All Things Distributed

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

Expanding the Cloud - Introducing AWS OpsWorks, a Powerful Application Management Solution. You can deploy your application in the configuration you choose on Amazon Linux and Ubuntu. Next to these solutions you can of course manage your compute resources directly, for example using CloudWatch, AutoScaling and Elastic Load Balancing.

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Cloud Applications Web Services Resources 145

Linux Academy

JUNE 3, 2019

This week, we’re talking all about serverless computing, what it is, why it’s relevant, and the release of a free course that can be enjoyed by everyone on the Linux Academy platform, including Community Edition account members. Configure auto-scaling with load balancers. Serverless Computing: What is it? Now h old up.

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Linux Course Open Source Load Balancer 92

Linux Academy

AUGUST 13, 2019

We offer tons of AWS content for the different exams, but this month the Cloud Practitioner will be our focus. Is the Cloud Practitioner role right for you? Officially, the Cloud Practitioner certification was designed for Sales, Marketing, Finance, and Executive professionals. The Cloud Practitioner exam is built for you.

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Cloud Study Training Web Services 16

Linux Academy

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

Linux Academy is the only way to get exam-like training for multiple Microsoft Azure certifications. Learn how to create, configure, and manage resources in the Azure cloud, including but not limited to: Managing Azure subscriptions. Hybrid cloud. Developing apps and services for the cloud. with Chad Crowell.

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Virtualized Greek

AUGUST 27, 2013

You can save money if you consolidate your Windows & Linux workloads to fewer servers. The Second are is the higher level layers such as load balancing. Fast is the new better, Fast is the new cheaper, Faster is the new faster!” – Chris Launey Director, Cloud Hosting The Walt Disney Company.

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Virtualization Network Load Balancer Vmware 68

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 21, 2022

Nick Schmidt talks about using GitOps with the NSX Advanced Load Balancer. Chris Evans revisits the discussion regarding Arm processor architectures in the public cloud. Kat Traxler considers the impact of the Log4J vulnerability in cloud-based environments. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Read more here.

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Load Balancer Linux Intel Cloud 90

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 6, 2012

Another good resource is Dan Hersey’s guide to building an SDN-based private cloud in an hour. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. For example, Cody Bunch published this article on running OpenStack Private Cloud on ESXi , and Brent Salisbury (there he is again!) Feel free to share something in the comments!

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Vmware Virtualization Storage Hardware 115

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. Michael Kashin shares the journey of containerizing NVIDIA Cumulus Linux. Networking. Good stuff.

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Linux Load Balancer Malware Virtualization 90

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 5, 2012

I think this three-part series on new network models for cloud computing ( part 1 , part 2 , and part 3 ), while almost a year old, is quite good. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Only a true geek would be interested in this, but here’s some information on running OpenBSD in KVM on Linux. That’s pretty handy.

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Storage Vmware Linux Virtualization 92

Linux Academy

MAY 15, 2019

Great news for all of our Linux Academy students; Red Hat Enterprise is already available to try out in Linux Academy’s Cloud Playground! We have more information on t he release in general and all the new features in our podcast Linux Action News and episode 105. Creating Confined Users in SELinux.

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Linux Devops Course Load Balancer 60

Linux Academy

JUNE 17, 2019

But y ou can do all of that and more in our free Ansible Quick Start course on Linux Academy , right now. LPI Linux Essentials 1.6. Applying Google Cloud Identity-Aware Proxy To Restrict Application Access. Load Balancing Google Compute Engine Instances. Load Balancing Google Compute Engine Instances.

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Linux Course Load Balancer Google 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

Workloads are scheduled across these server/linecards using Valiant Load Balancing (VLB). Of course, there are issues with packet-level load balancing and flow-level load balancing, so tradeoffs must be made one way or another. COMS002: Next Generation Cloud Infrastructure with Data Plane Virtualization.

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Load Balancer Intel Network Hardware 68

Scott Lowe

APRIL 6, 2017

Here’s a handy list of deprecated Linux network commands and their replacements. Konstantin Ryabitsev has a series going on securing a SysAdmin Linux workstation. Part 1 covers how to choose a Linux distribution, and part 2 discusses some security tips for installing Linux on your SysAdmin workstation. Virtualization.

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Vmware Linux Storage Network 60

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. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Servers/Hardware. Cabling is hardware, right?

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Linux Load Balancer IPv6 Licensing 74

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 14, 2017

Romain Decker has an “under the hood” look at the VMware NSX load balancer. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Joe’s comment—“the merging of CDNs and cloud continues”—is pretty spot on, in my opinion. Richard Arnold shares some thoughts on VMware Cloud on AWS.

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Load Balancer Vmware Hardware Open Source 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. I use OTR with Adium on OS X, and OTR with Pidgin on my Fedora Linux laptop.). Cloud Computing/Cloud Management.

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Vmware Linux Storage Load Balancer 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. COMS002: Next Generation Cloud Infrastructure with Data Plane Virtualization.

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Intel Load Balancer Architecture Virtualization 68

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. Michael Kashin shares the journey of containerizing NVIDIA Cumulus Linux.

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Linux Load Balancer Malware Virtualization 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

As usual, I’ve collected some articles and links from around the Internet pertaining to various data center- and cloud-related topics. I saw this headline , and immediately thought it was just “cloud native”-washing (i.e., tagging everything as “cloud native”). Cloud Computing/Cloud Management.

