“We didn’t know the term SD-WAN,” said SimpleWAN’s CEO. But he needed some way to remotely manage the IT network of branch offices.
Cloud native applications are designed to be managed by software in all stages. This includes ongoing health checks as well as initial deployments. Human bottlenecks should be eliminated as much as possible in the technology, processes, and policies.
That quote is from the O Reilly book Cloud Native Infrastructure. On today s Datanauts episode, we talk to Justin Garrison, one of the authors and a senior systems engineer.
We dive into the chapter about managing cloud native applications, including a general conversation about the definition of a cloud-native app–that is, an application managed by software rather than humans.
Then we discuss the challenges of managing a microservices architecture, explore the concept of sidecar proxies, and walk through the process of deploying a new cloud application into production.
We also look at troubleshooting tools and techniques, and examine the necessity of service discovery and resource scheduling.
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Threat researchers discovered that access to multiple U.S. government systems are being sold worldwide on these shops for as little as $10.
The next evolution of software-defined WAN technology could transform the way enterprises manage their branch-office networks.
In this post for the Internet Society Rough Guide to IETF 102 I’ll review what’ll be happening at the IETF meeting in Montreal next week on the topic of all things IPv6.
IPv6 global adoption rates have shown slow growth since IETF 101 and are currently approaching 25% overall. With the almost total depletion of the remaining pools of new IPv4 addresses, more-and-more networks have been increasing their IPv6 deployments, with the top 15 network operators supporting nearly half-a-billion IPv6 users. In addition, 28 percent of the Alexa Top 1000 websites are IPv6-enabled, including many of the large content providers who are now delivering native IPv6 traffic to mobile devices in particular. The US recently reached 40% deployment with nearly 80% of smartphones using IPv6, whilst along with Belgium, India, Germany, Brazil and Japan who still lead the way, we’re starting to see significant growth in countries such as Switzerland, Portugal, Estonia, Uruguay, Ecuador, Peru and New Zealand.
IPv6 is always an important focus for the IETF, particularly with respect to the standardisation work related to the Internet-of-Things.
The IPv6 Maintenance (6man) Working Group is a key group and it will be meeting on Monday morning. It hasn’t published any RFCs since Continue reading
The buzz around the Internet of Things (IoT) is only increasing, to the surprise of, well, no one. We are often asked what is happening in the IETF in relation to IoT and in this short post I’d like to highlight some of the relevant activities and sessions scheduled during the upcoming IETF 102 meeting in Montreal. Also check out the IETF Journal IoT Category, the IETF IoT page, the IETF IoT Directorate, the Internet Society’s IoT page, or the Online Trust Alliance (OTA, which became an Internet Society Initiative in April 2017) IoT page for more details about many of these topics.
The IETF Hackathon, held on the weekend preceding the main IETF meeting (July 14-15), includes projects directly related to IoT, with the possibility of more being added. More information is on the Hackathon wiki. Projects of interest include those relating to:
The Thing-to-Thing Research Group (T2TRG) investigates open research issues towards turning the IoT into reality. The research group will be meeting on Thursday afternoon Continue reading
Virtual Local Area Network (VLANs) are used to logically partition physical switch ports into multiple smaller broadcast domains. VLAN A VLAN is a logically segmented group of physical switchports that reduces the broadcast domain of the physical ports to the ports within the...continue reading
In this eBrief from SDxCentral, we take an in-depth look at some of the latest developments in SD-WAN and how the technology promises to provide better security, as well as new features.