Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

While the primary concern for large organizations is the data processing fee, the concern for smaller organizations or folks like me who run a cloud-based lab instead of a hardware-based home lab is the per-hour cost. This code is reasonably straightforward: It creates a security group to allow traffic to move through the NAT instance.

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Programming Internet Architecture Tools 113

Scott Lowe

MAY 17, 2024

Ivan launches a series of blog posts exploring routing protocol designs that can be used to implement EVPN-with-VXLAN L2VPNs in a leaf-and-spine fabric. Security Rory McCune explores using Tailscale for getting persistence in a compromised Kubernetes cluster. Surely there will be something useful in here for you! The first one is here.

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Linux Operating Systems Windows Virtualization 90

Scott Lowe

MARCH 15, 2024

This Tech Short Take is a bit heavy on security-related links, but there’s still some additional content in a number of other areas, so you should be able to find something useful—or at least interesting—in here. I also enjoyed Ivan’s realistic take on rollbacks in a network automation environment. (TL;DR:

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Linux Vmware Load Balancer Malware 107

Scott Lowe

APRIL 7, 2023

Links to the previous three posts are embedded in the article. Security GitHub recently had to change their RSA SSH host key ; be sure to check out the details. Rory McCune examines some container security fundamentals that arise from the fact that “containers are just processes. and Kong API Gateway 3.0. (Be

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Applications Comparison Cloud Operating Systems 97

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 11, 2023

Prior to the recent Spousetivities post , it had been a few months since I posted on the site; life has been busy, and it hasn’t left much time for blogging. Security Backdoors in SSH public keys ? Will something like this spark a (larger) migration to ARM-based architectures? Be wary, friends.

Programming 60

Programming Architecture Linux Construction 60

Scott Lowe

MAY 3, 2019

Via BlueCat Networks, John Capobianco shares his network automation journey. In part 1 , John discusses the frameworks/tooling and the goals for his network automation efforts; in part 2 , John digs into getting started with Ansible and the initial impact of his efforts. Check out Thomas Maurer’s post on the announcement.

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Vmware Open Source Intel Applications 60

Scott Lowe

JUNE 21, 2019

Mircea Ulinic shows readers how to use salt-sproxy to take a different approach to network automation using Salt. Normally this would require the use of Proxy Minions, but Ulinic’s post on salt-sproxy shows how this can be done without any Proxy Minions. Part 1 is here , and part 2 is here. I haven’t tested it.).

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Network Load Balancer Storage Applications 60