuff!

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Network Load Balancer Storage Applications 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? Hadoop Quick Start — Hadoop has become a staple technology in the big data industry by enabling the storage and analysis of datasets so big that it would be otherwise impossible with traditional data systems.

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Linux Big Data Course Devops 80

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. Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization. Welcome to Technology Short Take #56! In this post, I’ve collected a few links on various data center technologies, news, events, and trends.

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Vmware Network Load Balancer Linux 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

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Baptiste Collard has a post on Kubernetes controllers for AWS load balancers. One takeaway from this post for me was that the new AWS load balancer controller uses a ton of annotations. Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization. Michael Heap shares how to deploy a Kong Gateway data plane with Pulumi.

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Load Balancer Vmware Operating Systems Architecture 94

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 17, 2015

Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization. William Lam breaks down the real value of load balancing your PSC in this in-depth article. This is an older post on OpenStack availability zones and host aggregates , but useful nevertheless (for me, at least). Want to run Docker Swarm on Azure? Good write-up.

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Vmware Linux Architecture Hardware 60

All Things Distributed

MARCH 26, 2018

Powering the virtual instances and other resources that make up the AWS Cloud are real physical data centers with AWS servers in them. By using zones, and failover mechanisms such as Elastic IP addresses and Elastic Load Balancing, you can provision your infrastructure with redundancy in mind. Virginia) Region.

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Load Balancer Data Center Architecture Network 134

Fountainhead

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. IO Virtualization: The “Hypervisor” for Your Infrastructure. More than ever in 2010, IO Virtualization (IOV) has been showing-up in products, written about, spoken about. IO Virtualization. Fountainhead. Monday, December 13, 2010.

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Virtualization Data Center Network Storage 157

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.

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Devops Strategy Applications Load Balancer 59

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 23, 2013

Fishbowl was using Latisys for colocation of its internal systems and intranet, while hosting customer-facing services with another managed hosting provider. Its customer systems were growing too fast for its previous provider. They manage dedicated firewalls for us, but as far as load balancers we use the cloud.

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