CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 17, 2023

Companies that have embraced the cloud need to understand the Shared Responsibility Model: a security and compliance framework that explains what shared infrastructure and systems the cloud provider is responsible for maintaining and how a customer is responsible for operating systems, data, and applications utilizing the cloud.

Cloud 95

Cloud How To Open Source Applications 95

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Networking. Ivan Pepelnjak addresses the idea that network automation is harmful. I believe that IT folks in all disciplines, including networking, need to embrace automation. The open source ko project has applied to become a CNCF Sandbox project. Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization.

Open Source 79

Open Source Apple Vmware Cloud 79

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

This session was titled “Carrier-Grade SDN Based OpenStack Networking Solution,” led by Daniel Park and Sangho Shin. Shin first provides some background on SKT, and discusses the steps that SKT has been taking to prepare their network for 5G infrastructure/services. exclusively leverages open source software.

Network 60

Network Virtualization Architecture Hardware 60

CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 25, 2022

What’s different now is that the concept of what will comprise a network node is changing rapidly, along with the number of interconnected devices. will introduce new dimensions of interaction such as virtual and decentralised 3D worlds and experiences. Operating Systems for the edge. Where Web 2.0

CTO 95

CTO Operating Systems Open Source 3D 95

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 31, 2021

Networking. Ivan Pepelnjak has a post on running network automation tools in a container. Tom Hollingsworth likens networking disaggregation to “cutting the cord” and switching away from cable. Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization. Bring on the content! Well worth reading! is available.

Open Source 94

Open Source Virtualization Applications Security 94

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 6, 2021

Networking. Back in April of this year, Patrick Ogenstad announced Netrasp , a Go package for writing network automation tooling in Go. I saw this blog post about Curiefense , an open source Envoy extension to add WAF (web application firewall) functionality to Envoy. Operating Systems/Applications.

Open Source 105

Open Source Load Balancer WAN Architecture 105

Scott Lowe

MAY 27, 2022

Networking. network virtualization). Is the relationship between network virtualization and service mesh closer than some folks might wish to admit? now has a follow-up exploit that exposes Aruba and Avaya network switches to remote code execution. Operating Systems/Applications. Kubernetes 1.24

Virtualization 79

Virtualization Storage Programming Network 79

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Networking. This article provides a few practical examples of how using VPC Endpoints to reduce network traffic moving through NAT Gateways can help save money. Ricardo Sueiras captured some great links on open source at AWS in this newsletter. Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization.

Devops 87

Devops Virtualization Engineering Storage 87

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 27, 2023

I’ve got another collection of links to articles on networking, security, cloud, programming, and career development—hopefully you find something useful! Networking William Morgan’s 2022 service mesh recap captures some of the significant events in service mesh in 2022, although through a Linkerd-colored lens.

Programming 90

Programming Open Source Cloud Devops 90

Cloud Musings

MARCH 9, 2018

According to the former Equifax CEO’s testimony to Congress , one of the primary causes of this now infamous data breach was the company’s failure to patch a critical vulnerability in the open source Apache Struts Web application framework. Equifax also waited a week to scan its network for apps that remained vulnerable. [1]

Operating Systems 79

Operating Systems Enterprise Enterprise Virtualization 79

Galido

MARCH 19, 2019

These areas of IT include general IT and technology, security, IT feeds, cloud computing, data center, mobile, social media, tips and tricks, virtualization, and operating system and software blogs. Network Computing. Operating System & Software Blogs. TechWorld – Operating Systems.

Resources 113

Resources Mobile Data Center Security 113

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Networking Brent Salisbury shares some code intended to help you “ChatGPT your project documentation.” This is a slightly older article (from January of this year) in which Josh Saul of Hedgehog pays homage to the achievements of Cumulus Networks in the open networking movement.

Vmware 74

Vmware Network Hardware Cloud 74

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. Denis Mulyalin shows how to use Nornir, Salt, and NetBox to template your network tests.

