CTOvision

MAY 9, 2017

This is the industry’s first universal kernel bypass (UKB) solution which includes three techniques for kernel bypass: a POSIX (Portable Operating System Interface) sockets-based API (Application Program Interface), TCP (Transmission Control Protocol) Direct and DPDK (Data Plane Development Kit).

Software 151

Software Software Data Center Hardware 151

Network World

MAY 16, 2024

Bridge has matured to the point where customers can think of it as a digital operating system that can be personalized, if you will, for each business to integrate our services, manage their data, and gather insights or patterns they need to operate at a highly efficient way,” Shagoury said.

Fractional CTO 167

Fractional CTO Cloud Applications Load Balancer 167

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

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 6, 2021

Here’s a quick look at using Envoy as a load balancer in Kubernetes. It’s a good starting point for thinking about operating your own active-active architecture. Operating Systems/Applications. I hope this collection of links has something useful for you! Networking.

Open Source 105

Open Source Load Balancer WAN Architecture 105

All Things Distributed

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

You define JSON templates and use them to provision and manage AWS resources, operating systems and application code. CloudFormation focuses on providing foundational capabilities for the full breadth of AWS, without prescribing a particular model for development and operations.

Cloud 145

Cloud Applications Web Services Resources 145

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. I enjoyed this article by Josh Townsend on using SUSE Studio and HAProxy to create a (free) open source load balancing solution for VMware View.

Vmware 115

Vmware Virtualization Storage Hardware 115

Linux Academy

JUNE 3, 2019

You have to launch the virtual servers, which means you need to: Choose an operating system. Configure auto-scaling with load balancers. Install software packages. Set up a webserver to serve requests. Hook the webserver up into the rest of your infrastructure like a database, CDN, etc. .

Linux 92

Linux Course Open Source Load Balancer 92

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

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.

Load Balancer 90

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

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

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

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

Cloud Musings

DECEMBER 11, 2015

Helps to focus limited resources by eliminating much of the overhead required to deploy and manage applications Saves money in the application development process by enabling economies of scale through enforcement of standardization and avoiding hidden cost of middleware misconfigurations Software development quality is enhanced through the use of (..)

Disaster Recovery 70

Disaster Recovery Healthcare Load Balancer Applications 70

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. If you’re seeking more information on UAA, this looks like a good place to start. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Definitely worth reading, in my view.

Storage 92

Storage Vmware Linux Virtualization 92

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

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. Good stuff!

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

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. Servers/Hardware. Cabling is hardware, right?

Linux 74

Linux Load Balancer IPv6 Licensing 74

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

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.

Load Balancer 60

Load Balancer Storage Network Linux 60

KineticData

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

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. By choosing containerization of our application components, we’ve removed the uncertainties and complexities of the underlying infrastructure.

Devops 59

Devops Strategy Applications Load Balancer 59

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 6, 2021

Here’s a quick look at using Envoy as a load balancer in Kubernetes. It’s a good starting point for thinking about operating your own active-active architecture. Operating Systems/Applications. I hope this collection of links has something useful for you! Networking.

Open Source 60

Open Source Load Balancer WAN Architecture 60

Scott Lowe

JUNE 8, 2018

Kamal Kyrala discusses a method for accessing Kubernetes Services without Ingress, NodePort, or load balancers. Operating Systems/Applications. Here’s another one from David: running Juniper vQFX10K on ESXi 6.5. Personally, I’d love to see the KVM option explained.). Why is this in the networking section?

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. Operating Systems/Applications. IPVLAN is a low-latency means of providing IP connectivity to containers. VPCs, or Virtual Private Clouds, are Amazon’s software-defined networking mechanism for workloads running on AWS.).

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. It looks like there will be a follow-up to this article as well, so you may want to check back on Ajay’s site.

Load Balancer 60

Load Balancer Virtualization Authentication Tools 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

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. Operating Systems/Applications. Via Ivan Pepelnjak, I was pointed to Jon Langemak’s in-depth discussion of working with Linux VRFs.

Vmware 60

Vmware Hardware Load Balancer Apple 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

Operating Systems/Applications. John Kozej walks through how to configure vCenter HA using the NSX load balancer. AWS goes to per-second billing for EC2 instances and EBS volumes. RIP Solaris. Dusty Mabe has a multi-part blog series on Atomic Host. Virtualization. Ivan Pepelnjak speaks frankly about VMware Cloud on AWS.

Storage 60

Storage Vmware Load Balancer IPv6 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? Each month, we will kick off our community content with a live study group, allowing members of the Linux Academy community to come together and share their insights in order to learn from one another.

Linux 80

Linux Big Data Course Devops 80

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

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. These two articles are interesting (to me) because they combine both network automation and Kubernetes. I’m looking forward to seeing how NaaS evolves.

Network 60

Network Load Balancer Storage Applications 60

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. aws-load-balancer-internal annotation is present in your Service manifest.). Wrapping it up.

Internet 60

Internet Load Balancer Cloud System 60

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 17, 2015

Operating Systems/Applications. William Lam breaks down the real value of load balancing your PSC in this in-depth article. This is an older post on OpenStack availability zones and host aggregates , but useful nevertheless (for me, at least). Want to run Docker Swarm on Azure? Virtualization. Good write-up.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Architecture Hardware 60

The Accidental Successful CIO

AUGUST 3, 2011

Things like what operating system an application used no longer mattered – you could mix and match to your heart’s content. This low level software allowed multiple applications to run on the same physical hardware but believe that they had the box all to themselves. Problem: Virtual Machine Sprawl. No related posts.

Virtualization 100

Virtualization Load Balancer Data Center Vmware 100