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.

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Development Windows Disaster Recovery Licensing 94

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

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. Brian Ragazzi shares a lesson learned the hard way regarding VVols: place the VSM/VASA on a non-VVol storage location. A command-line client for Twitter ? Yes, please! (I

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Vmware Linux Storage Network 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. Operating Systems/Applications. Cormac Hogan has a brief update on storage options for containers on VMware.

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Vmware Linux Storage Load Balancer 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. Servers/Hardware. Nothing this time (sorry!). Ben Evans has a four-part series (so far) on vSAN.

Load Balancer 60

Load Balancer Vmware Hardware Open Source 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

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.

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Load Balancer Vmware Windows Cloud 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. It is hardware switch independent. This article was originally posted on blog.scottlowe.org.

Intel 68

Intel Load Balancer Architecture Virtualization 68

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

Operating Systems/Applications. The series starts with part 0 (preparation), and continues with part 1 (mostly about rpm-ostree ), part 2 (container storage), part 3 (rebase, upgrade, and rollback), part 4 (package layering and experimental features), and part 5 (containerized and non-containerized applications). RIP Solaris.

Storage 60

Storage Vmware Load Balancer IPv6 60

Scott Lowe

JUNE 8, 2018

Kamal Kyrala discusses a method for accessing Kubernetes Services without Ingress, NodePort, or load balancers. AWS adds local NVMe storage to the M5 instance family; more details here. What I found interesting is that the local NVMe storage is also hardware encrypted. Operating Systems/Applications.

Load Balancer 60

Load Balancer Vmware Storage Intel 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. Virtualization.

Load Balancer 60

Load Balancer Storage Network Linux 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? Virtualization.

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.

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Load Balancer Cloud Vmware Applications 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!

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Load Balancer Intel Operating Systems Hardware 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? Students will get hands-on training by installing and configuring containers and thoughtfully selecting a persistent storage strategy. Stay tuned to the Linux Academy blog for further details.

Linux 80

Linux Big Data Course Devops 80

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

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

JUNE 21, 2019

David Holder walks through removing unused load balancer IP allocations in NSX-T when used with PKS. Operating Systems/Applications. Cormac Hogan has recently published three good articles on storage in Kubernetes (the articles are all part of a larger “Kubernetes Storage on vSphere” series).

Network 60

Network Load Balancer Storage Applications 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

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

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

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? The recent release of CentOS 7.2

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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. Kotsovinos points out that a VM is really a collection of interconnected physical subsystems : server, storage, and network. No longer will the storage team be able to just focus on storage issues.

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Virtualization Load Balancer Data Center Vmware 100