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Technology Short Take 176

Scott Lowe

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
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Technology Short Take 149

Scott Lowe

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.

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Technology Short Take #27

Scott Lowe

Bruce Davie and Martin Casado (with Nicira, now part of VMware) have written a post comparing the VXLAN and STT tunneling protocols. Operating Systems/Applications. I found this article on imperative vs. declarative system configuration is quite helpful in understanding Puppet’s declarative model.

Vmware 115
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Technology Short Take #25

Scott Lowe

Some folks from Nicira (now part of VMware) recently published a blog post discussing the OVSDB IETF draft (see here ). Operating Systems/Applications. If storage is your thing—especially in VMware environments—I’d recommend having a look at Cormac Hogan’s blog for his series on vSphere 5.1

Storage 92
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Technology Short Take #81

Scott Lowe

Humair Ahmed of VMware shares some details on a new control plane resiliency feature recently added to VMware NSX: Controller Disconnected Operation (CDO) mode. Operating Systems/Applications. JJ Asghar takes a look at using VMware Photon OS as the backend Docker host OS for use with test-kitchen.

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Technology Short Take 88

Scott Lowe

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. Vladan Seget shares how to create a VMware ESXi ISO image with the latest patches.

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Technology Short Take #78

Scott Lowe

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. Adrian Roberts shares a walkthrough of running Photon OS and VMware Admiral in a vCloud Air Network environment.

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