All Things Distributed

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

Expanding the Cloud - Introducing AWS OpsWorks, a Powerful Application Management Solution. Today Amazon Web Services launched AWS OpsWorks , a flexible application management solution with automation tools that enable you to model and control your applications and their supporting infrastructure. Comments ().

Cloud 145

Cloud Applications Web Services Resources 145

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Baptiste Collard has a post on Kubernetes controllers for AWS load balancers. One takeaway from this post for me was that the new AWS load balancer controller uses a ton of annotations. Operating Systems/Applications. Xavier Avrillier digs into the Cluster API Provider for vSphere in this post.

Load Balancer 94

Load Balancer Vmware Operating Systems Architecture 94

Scott Lowe

MARCH 15, 2024

Networking Lee Briggs (formerly of Pulumi, now with Tailscale) shows how to use the Tailscale Operator to create “free” Kubernetes load balancers (“free” as in no additional charge above and beyond what it would normally cost to operate a Kubernetes cluster). Thanks for reading!

Linux 113

Linux Vmware Load Balancer Malware 113

All Things Distributed

MAY 8, 2012

s announcement of Amazon RDS for Microsoft SQL Server and.NET support for AWS Elastic Beanstalk marks another important step in our commitment to increase the flexibility for AWS customers to use the choice of operating system, programming language, development tools and database software that meet their application requirements.

Development 94

Development Windows Disaster Recovery Licensing 94

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 6, 2021

Here’s a quick look at using Envoy as a load balancer in Kubernetes. I saw this blog post about Curiefense , an open source Envoy extension to add WAF (web application firewall) functionality to Envoy. It’s a good starting point for thinking about operating your own active-active architecture. Networking.

Open Source 105

Open Source Load Balancer WAN Architecture 105

Linux Academy

JUNE 3, 2019

In a nutshell, serverless computing lets you build and run applications without thinking about servers. Normally, when it comes to running an application from the cloud, you have to deal with setting it all up, which can take hours, days, or even weeks. Configure auto-scaling with load balancers.

Linux 92

Linux Course Open Source Load Balancer 92

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 6, 2012

Operating Systems/Applications. I found this article on imperative vs. declarative system configuration is quite helpful in understanding Puppet’s declarative model. This VMware blog post helps explain the link between Puppet and vFabric Application Director, and why organizations may want to use both.

Vmware 115

Vmware Virtualization Storage Hardware 115

Cloud Musings

DECEMBER 11, 2015

PaaS provides a platform allowing customers to develop, run, and manage web applications without the complexity of building and maintaining the infrastructure. Its unique power is associated with developing and deploying applications.

Disaster Recovery 70

Disaster Recovery Load Balancer Healthcare Applications 70

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 21, 2022

Nick Schmidt talks about using GitOps with the NSX Advanced Load Balancer. Operating Systems/Applications. Aidan Steele examines how VPC sharing could potentially improve security and reduce cost. What do you think microsegmentation means ? Servers/Hardware. Ru Singh provides a review of his M1-based MacBook Air.

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Load Balancer Linux Intel Cloud 90

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 14, 2017

Romain Decker has an “under the hood” look at the VMware NSX load balancer. This graphical summary of the AWS Application Load Balancer (ALB) is pretty handy. Operating Systems/Applications. Servers/Hardware. Nothing this time (sorry!).

Load Balancer 60

Load Balancer Vmware Hardware Open Source 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

NFV is intended to address the problem caused by having to route/direct traffic from various sources through physical appliances designed to provide services like content filtering, security, content delivery/acceleration, and load balancing. It is hardware switch independent.

Intel 68

Intel Load Balancer Architecture Virtualization 68

KineticData

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

By choosing containerization of our application components, we’ve removed the uncertainties and complexities of the underlying infrastructure. Containerization allows us to abstract the operating system that our application runs on into the “container” that the application is running in, as well as any related dependencies.