Programming 96

Programming Policies Network Cloud 96

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 6, 2021

Networking. Back in April of this year, Patrick Ogenstad announced Netrasp , a Go package for writing network automation tooling in Go. I saw this blog post about Curiefense , an open source Envoy extension to add WAF (web application firewall) functionality to Envoy. Operating Systems/Applications.

Open Source 60

Open Source Load Balancer WAN Architecture 60

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 27, 2019

Networking. Ahmet Alp Balkan talks about how the Knative Serving component addresses some key networking challenges within Kubernetes. Geert Baeke walks readers through deploying AKS with Nginx, External DNS, the Helm Operator, and Flux (all using an Azure DevOps pipeline, if I read the article correctly). Virtualization.

Open Source 60

Open Source Vmware Authentication Storage 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.

Linux 92

Linux Course Open Source Load Balancer 92

Galido

MAY 1, 2019

The deeper we dive into modern technology terms, the more it seems we try to blend physical and virtual worlds together. These areas of tech include general IT and technology, security, IT feeds, cloud computing, data center, mobile, social media, tips and tricks, virtualization, and operating system and software blogs.

Resources 107

Resources Mobile Data Center Security 107

Galido

MARCH 22, 2019

The deeper we dive into modern technology terms, the more it seems we try to blend physical and virtual worlds together. These areas of tech include general IT and technology, security, IT feeds, cloud computing, data center, mobile, social media, tips and tricks, virtualization, and operating system and software blogs.

Resources 107

Resources Mobile Data Center Security 107

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 28, 2016

Networking. The rise of Linux in importance in the networking industry continues, with Arista announcing enhancements to Arista EOS to support—among other things—Docker containers. See this SDx Central article or this Network World article for more details.). The project itself is open source and hosted on GitHub.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Open Source Devops 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 1, 2019

Networking. Daniel Dib has a great article on how network engineers need to evolve. The network isn’t going away, it’s just changing. I referenced part 1 of Ajay Chenampara’s series on the Ansible network-engine command parser back in Technology Short Take 102 (July of last year). Virtualization.

Operating Systems 60

Operating Systems Authentication Network Open Source 60

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Networking. Koyeb describes , at a high level, the global networking stack for their serverless platform. Components involved include the open source Kuma service mesh (in turn leveraging Envoy), anycast BGP, and mutual TLS (mTLS). Virtualization. I just came across this relatively-new EKS News site.

Storage 79

Storage Hardware Policies Open Source 79

Scott Lowe

JUNE 24, 2022

Networking. Tetragon is Isovalent’s newly open-sourced security framework. Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization. It’s been about a month since the last Technology Short Take, and in that time I’ve been gathering links that I wanted to share with my readers. (I Think again.

Vmware 74

Vmware Linux Storage Virtualization 74

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 6, 2013

Networking. In this post on why networking needs a Chaos Monkey , Mike Bushong applies to the terms to networks—a snowflake network is an intricately crafted network that is carefully tailored to utilize a custom subset of networking features unique to your environment. Here’s a good source.

Vmware 60

Vmware Storage Linux Network 60

Scott Lowe

MAY 25, 2017

Networking. I enjoyed Dave McCrory’s series on the future of the network (see part 1 , part 2 , part 3 , and part 4 —part 5 hadn’t gone live yet when I published this). Michael Kashin has a handy little tool that functions like ssh-copy-id on servers, but for network devices (leveraging Netmiko). Operating Systems/Applications.

Linux 60

Linux Open Source Network Vmware 60

Scott Lowe

MAY 25, 2017

Networking. I enjoyed Dave McCrory’s series on the future of the network (see part 1 , part 2 , part 3 , and part 4 —part 5 hadn’t gone live yet when I published this). Michael Kashin has a handy little tool that functions like ssh-copy-id on servers, but for network devices (leveraging Netmiko). Operating Systems/Applications.

