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

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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Vmware Virtualization Storage Hardware 115

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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Cloud Applications Web Services Resources 145

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. New Content. Creating databases. Inserting data.

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Linux Devops Course Load Balancer 60

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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Load Balancer Linux Intel Cloud 90

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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Storage Vmware Linux Virtualization 92

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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Load Balancer Intel Network Hardware 68

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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Linux Course Load Balancer Google 60

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

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Storage Network 60

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.

Intel 68

Intel Load Balancer Architecture Virtualization 68

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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Linux Load Balancer IPv6 Licensing 74

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.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Storage Load Balancer 60

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.

Linux 60

Linux Load Balancer Malware Virtualization 60

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.

Load Balancer 60

Load Balancer Vmware Hardware Open Source 60

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.

Cloud 16

Cloud Study Training Web Services 16

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.

Open Source 60

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

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Load Balancer Cloud Vmware Applications 60

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.

Linux 68

Linux System Load Balancer Examples 68

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.

Vmware 60

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). 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!

Storage 60

Storage Vmware Load Balancer IPv6 60

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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Load Balancer Tools Linux Systems Administration 60

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.

Load Balancer 60

Load Balancer Storage Network Linux 60

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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Microsoft Enterprise Enterprise Data 136

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.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Architecture Hardware 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). Operating Systems/Applications.

Vmware 60

Vmware Network Load Balancer Linux 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). 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.

Open Source 60

Open Source Vmware Network IBM 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. 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.

Open Source 52

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. 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.

Open Source 52

Open Source Load Balancer Security Google 52