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. Virtualization. Bring on the content! Networking. is available.

Open Source 94

Open Source Virtualization Applications Security 94

CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 24, 2022

After all, entry-level pricing for mainframes in the z15 family running IBM Z operating systems is $250,000. IBM LinuxONE III systems run only Linux at prices starting at $135,000. The program enables customers to pay only for what they use of Z system hardware and software. Z upgrades and open source.

IBM 144

IBM Banking Linux Open Source 144

Scott Lowe

MAY 27, 2022

network virtualization). Is the relationship between network virtualization and service mesh closer than some folks might wish to admit? marks the first release of the open source container orchestration platform that is signed using Sigstore (more details here ). Operating Systems/Applications. Programming.

Virtualization 79

Virtualization Storage Programming Network 79

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

Galido

JUNE 30, 2016

VMI stands for Virtual Mobile Infrastructure and basically, it provides end users with a highly effective and an efficient way to have access to delicate mobile applications and information without much hassle. It creates virtual versions of mobile applications and sends them to a vast collection of devices.

Mobile 81

Mobile Virtualization Operating Systems Applications 81

Galido

MARCH 19, 2019

Information Technology (IT) is about using technology to inform about technology, to communicate better, automate, simplify and ultimately provide tools to make business processes easier and more understandable. Operating System & Software Blogs. TechWorld – Operating Systems. What is Information Technology?

Resources 113

Resources Mobile Data Center Security 113

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. Virtualization.

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. Virtualization.

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. to version 8.0.

Programming 90

Programming Open Source Cloud Devops 90

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

JULY 22, 2022

Operating Systems/Applications. Julia Evans has a post discussing some “new-ish” command-line tools ; it might be worth checking out. Regardless, Paul does effectively point out some of the differences in building “traditional” software systems versus serverless systems. Virtualization.

System 79

System Open Source Cloud Policies 79

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. A process to identify vulnerabilities in hardware, operating systems, and applications.

Operating Systems 79

Operating Systems Enterprise Enterprise Virtualization 79

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

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

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

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. Virtualization.

Vmware 60

Vmware Open Source Intel Applications 60

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

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

Galido

MARCH 19, 2019

Information Technology (IT) is about using technology to inform about technology, to communicate better, automate, simplify and ultimately provide tools to make business processes easier and more understandable. Operating System & Software Blogs. TechWorld – Operating Systems. What is Information Technology?

Resources 66

Resources Mobile Data Center Security 66

Virtualized Greek

MARCH 26, 2013

Mirantis, a large OpenStack consulting organization, announced that PayPal will be rolling 10,000 nodes running some variant of OpenStack “Cloud Operating System” They look to have a total of 80,000 nodes managed by OpenStack at the end of the Cloud deployment. Cloud Computing Virtualization OpenStack VMWare'

Vmware 63

Vmware Open Source Virtualization Cloud 63

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

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. Virtualization. Fatima Silveira has a good article on using the Kubernetes Horizontal Pod Autoscaler.

Linux 74

Linux Load Balancer IPv6 Licensing 74

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

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. Virtualization. release of Kubernetes. PowerShell Core 6.0 or higher).

Vmware 60

Vmware Open Source Linux Cloud 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. Virtualization.

Linux 60

Linux Vmware Open Source Examples 60

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 6, 2013

A fan of network virtualization might also say that decomposing today’s complex physical networks into multiple simple logical networks on top of a simpler physical transport network—similar to Mike’s suggestion of converging on a smaller set of reference architectures—might also help. (Of All good stuff, thanks Mike!

Vmware 60

Vmware Storage Linux Network 60

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. Virtualization. Ivan Pepelnjak shares a Python script that creates Ansible inventory from Vagrant’s SSH configuration.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Open Source Data Center 60

ForAllSecure

DECEMBER 17, 2021

As I produce this episode, there's a dangerous new vulnerability known informally as Log4Shell, it’s a flaw in an open source Java logging library developed by the Apache Foundation and, in the hands of a malicious actor, could allow for remote code injection. Vamosi: The idea behind Open Source is great.

Open Source 52

Open Source Software Software Applications 52

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

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 28, 2016

And while we are on the topic of Linux and open source in the networking industry…read this entertaining and informative article on the importance of (truly) open source libraries in networking. The project itself is open source and hosted on GitHub. Operating Systems/Applications.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Open Source Devops 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. Virtualization. It provides the basics behind X.509v3 Career/Soft Skills.

Storage 60

Storage Hardware Open Source Vmware 60

SPF13

MARCH 20, 2015

In the last few years open source has transformed the software industry. From Android to Wikipedia, open source is everywhere, but how does one succeed in it? What Every Successful Open Source Project Needs. spf13 Chief Operator @ Docker? Open Source is taking over the world. Transcript.

Open Source 100

Open Source Linux Software Software 100

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. Virtualization.

Linux 60

Linux Devops Open Source Virtualization 60

Linux Academy

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

Students will explore how containers work, how they compare with virtual machines and Docker containers, and how they handle application isolation. Additionally, we’ll use some common Linux tools, like grep and sed for some front-end regex use examples. Kubernetes is a powerful tool. Linux Operating System Fundamentals.

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Course Linux Devops Big Data 104

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. Virtualization.

Open Source 60

Open Source Storage Vmware Network 60

Linux Academy

APRIL 29, 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 60

Linux Course Big Data Devops 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. Virtualization.

Storage 60

Storage Tools Architecture Network 60