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

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Baptiste Collard has a post on Kubernetes controllers for AWS load balancers. One takeaway from this post for me was that the new AWS load balancer controller uses a ton of annotations. Operating Systems/Applications. Xavier Avrillier digs into the Cluster API Provider for vSphere in this post.

Load Balancer 94

Load Balancer Vmware Operating Systems Architecture 94

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

All Things Distributed

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. OpsWorks uses automation to simplify operations. You define JSON templates and use them to provision and manage AWS resources, operating systems and application code. All Things Distributed. By Werner Vogels on 18 February 2013 11:30 PM.

Cloud 145

Cloud Applications Web Services Resources 145

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 6, 2021

Here’s a quick look at using Envoy as a load balancer in Kubernetes. Via Alex Mitelman’s Systems Design Weekly 015 , I was pointed to this AWS article on multi-site active-active architectures. It’s a good starting point for thinking about operating your own active-active architecture. Networking.

Open Source 105

Open Source Load Balancer WAN Architecture 105

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

All Things Distributed

MAY 8, 2012

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. All Things Distributed. Expanding the Cloud for Windows Developers. By Werner Vogels on 08 May 2012 02:00 PM. Comments (). The software that powers todayâ??s s world of Internet services has become incredibly diverse.

Development 94

Development Windows Disaster Recovery Licensing 94

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

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 21, 2022

Nick Schmidt talks about using GitOps with the NSX Advanced Load Balancer. Operating Systems/Applications. Running Docker on an M1 Max-based system? Aidan Steele examines how VPC sharing could potentially improve security and reduce cost. What do you think microsegmentation means ? Servers/Hardware.

Load Balancer 90

Load Balancer Linux Intel Cloud 90

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 27, 2021

Pablo Vidal Bouza discusses Segment’s move from SSH bastion hosts to AWS Systems Manager Session Manager. (I I was going to make a joke about AWS Systems Manager Session Manager and Corey Quinn, but I couldn’t come up with anything. Operating Systems/Applications. Good stuff.

Linux 90

Linux Load Balancer Malware Virtualization 90

Cloud Musings

DECEMBER 11, 2015

They were also able to deploy both production and development systems to the Teradata Cloud, with the option to add disaster recovery systems in the future. Through this strategy, the company was relieved of most of the care and feeding of its data warehouse.

Disaster Recovery 70

Disaster Recovery Load Balancer Healthcare Applications 70

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

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

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

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.

Load Balancer 60

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!

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

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

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

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. Via Alex Mitelman’s Systems Design Weekly 015 , I was pointed to this AWS article on multi-site active-active architectures. It’s a good starting point for thinking about operating your own active-active architecture. Networking.

Open Source 60

Open Source Load Balancer WAN Architecture 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 27, 2021

Pablo Vidal Bouza discusses Segment’s move from SSH bastion hosts to AWS Systems Manager Session Manager. (I I was going to make a joke about AWS Systems Manager Session Manager and Corey Quinn, but I couldn’t come up with anything. Operating Systems/Applications. Good stuff.

Linux 60

Linux Load Balancer Malware Virtualization 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

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. I recently got turned on to Alex Mitelman’s System Design Weekly, which is like a super-cool version of Technology Short Takes but a bit more tightly focused.

Vmware 60

Vmware Hardware Load Balancer Apple 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

Operating Systems/Applications. I recently used a variation of the information in this article to keep OTR private keys in sync among a group of OS X-based systems. 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.

Storage 60

Storage Vmware Load Balancer IPv6 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

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 5, 2020

Either way, the intent of this post is to help guide readers through the process of setting up a Kubernetes cluster on AWS—with full AWS cloud provider integration—using systems that have no Internet access. The operating system on the instances was Ubuntu 18.04. coredns k8s.gcr.io/etcd etcd k8s.gcr.io/kube-apiserver

Internet 60

Internet Load Balancer Cloud System 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

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

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. There’s something deeply satisfying about tackling a system problem when you have the physical box in front of you. Now you could combine multiple individual servers into a single physical box.

Virtualization 100

Virtualization Load Balancer Data Center Vmware 100