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Load Balancer Cloud Vmware Applications 60

Linux Academy

MARCH 28, 2019

A big reason is the proliferation of micro-services based applications in highly redundant and highly available cloud infrastructures. Add to that a desire for most enterprises to integrate cloud based workloads with legacy on-premises applications, and we have complex hybrid cloud deployments to deal with as the result.

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Open Source Devops Linux Cloud 60

Scott Lowe

JUNE 18, 2021

The collection of links shared below covers a fairly wide range of topics, from old Sun hardware to working with serverless frameworks in the public cloud. Via Ivan Pepelnjak, I was pointed to Jon Langemak’s in-depth discussion of working with Linux VRFs. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Networking. Check this out.

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Vmware Hardware Load Balancer Apple 60

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). Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. A few interesting things jumped out at me from the report; one of them was regarding an increase in “siloism” as organizations embraced multiple clouds.

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Storage Vmware Load Balancer IPv6 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 17, 2018

Scott McCarty explains sVirt and how it’s used to isolate Linux containers. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Check out these articles talking about IPVS-based in-cluster load balancing , CoreDNS , dynamic kubelet configuration , and resizing persistent volumes in Kubernetes.

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Load Balancer Storage Network Linux 60

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

Russell Bryant has a couple great articles on OVN— how to test OVN’s “EZ Bake” release with DevStack as well as an article on implementing OpenStack security groups using OVN ACLs (which in turn leverage the integration between Open vSwitch and the Linux kernel’s conntrack module). Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Storage.

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Vmware Network Load Balancer Linux 60

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 17, 2015

If you’d like to play around with Cumulus Linux but don’t have a compatible hardware switch, Cumulus VX is the answer. This article listing 20 Linux server hardening tips contains some basic tips but is nevertheless a very good resource for someone looking for Linux security recommendations. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management.

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Vmware Linux Architecture Hardware 60

Linux Academy

MARCH 18, 2019

This approach is a lot more cost effective than spinning up multiple servers in your cloud provider of choice, wiring them together, and then learning the basics of Kubernetes. We want our service to expose port 80 from our deployment’s containers behind a load balancer and this command will achieve just that.

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Load Balancer Linux Tools Systems Administration 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 26, 2019

Transitioning yet again, Gelsinger now focuses on talking about VMware’s vision, which—in his words—remains unchanged in aiming to deliver any application to any device on any cloud. That includes DIY Kubernetes on-premises, DIY Kubernetes on the public cloud, or managed Kubernetes offerings such as AKS, EKS, or GKE.

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Vmware Cloud Nonprofit Dell 60

CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 14, 2024

Between building gen AI features into almost every enterprise tool it offers, adding the most popular gen AI developer tool to GitHub — GitHub Copilot is already bigger than GitHub when Microsoft bought it — and running the cloud powering OpenAI, Microsoft has taken a commanding lead in enterprise gen AI. That’s an industry-wide problem.

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Microsoft Enterprise Enterprise Data 136

Linux Academy

MARCH 29, 2019

As I detailed in a previous blog post, I’m continuing to update the Linux Academy AWS DevOps Pro certification course. In AWS, we work a lot with infrastructure: VPCs, EC2 instances, Auto Scaling Groups, Load Balancers (Elastic, Application, or Network). AWS Lambda, and. AWS API Gateway. AWS Lambda and Serverless Concepts.

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Devops Course Load Balancer Linux 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 20, 2014

OS X provides an SSH agent by default, but on Linux systems you will probably have to manually run an SSH agent and add the appropriate SSH key: eval `ssh-agent -s` ssh-add ~/.ssh/keyfile.pem. Metadata can be assigned either via cloud-config parameters passed when the instance is spawned, or via modifications to the fleet config files.

Linux 68

Linux System Load Balancer Examples 68

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). Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. In the event you’d like to use CoreOS with ECS, here are the instructions (accomplished easily via cloud-init).

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Open Source Vmware Network IBM 60

Scott Lowe

JUNE 23, 2015

The current GSA applications look like stovepipes that often implement replicated services using different technologies and solutions (different RDMS solutions, different load balancers, duplicate identity/access management solutions).

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Open Source Windows Applications Load Balancer 60

ForAllSecure

JANUARY 27, 2021

Even if it's running simple Linux commands and just being in the command line to navigate around the file system, it'll get you started. And what do we need to spend to put this on Are we going to be using some cloud hosting infrastructure. This one is really great at holding your hand and just kind of getting you in the thick of it.

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Open Source Load Balancer Security Google 52

ForAllSecure

JANUARY 27, 2021

Even if it's running simple Linux commands and just being in the command line to navigate around the file system, it'll get you started. And what do we need to spend to put this on Are we going to be using some cloud hosting infrastructure. This one is really great at holding your hand and just kind of getting you in the thick of it.

Open Source 52

Open Source Load Balancer Security Google 52

Scott Lowe

JUNE 19, 2016

Golub gives a “shout out” to the technologies underpinning modern Linux containers (namespaces, cgroups, etc., Built-in routing mesh: Swarm-wide overlay networking offering container-native load balancing (using IPVS), DNS-based service discovery with no separate cluster to setup or manage and interoperability with existing load balancers.

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Load Balancer Open Source Windows Tools 60