Scott Lowe

JANUARY 21, 2022

Nick Schmidt talks about using GitOps with the NSX Advanced Load Balancer. Operating Systems/Applications. Dennis Felsing shares some thoughts on switching to macOS after 15 years on Linux. Running Docker on an M1 Max-based system? BIOS updates without a reboot , and under Linux first? Servers/Hardware.

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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 Academy

JUNE 17, 2019

For example, if you watched last weeks Weekly Update video, What is a Database , or you’ve tried configuring a database before, then you know that it involves a few different steps: Install the database management system. But y ou can do all of that and more in our free Ansible Quick Start course on Linux Academy , right now.

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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. Operating Systems/Applications. Matt Oswalt takes readers though a fairly in-depth look at sockets and address binds in Linux.

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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. Yes, please! (I

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Scott Lowe

JUNE 18, 2021

Via Ivan Pepelnjak, I was pointed to Jon Langemak’s in-depth discussion of working with Linux VRFs. The first is a post on Cilium and F5 load balancer integration , while the second discusses implementing Kubernetes network policies with Cilium and Linkerd. Operating Systems/Applications. Networking.

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Linux Academy

MARCH 28, 2019

Fail fast has become learn fast where monitoring and scanning now provides the feedback we need to keep systems safe. Many organizations utilize on-premises systems until they literally burst into the public cloud to gain added capacity. The final piece of the puzzle is the ability for systems to deploy systems.

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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.). Operating Systems/Applications.

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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. Abdullah Abdullah shares some thoughts on design decisions regarding NSX VXLAN control plane replication modes.

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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. Daniel Sagi of Aqua Security explains the mechanics behind a Pod escape using file system mounts. Servers/Hardware.

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Linux Academy

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

“My favorite parts about Linux Academy are the practical lab sessions and access to playground servers, this is just next level.” Cloud Systems Engineer, Amazon Web Services. Ansible is a powerful automation tool that can be used for managing configuration state or even performing coordinated multi-system deployments.

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All Things Distributed

JANUARY 19, 2011

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Flexibility is one of the key principles of Amazon Web Services - developers can select any programming language and software package, any operating system, any middleware and any database to build systems and applications that meet their requirements.

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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. The servers are interconnected using a mesh, ToR, or multi-stage Clos network.

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Linux Academy

MARCH 18, 2019

Working in technology, whether that be software development, DevOps, or system administration, you’ve undoubtedly heard of Kubernetes. To install Minikube, we need to make sure that we already have a hypervisor installed on our system so that we can run VMs. As a powerful tool, Kubernetes does have quite a learning curve.

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Scott Lowe

AUGUST 17, 2018

Scott McCarty explains sVirt and how it’s used to isolate Linux containers. 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. Servers/Hardware.

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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). Operating Systems/Applications. Andrew Montalenti discusses the state of Linux on the desktop by examining his own journey with various Lenovo-branded laptops. Here’s hoping you find something useful!

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

” The speakers are Recep Ozdag, a PME with Intel, and Gershon Schatzberg, a PLM with Wind River Systems. Some of these services naturally should run on the top-of-rack (ToR) switch, like load balancing or security services. That leads Recep into a discussion of what ONP actually is. It is hardware switch independent.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 14, 2024

Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott compared the company’s Copilot stack to the LAMP stack of Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP, enabling organizations to build at scale on the internet, and there’s clear enterprise interest in building solutions with these services. As in Q3 , demand for Microsoft’s AI services remains higher than available capacity.

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Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 5, 2012

Operating Systems/Applications. Only a true geek would be interested in this, but here’s some information on running OpenBSD in KVM on Linux. Given my past interest in OpenBSD and my present interest in KVM on Linux, this might be something I’ll be trying myself soon. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management.

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Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 6, 2012

These articles are a bit long in the tooth, but CSS Corp has a useful series of articles on bundling various Linux distributions for use with OpenStack: bundling CentOS , bundling CentOS with VNC , bundling Debian , and bundling OpenSUSE. Operating Systems/Applications. Both KVM and QEMU are needed for a full virtualization solution.

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Scott Lowe

AUGUST 20, 2014

This post is the third in a series of posts on CoreOS , this time focusing on the use of fleet and Docker to deploy containers across a cluster of systems. The GitHub page for fleet describes it as a “distributed init system” that operates across a cluster of machines instead of on a single machine. ssh/keyfile.pem.

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All Things Distributed

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. OpsWorks provides an event-driven configuration system with rich deployment tools that allow you to efficiently manage applications over their lifetime, including support for customizable deployments, rollback, patch management, auto scaling, and auto healing.

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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. Operating Systems/Applications.

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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). Operating Systems/Applications.

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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). First, here’s a workaround to the fact that vCA doesn’t (yet) do cloud-init, which makes injecting SSH keys into Linux instances a bit difficult. Networking.

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Linux Academy

AUGUST 13, 2019

Load Balancers, Auto Scaling. Content Delivery and Domain Name System (DNS). These are the Hands-On Labs available at Linux Academy: Introduction to AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM). The post The Definitive Guide to Achieve AWS Cloud Certification appeared first on Linux Academy. Getting Started with AWS.

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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. You made this point like hey it's not a real thing, like, threatening or impeding, whatever power grid or system that's in industry it's, it's a sport, and it's for play. Vamosi: Wait.

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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. You made this point like hey it's not a real thing, like, threatening or impeding, whatever power grid or system that's in industry it's, it's a sport, and it's for play. Vamosi: Wait.

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