CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 17, 2023

As with all technology introductions, it’s important to have clear security policies, tools, processes, and training. This can occur due to insecure configurations, inadequate access controls, or vulnerabilities in cloud storage or databases.

Cloud 95

Cloud How To Open Source Applications 95

Scott Lowe

APRIL 29, 2022

My link of links and articles from around the Internet is a bit light on networking and virtualization this time around, but heftier in the security, cloud, and OS/application sections. release of netsim-tools in this blog post. Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization. Welcome to Technology Short Take #154!

Linux 74

Linux Storage Programming Applications 74

Scott Lowe

JUNE 24, 2022

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. Paul Swail shares why he switched from AWS CodePipeline to GitHub Actions. Scary stuff!

Vmware 74

Vmware Linux Storage Virtualization 74

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.

Open Source 94

Open Source Virtualization Applications Security 94

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Julia Evans recently released a tool named dnspeep to help folks understand how DNS works. Operating Systems/Applications. Cloudflare recently introduced its own object storage offering, announced in this blog post. Cloudflare recently introduced its own object storage offering, announced in this blog post.

IPv6 60

IPv6 Storage Hardware Vmware 60

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

This post is a couple months old (a lifetime in the cloud-native world): the AWS Service Operator enables users/developers to consume a select set of AWS services via Kubernetes YAML manifests. And speaking of YAML manifests, I saw this tool mentioned somewhere among my various feeds. Operating Systems/Applications.

Vmware 60

Vmware Authentication Virtualization Storage 60

Dataconomy

JANUARY 3, 2024

From checking for updates to exploring nuanced troubleshooting methods, this walkthrough aims to equip users with the tools needed to troubleshoot and resolve common issues plaguing Binance. ” when faced with frequent crashes after recent system updates ( Image credit ) Is Binance not working? “Why is Binance not working?”

How To 41

How To Storage Network Mobile 41

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. jq is probably one of my favorite CLI tools.

Linux 90

Linux Load Balancer Malware Virtualization 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. It’s a good starting point for thinking about operating your own active-active architecture. Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization. Or, one could just use something like this.

Open Source 105

Open Source Load Balancer WAN Architecture 105

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. Virtualization.

Storage 111

Storage Vmware WAN Virtualization 111

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. I recently saw an article stating that VMware is going to use Minio as the object storage platform for Kubernetes, but the evidence presented in the article is anything but convincing.

Open Source 60

Open Source Vmware Authentication Storage 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 21, 2020

I haven’t used gnmic , but it certainly looks like an extremely useful tool. Operating Systems/Applications. Via Ivan Pepelnjak (who in turn got it from Julia Evans), I learned about entr , a Linux CLI tool to run arbitrary commands when files change. ” Storage. Virtualization. Programming.

Handbook 60

Handbook Linux Storage Windows 60

Scott Lowe

MAY 12, 2023

Operating Systems/Applications Just when you think you’re getting a handle on Git, then it all blows up in your face and you realize you have no idea how Git works. Jimmi Dyson provides an overview of two very useful container image tools ( skopeo and crane ).

Disaster Recovery 90

Disaster Recovery Security Storage Social 90

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

Dataconomy

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Server virtualization can do the trick for you if you also struggle to scale your applications to meet growing demands without breaking the bank. Server virtualization is a game-changing technology that has revolutionized the way organizations deploy and manage their IT infrastructure.

Virtualization 78

Virtualization Storage Hardware Disaster Recovery 78

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

APRIL 6, 2017

Operating Systems/Applications. Red Hat discusses efforts around containerizing open-vm-tools to better support the use of Atomic OS instances running on VMware infrastructure. Brian Ragazzi shares a lesson learned the hard way regarding VVols: place the VSM/VASA on a non-VVol storage location. Virtualization.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Storage Network 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

OCTOBER 27, 2017

Russell Bryant has a post on Open Virtual Network (OVN) , a project within the Open vSwitch (OVS) community. I wonder how many more Kubernetes provisioning tools will emerge before tool consolidation starts happening? Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization. Servers/Hardware. Here’s another one.

Firewall 60

Firewall Virtualization Network Storage 60

Scott Lowe

JUNE 2, 2016

Tom Hollingsworth discusses how the rise of overlay networks killed large layer 2 networks and tools for building large layer 2 networks, like TRILL. Dmitri Kalintsev examines some options for addressing storage-related connectivity in NSX environments. Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization.

Vmware 60

Vmware Virtualization Linux Windows 60

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

This post by Matt Oswalt—the first in a series, apparently—provides a great introduction to 5 development tools for network engineers. Operating Systems/Applications. I’m not sure if this falls into storage or virtualization, but we’ll place it here in the Storage section.