Linux 60

Linux Open Source Network Vmware 60

Scott Lowe

MAY 3, 2019

Networking. Via the Kubernetes blog , Box announced it has open sourced a project called kube-iptables-tailer , which turns packet drops from iptables into Kubernetes events that can be logged for easier troubleshooting. Via BlueCat Networks, John Capobianco shares his network automation journey. Virtualization.

Vmware 60

Vmware Open Source Intel Applications 60

Galido

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

The deeper we dive into modern technology terms, the more it seems we try to blend physical and virtual worlds together. These areas of tech include general IT and technology, security, IT feeds, cloud computing, data center, mobile, social media, tips and tricks, virtualization, and operating system and software blogs.

Mobile 77

Mobile Data Center Security Virtualization 77

Linux Academy

MARCH 28, 2019

Kubernetes nodes rely on underlying virtual servers for both the master control plane and for worker nodes. It is important to use security tooling such as OpenSCAP, the open source version of the Security Content Automation Protocol, to harden virtual machine images prior to their deployment in virtual private clouds.

Policies 68

Policies Linux Security Virtualization 68

Galido

MARCH 19, 2019

These areas of IT include general IT and technology, security, IT feeds, cloud computing, data center, mobile, social media, tips and tricks, virtualization, and operating system and software blogs. Network Computing. Operating System & Software Blogs. TechWorld – Operating Systems.

Resources 66

Resources Mobile Data Center Security 66

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 28, 2016

Networking. The rise of Linux in importance in the networking industry continues, with Arista announcing enhancements to Arista EOS to support—among other things—Docker containers. See this SDx Central article or this Network World article for more details.). The project itself is open source and hosted on GitHub.

Vmware 60

Vmware Open Source Linux Devops 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 2, 2020

Networking. Said van de Klundert has a post on screen scraping basics for network engineers. For network engineers just getting started with network automation, I suspect that the information shared here may prove quite useful. For readers who may be new to networking, Daniel Wray has a write-up on network cabling.

Linux 60

Linux Windows Hardware Network 60

Scott Lowe

APRIL 19, 2019

Networking. Part 2 of Stark and Wayne’s container-to-container networking for Cloud Foundry and Kubernetes dig deep into CNI workings. Milind Gunjan shares some tips for troubleshooting Linux bridged networking on a KVM host. This article discusses four open source secrets management tools. Virtualization.

Open Source 60

Open Source Tools Policies Cloud 60

Scott Lowe

JULY 22, 2022

Networking. Operating Systems/Applications. Regardless, Paul does effectively point out some of the differences in building “traditional” software systems versus serverless systems. Virtualization. Interested in understanding how NAT Traversal works? Dan Lorenc takes the cover off OCI Artifacts.

System 79

System Open Source Cloud Policies 79

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 19, 2018

Networking. Matt Klein breaks down service mesh components , using terms networking professionals know well, like “data plane” and “control plane.” ” Those familiar with networking concepts will identify well with the ideas in this article, I think. Operating Systems/Applications.

Vmware 60

Vmware Open Source Linux Cloud 60

Scott Lowe

MAY 17, 2019

Networking. The CNCF blog has a great article written by an Alibaba software engineer (Xingyu Chen) on some performance optimizations for etcd that have been contributed back to the open source community. Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization. Servers/Hardware. Career/Soft Skills.

Linux 60

Linux Dell Open Source Licensing 60

Linux Academy

APRIL 30, 2019

LPI Linux Essentials — This course teaches the basic concepts of processes, programs, and the components of the Linux operating system. Introduction to Migrating Databases and Virtual Machines to Google Cloud Platform — This course covers the various issues of migrating databases and virtual machines to Google Cloud Platform.

Linux 113

Linux Course Big Data Devops 113

Scott Lowe

MARCH 17, 2016

Networking. At DevOps Networking Forum 2016, I had the opportunity to share a presentation on some Linux networking options. Here’s another topic that came up at the recent DevOps Networking Forum: Spotify’s SDN Internet Router (SIR). Here’s some information on Nuage Networks’ experimental Docker Network plugin.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Network Open Source 60