CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 15, 2022

They can do it themselves by hiring more people and aggressively taking advantage of tools and services from the major cloud providers. Maintained audit control of open source applications running in your cloud-native or containerized workloads? Open source applications running in the cloud need to be copyrighted.

Cloud 141

Cloud Open Source Applications Storage 141

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 31, 2021

Ivan Pepelnjak has a post on running network automation tools in a container. In fact, he’s already built some container images, and the post has information on running tools from his prebuilt container image. Operating Systems/Applications. Bring on the content! Networking. Well worth reading! Virtualization.

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Open Source Virtualization Applications Security 94

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 6, 2021

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. I really enjoy these AWS open source news and updates posts.

Open Source 105

Open Source Load Balancer WAN Architecture 105

Scott Lowe

MAY 27, 2022

marks the first release of the open source container orchestration platform that is signed using Sigstore (more details here ). Operating Systems/Applications. For relevant storage news, I’d recommend having a look at J Metz’ Storage Short Take 42. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Kubernetes 1.24

Virtualization 79

Virtualization Storage Programming Network 79

Scott Lowe

JUNE 24, 2022

Tetragon is Isovalent’s newly open-sourced security framework. While his post specifically addresses the AWS CDK, I think that some of his conclusions could also be applicable to other “infrastructure-as- actual -code” tools like Pulumi. Operating Systems/Applications. Check out this write-up.

Vmware 74

Vmware Linux Storage Virtualization 74

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 27, 2019

Operating Systems/Applications. Continuing his focus on cloud-init , Luc Dekens has added four more articles to his site discussing this tool. Cole Atkinson discusses the fact that osxfuse is no longer open source , and the ramifications of this development on open source in general.

Open Source 60

Open Source Vmware Authentication Storage 60

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 27, 2023

This article by Brian Caffey on deploying the same web application on ECS Fargate using three different IaC tools (CDK, Terraform, and Pulumi) has some really great and useful information in it. Operating Systems/Applications Dewan Ahmed has a great run-down on options for documentation-as-code.

Programming 90

Programming Open Source Cloud Devops 90

Scott Lowe

MARCH 23, 2017

From my perspective, Ansible has jumped out in front in the race among tools for network automation; I’m seeing more coverage and more interest in using Ansible for network automation. Acra is open source and available via GitHub. Operating Systems/Applications. Some of these you’ve probably heard of, some not.

Open Source 60

Open Source Storage Vmware Network 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Well, let’s see…stuff on Envoy, network automation, network designs, M1 chips (and potential open source variants!), Are open source M1-style chips a possibility? Operating Systems/Applications. Welcome to Technology Short Take #145! What will you find in this Tech Short Take? Thank you, Ben!

Open Source 60

Open Source Cloud Network Storage 60

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 23, 2020

I think a fair number of folks may not be aware that the Nginx ingress controller for Kubernetes—both the community version and the Nginx-maintained open source version—do suffer from timeouts and errors resulting from changes in the back-end application’s list of endpoints (think pods being added or removed).

Open Source 60

Open Source Vmware Disaster Recovery Linux 60

Scott Lowe

APRIL 19, 2019

Sysdig explains PSPs, and talks about kube-psp-advisor , a tool to help simplify deploying PSPs. ClusterScope is a handy tool for finding outdated images in your Kubernetes cluster. This article discusses four open source secrets management tools. ” Operating Systems/Applications.

Open Source 60

Open Source Tools Policies Cloud 60

Scott Lowe

APRIL 24, 2020

I recently stumbled across this regular list of AWS open source news and updates by Ricardo Sueiras. William Lam has a list of useful interactive and graphical UI tools for Kubernetes. Operating Systems/Applications. I also really liked his post on text processing tools. Personally, I prefer ktx.

Storage 60

Storage Tools Architecture Network 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 6, 2021

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. I really enjoy these AWS open source news and updates posts.

