Scott Lowe

MARCH 12, 2021

Want/need to better understand IPv6? The Google Project Zero blog takes a look at iMessage in iOS 14. This blog post by Alex DeBrie on AWS API Gateway access logs is a real tour de force. Operating Systems/Applications. Denise Fishburne has you covered. Denise also has you covered if you need BGP knowledge.

IPv6 60

IPv6 Network Storage Policies 60

All Things Distributed

MAY 18, 2010

It is the ultimate incrementally scalable system; simply by adding resources it can handle scaling needs in storage and performance dimensions. It also needs to handle every possible failure of storage devices, of servers, networks and operating systems, all while continuing to serve hundreds of thousands of customers.

Storage 65

Storage Cloud IPv6 System 65

Scott Lowe

MARCH 10, 2023

Networking Kevin Jin’s post on the APNIC blog about network automation tools is a great read. Nick Buraglio discusses IPv6 Unique Local Addressing (ULA). I’m constantly on the lookout for new sources (if you have a site you think I should check out, hit me up—my contact info is at the bottom of this post!).

IPv6 74

IPv6 Linux Tools Network 74

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

Vincent Bernat has a really in-depth article on IPv4 route lookup on Linux (and one on IPv6 route lookup as well). Ádám Sándor has launched a blog series ( chapter 1 is available now) that mirrors Kelsey Hightower’s Kubernetes the Hard Way tutorial on GitHub. Operating Systems/Applications. Networking. RIP Solaris.

Storage 60

Storage Vmware Load Balancer IPv6 60

Scott Lowe

APRIL 21, 2016

Operating Systems/Applications. Want to run Docker Swarm with IPv6? This Yelp Engineering blog post talks about one of these unintended side effects (processes running as PID 1 are treated differently by the Linux kernel). The blog post also discusses a potential fix for the issue, in the form of the “dumb-init” process.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Hardware Network 60

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 9, 2016

Charles Min-Cheng Chan has a write-up on using IPv6 in Mininet. Here’s the blog post describing the case study, with a link to the actual case study itself. Skyport Systems recently said VMware’s Goldilocks project is lost in the woods. This blog post has a first look at Photon Controller 1.0. Networking.

Vmware 60

Vmware Case Study Linux Network 60

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 10, 2015

Tor Anderson has an article on using IPv6 for network boot using UEFI and iPXE. has a great blog series going called “Hey, I can DevOps my Network too!” Sometimes I see blog posts that tout themselves as a “deep dive” but aren’t really that deep or detailed. Operating Systems/Applications. Networking.

Firewall 60

Firewall Linux Windows Architecture 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 10, 2015

I highly recommend you read the entire post, but in short the five skills Matt recommends are software skills (which includes configuration management and software development tools like Git ), Linux, deep protocol knowledge, hypervisor and container networking, and IPv6. Operating Systems/Applications.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Hardware Software Development 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 25, 2015

Operating Systems/Applications. This article by Michael Gugino provides some details on getting GRE tunnels over IPv6 with Open vSwitch running on CentOS 7. John Griffith has a blog post (slightly older, from December 2014) on using OpenStack live migration with Cinder-backed instances. Simple, but effective.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Virtualization Windows 60