Devops 59

Devops Strategy Applications Load Balancer 59

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 27, 2021

Operating Systems/Applications. Rudi Martinsen has an article on changing the Avi load balancer license tier (this is in the context of using it with vSphere with Tanzu). This article provides some great “behind the scenes” information on AWS Lambda. This is a great article on using jq with kubectl.

Linux 90

Linux Load Balancer Malware Virtualization 90

Scott Lowe

APRIL 15, 2022

Xavier Avrillier walks readers through using Antrea (a Kubernetes CNI built on top of Open vSwitch—a topic I’ve touched on a time or two) to provide on-premise load balancing in Kubernetes. Here’s a set of 15 principles for designing and deploying scalable applications on Kubernetes. Servers/Hardware.

Linux 74

Linux Load Balancer IPv6 Licensing 74

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 17, 2020

Eric Sloof mentions the NSX-T load balancing encyclopedia (found here ), which intends to be an authoritative resource to NSX-T load balancing configuration and management. Operating Systems/Applications. Here’s hoping that I found something useful for you! Networking. This is kind of cool.

Load Balancer 60

Load Balancer Vmware Windows Cloud 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

The “TL;DR” for those who are interested is that this solution bypasses the normal iptables layer involved in most Kubernetes implementations to load balance traffic directly to Pods in the cluster. Operating Systems/Applications. Unfortunately, this appears to be GKE-specific. Servers/Hardware.

Load Balancer 60

Load Balancer Cloud Vmware Applications 60

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 5, 2012

Operating Systems/Applications. In any case, this article by Frank Denneman on Storage DRS load balancing frequency might be useful to you. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. This is an awesome overview of the OpenStack Folsom architecture , courtesy of Ken Pepple. Definitely worth reading, in my view.

Storage 92

Storage Vmware Linux Virtualization 92

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 6, 2021

Here’s a quick look at using Envoy as a load balancer in Kubernetes. I saw this blog post about Curiefense , an open source Envoy extension to add WAF (web application firewall) functionality to Envoy. It’s a good starting point for thinking about operating your own active-active architecture. Networking.

Open Source 60

Open Source Load Balancer WAN Architecture 60

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

The rise of the disaggregated network operating system (NOS) marches on: this time, it’s Big Switch Networks announcing expanded hardware support in Open Network Linux (ONL) , upon which its own NOS is based. Operating Systems/Applications. How about a new Clarity -based interface for vRA 7.2? Check this out.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Storage Load Balancer 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 17, 2018

Check out these articles talking about IPVS-based in-cluster load balancing , CoreDNS , dynamic kubelet configuration , and resizing persistent volumes in Kubernetes. Operating Systems/Applications. Nathaniel Avery shares a tip on saving some money by using the right servers on Azure. Virtualization.

Load Balancer 60

Load Balancer Storage Network Linux 60

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

Continuing on that Envoy theme, you may find this article by Matt Klein—one of the primary authors of Envoy—helpful in understanding some of the concepts behind modern load balancing and proxying. Operating Systems/Applications. Many of these concepts had direct impacts on the design of Envoy.

Load Balancer 60

Load Balancer Operating Systems Intel Hardware 60

Scott Lowe

APRIL 6, 2017

Operating Systems/Applications. Here’s a Windows-centric walkthrough to using Nginx to load balance across a Docker Swarm cluster. As an aside, I do find it fascinating that new storage startups often emerge with support for Linux first, then add other operating systems afterward.). Yes, please! (I

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Storage Network 60

Scott Lowe

JUNE 8, 2018

Kamal Kyrala discusses a method for accessing Kubernetes Services without Ingress, NodePort, or load balancers. His points are spot-on: making the control plane highly available isn’t going to improve the availability or scalability of your applications. Operating Systems/Applications.

Load Balancer 60

Load Balancer Vmware Storage Intel 60

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 24, 2018

Viktor van den Berg writes on deploying NSX load balancers with vRA. Most folks have probably heard about 12 Factor Applications (see here if you haven’t or if you need a refresher); this article talks about 12 basic rules and good practices for using Kubernetes optimally. Operating Systems/Applications.