Open Source 60

Open Source Load Balancer WAN Architecture 60

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Open source has become so critical to so many aspects of our computing infrastructure. OpenCSPM looks like it could be quite a useful tool. I recently stumbled across Ricardo Sueiras’ “AWS open source news and updates” posts. Operating Systems/Applications. Congrats, Isovalent team!

Linux 60

Linux Vmware Open Source Examples 60

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. Welcome to Technology Short Take #165! Denis Mulyalin shows how to use Nornir, Salt, and NetBox to template your network tests.

Programming 96

Programming Policies Network Cloud 96

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 29, 2016

James Green shares some information on Docker Bench , a tool designed to help secure Docker environments. Operating Systems/Applications. could make RDP connections to modern Windows systems. Jase McCarty talks about how to backup or recover storage policy-based management (SPBM) profiles. Servers/Hardware.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Open Source Data Center 60

Scott Lowe

JULY 5, 2019

As would be expected with any maturing open source project that is starting to see increased adoption, Kubernetes has seen its share of security vulnerabilities over the last couple of months. Operating Systems/Applications. It provides the basics behind X.509v3 Plus, there are some handy openssl commands! Kubernetes 1.15

Storage 60

Storage Hardware Open Source Vmware 60

Linux Academy

APRIL 30, 2019

Join Ell Marquez (Jupiter Broadcasting/Linux Academy) and Tony Lambert (redcanary.com) in discussing a common sense approach to threat detection using only command line tools. LPI Linux Essentials — This course teaches the basic concepts of processes, programs, and the components of the Linux operating system.

Linux 113

Linux Course Big Data Devops 113

Scott Lowe

MARCH 20, 2020

This blending of “traditional” network engineering with containers, Linux, and DevOps tooling is how Matt is setting new trends and directions for the networking industry. Operating Systems/Applications. Kornelis Sietsma looks at the options for working with multiple git identities on a single system.

Linux 60

Linux Vmware Authentication Storage 60

Linux Academy

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

Students will learn by doing through installing and configuring containers and thoughtfully selecting a persistent storage strategy. Additionally, we’ll use some common Linux tools, like grep and sed for some front-end regex use examples. YAML is a popular choice for data storage, configuration files, configurations management, etc.

Course 104

Course Linux Devops Big Data 104

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 5, 2018

Sathyajith Bhat covers five open source tools for container security. The kubespy tool, released by the Pulumi folks, looks interesting. Have a look at part 1 and part 2 of their blog posts about the CLI tool. The folks at Platform9 recently open-sourced a tool called etcdadm (inspired by kubeadm ).

Hardware 60

Hardware Open Source Vmware Linux 60

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 6, 2013

Operating Systems/Applications. While written for OS X, most of these tips apply to Linux or other Unix-like operating systems as well. “Captain KVM,” aka Jon Benedict, takes on the discussion of enterprise storage vs. open source storage solutions in OpenStack environments.

Vmware 60

Vmware Storage Linux Network 60

Scott Lowe

APRIL 15, 2022

Ajeet Singh Raina shares a list of the top 200 Kubernetes tools for DevOps engineers. Operating Systems/Applications. Steven Bright shows how to deploy Salt minions automatically using VMware Tools. And it’s publicly available on GitHub , although not licensed with a typical open source license.

Linux 74

Linux Load Balancer IPv6 Licensing 74

Scott Lowe

MAY 3, 2019

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. I recently read about the Evil-Twin Framework (ETF) , a tool for doing some wireless penetration testing.

Vmware 60

Vmware Open Source Intel Applications 60

GeekWire

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

“Whether companies are pursuing space ventures of their own or maturing cutting-edge systems to one day offer a new service to NASA, the agency is dedicated to helping bring new capabilities to market for our mutual benefit.”. Northrop Grumman Space Systems) of Dulles, Va., Kent, Wash.-based Elementum 3D of Erie, Colo.,

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Research System Development Energy 123

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 14, 2016

NAPALM (Network Automation and Programmability Layer with Multivendor support) looks like a really cool tool. This is a good introductory post, and one that I plan to leverage as I dive deeper into these tools. VMware open-sourced an identity and access management service called Lightwave ( project web site , GitHub repo ).