Vmware 69

Vmware Linux Storage Virtualization 69

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 11, 2016

In this post you’ll find a collection of links to articles discussing the major data center technologies—networking, hardware, security, cloud computing, applications, virtualization…you name it! (If Numan Siddique describes the native DHCP support available in OVN (Open Virtual Network). Operating Systems/Applications.

Vmware 60

Vmware Hardware Storage Linux 60

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

I adopted OS X as my operating system of choice in 2003 because I wanted a stable, powerful, UNIX-based operating system. Don’t be surprised, then, to see me start talking more about switching away from OS X, and exploring applications and tools that work on other platforms. Apple and Virtualization.

Operating Systems 131

Operating Systems Apple Applications Linux 131

Scott Lowe

APRIL 24, 2020

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. Cody Hosterman, of Pure Storage, takes a look at Pure Storage’s support of the recently-released vSphere 7. Virtualization.

Storage 60

Storage Tools Architecture Network 60

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 8, 2016

This is an interesting project to watch, I think—it’s porting OVN (Open Virtual Network) from a “traditional” OvS back-end to an IOVisor-based back-end (IOVisor implements the data plane in eBPF). Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization. on Ubuntu 16.04. JJ Asghar announces two Chef vRA 7.0+ That’s handy.

Vmware 60

Vmware Storage Intel Virtualization 60

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.

Linux 60

Linux Load Balancer Malware Virtualization 60

Scott Lowe

JULY 22, 2013

The networking “old guard” likes to talk about how x86 servers and virtualization create network bottlenecks due to performance concerns, but as Ivan points out in this post , it’s rapidly becoming—or has already become—a non-issue. (By Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization.

Vmware 106

Vmware Virtualization Network Linux 106

Scott Lowe

JUNE 8, 2018

AWS adds local NVMe storage to the M5 instance family; more details here. What I found interesting is that the local NVMe storage is also hardware encrypted. Operating Systems/Applications. Google recently announced kustomize , a tool that provides a new approach to customizing Kubernetes object configuration.

Load Balancer 60

Load Balancer Vmware Storage Intel 60

Scott Lowe

JUNE 18, 2017

Sjors Robroek describes his nested NSX-T lab that also includes some virtualized network equipment (virtualized Arista switches). Here’s an interesting article on the role that virtualization is playing in the network functions virtualization (NFV) space now that ARM hardware is growing increasingly powerful. Enough said.

Windows 60

Windows Vmware Virtualization Linux 60

Scott Lowe

JUNE 18, 2017

Sjors Robroek describes his nested NSX-T lab that also includes some virtualized network equipment (virtualized Arista switches). Here’s an interesting article on the role that virtualization is playing in the network functions virtualization (NFV) space now that ARM hardware is growing increasingly powerful. Enough said.

Windows 60

Windows Vmware Virtualization Linux 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.

Storage 60

Storage Vmware Load Balancer Network 60

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 14, 2016

Cumulus VX, if you aren’t aware, is a community-supported virtual appliance version of Cumulus Linux aimed at helping folks preview and test “full-blown” Cumulus Linux (which, of course, requires compatible hardware). NAPALM (Network Automation and Programmability Layer with Multivendor support) looks like a really cool tool.

Vmware 60

Vmware Devops Storage Linux 60

Scott Lowe

JULY 13, 2018

Interesting article here on Chick-Fil-A’s use of Kubernetes in their restaurants, and the tools/process they follow for establishing those clusters. This article is not (in my opinion) a knee-jerk reaction to some of the debate around Kubernetes’ complexity, but rather a measured and honest evaluation of a tool to solve problems.

Load Balancer 60

Load Balancer Virtualization Authentication Tools 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 2, 2019

I’ve got a little bit of something for most everyone, except for the storage nerds (I’m leaving that to my friend J Metz this time around). Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization. Here’s hoping you find something useful! Networking. release; more details are available here. Career/Soft Skills.

Storage 60

Storage Applications Programming Firewall 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. Students will learn by doing through installing and configuring containers and thoughtfully selecting a persistent storage strategy. Kubernetes is a powerful tool. YAML Essentials.

Course 104

Course Linux Devops Big Data 104

Scott Lowe

JULY 5, 2019

Anthony Spiteri takes a few moments to talk about his journey from working directly with the REST APIs of certain infrastructure products to using an infrastructure-as-code tool. Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization. Chris Humphries shares his experience in using OpenBSD as his workstation. Kubernetes 1.15

Storage 60

Storage Hardware Open Source Vmware 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! Here’s an “initial impressions” post on TKG 2.1.

Programming 96

Programming Policies Network Cloud 96