Vmware 60

Vmware Load Balancer Network Open Source 60

Scott Lowe

JULY 13, 2018

Bernd Malmqvist talks about Avi Networks’ software-defined load balancing solution, including providing an overview of how to use Vagrant to test it yourself. Operating Systems/Applications. Lightroom is one of only a few applications that I keep around for macOS; this article gives me some alternatives.

Load Balancer 60

Load Balancer Virtualization Authentication Tools 60

Scott Lowe

JUNE 18, 2021

The first is a post on Cilium and F5 load balancer integration , while the second discusses implementing Kubernetes network policies with Cilium and Linkerd. Hari Rana has a detailed discussion of security concerns regarding Flatpak (a packaging format for Linux applications). Operating Systems/Applications.

Vmware 60

Vmware Hardware Load Balancer Apple 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

Operating Systems/Applications. The series starts with part 0 (preparation), and continues with part 1 (mostly about rpm-ostree ), part 2 (container storage), part 3 (rebase, upgrade, and rollback), part 4 (package layering and experimental features), and part 5 (containerized and non-containerized applications).

Storage 60

Storage Vmware Load Balancer IPv6 60

Scott Lowe

JUNE 21, 2019

David Holder walks through removing unused load balancer IP allocations in NSX-T when used with PKS. Operating Systems/Applications. Systango has this high-level overview of serverless application architecture along with some pros/cons, use cases, etc. I’m looking forward to seeing how NaaS evolves.

Network 60

Network Load Balancer Storage Applications 60

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 17, 2015

It says the the JET (Juniper Extension Toolkit) uses “open application programming interfaces”, but fails to provide any specifics. Operating Systems/Applications. William Lam breaks down the real value of load balancing your PSC in this in-depth article. Want to run Docker Swarm on Azure? Virtualization.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Architecture Hardware 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 27, 2021

Operating Systems/Applications. Rudi Martinsen has an article on changing the Avi load balancer license tier (this is in the context of using it with vSphere with Tanzu). This article provides some great “behind the scenes” information on AWS Lambda. This is a great article on using jq with kubectl.

Linux 60

Linux Load Balancer Malware Virtualization 60

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

This time around, the content is a bit heavier on cloud management and applications/operating systems, but still lots of good content all the way around (I hope, anyway). Operating Systems/Applications. Networking. Matt Oswalt recently wrapped up his 3-part “DevOps for Networking” series. Servers/Hardware.

Open Source 60

Open Source Vmware Network IBM 60

Linux Academy

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

March Study Group Course: Linux Operating System Fundamentals – Have you heard of Linux, but don’t really know anything about it? Students will explore how containers work, how they compare with virtual machines and Docker containers, and how they handle application isolation.

Linux 80

Linux Big Data Course Devops 80

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

Operating Systems/Applications. Lew Goettner has a pretty hefty post on CoreOS and Docker on AWS that includes information on CoreOS, user data and cloud-init, AWS and Elastic Load Balancers (ELBs), Fleet, Registrator, Nginx, Confd, and Jenkins. In case you missed it, Docker 1.9 It’s a whirlwind of technologies.

Vmware 60

Vmware Network Load Balancer Linux 60

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

The private subnets won’t have Internet access, but the AWS cloud provider needs to make a call to the EC2 and Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) API endpoints. The operating system on the instances was Ubuntu 18.04. What applications are going to run on the cluster, and how will users (or other applications) access them?

Internet 60

Internet Load Balancer Cloud System 60

The Accidental Successful CIO

AUGUST 3, 2011

In the past, IT departments used to set up a new server for each new application that they wanted to deploy. This low level software allowed multiple applications to run on the same physical hardware but believe that they had the box all to themselves. The arrival of virtualization software changed everything. No related posts.

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Virtualization Load Balancer Data Center Vmware 100