Vmware 60

Vmware Devops Storage Linux 60

Kitaboo

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Being a free, open-source, popular platform makes Calibre one of the best ePUB readers to date, which essentially created the groundwork for more sophisticated technologies. A very basic tool, Sumatra features a practical design that may appear amateurish at first. A large community of developers and testers support Calibre.

Windows 78

Windows eBook Adobe Cloud 78

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 19, 2018

Via Maish Saidel-Keesing, I saw this post about 10 open source Kubernetes tools for highly effective SRE and Ops teams. Operating Systems/Applications. This is a tool I’d like to take for a spin as soon as I get a chance. release of Kubernetes. PowerShell Core 6.0 is now GA and supported by Microsoft.

Vmware 60

Vmware Open Source Linux Cloud 60

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 11, 2019

Niels Hagoort talks about some network troubleshooting tools in a vSphere/ESXi environment. Via Container Journal, tech journalist Bill Doerrfeld outlines how to use the open source Anchore Engine to perform Docker container image auditing. Operating Systems/Applications. Servers/Hardware. OS/2 lives on.

Open Source 60

Open Source Virtualization Storage Cloud 60

Scott Lowe

APRIL 8, 2013

He describes cloud as the synthesis of many different forms of innovation within IT , pulling together things like open source, virtualization, distributed programming, NoSQL, DevOps/NoOps, distributed teams, dynamic languages, and Big Data (among others). Operating Systems/Applications. Go ahead, read up on YAML.

Storage 111

Storage Vmware WAN Virtualization 111

Scott Lowe

MARCH 2, 2017

Skydive is (in the project’s own words) an “open source real-time network topology and protocols analyzer.” Tony Sangha took PowerNSX (a set of PowerShell cmdlets for interacting with NSX) and created a tool to help document the NSX Distributed Firewall configuration. Operating Systems/Applications. What’s that?

Linux 60

Linux Devops Open Source Virtualization 60

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

but we’ll stick it here anyway: check out this blog post on cilium-health , a tool for troubleshooting cluster connectivity. This article by Sjors Robroek shows one approach to appropriately protecting credentials when using automation tools. Operating Systems/Applications. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Network Storage 60

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

Google’s Project Zero team posted an update on finding and exploiting Safari bugs using publicly available tools. I share this not to encourage illegal activities, but instead to point out that no operating system is secure, so be alert at all times and use good computing practices regardless of your OS. Good stuff!

Load Balancer 60

Load Balancer Operating Systems Intel Hardware 60

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 8, 2016

I noted that a Vagrant provider for vRealize Automation was recently released as an open source project. Operating Systems/Applications. Consul is a HashiCorp tool I’ve written about before (see my quick introduction to Consul ), and I recently saw that the 0.7.1 Blueprints that demonstrate VMware-Chef integration.

Vmware 60

Vmware Storage Intel Virtualization 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 11, 2016

First, OHMS is open source (find it here on GitHub ); second, OHMS appears to interact with/integrate with/support Redfish, a hardware-level API I first discussed back in 2014. What will happen when you combine GPUs and persistent storage? Operating Systems/Applications. Is the era of the storage admin over ?

Vmware 60

Vmware Hardware Storage Linux 60

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 14, 2016

NAPALM (Network Automation and Programmability Layer with Multivendor support) looks like a really cool tool. This is a good introductory post, and one that I plan to leverage as I dive deeper into these tools. VMware open-sourced an identity and access management service called Lightwave ( project web site , GitHub repo ).

Devops 60

Devops Vmware Storage Open Source 60

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 17, 2020

The Grafana folks have introduced Tanka , a new tool aimed a simplifying the task of managing Kubernetes manifests. Here’s a list of Kubernetes tools. Operating Systems/Applications. It’s good to see 1Password add support for U2F security keys for logging into your 1Password.com account via a web browser.

Load Balancer 60

Load Balancer Vmware Windows Cloud 60