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netlab Release 1.3.1: BGP local-as, FRR and Cumulus Data Plane Enhancements

netlab release 1.3.1 contains major additions to FRR and Cumulus Linux, and new BGP features:

Here are some of the other goodies included in this release:

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netlab Release 1.3.1: BGP local-as, FRR and Cumulus Data Plane Enhancements

netlab release 1.3.1 contains major additions to FRR and Cumulus Linux, and new BGP features:

Here are some of the other goodies included in this release:

Read more …

Welcome to GA Week

Welcome to GA Week
Welcome to GA Week

Cloudflare ships a lot of products. Some of those products are shipped as beta, sometimes open, sometimes closed, and our huge customer base gives those betas an incredible workout. Making products work at scale, and in the heterogeneous environment of the real Internet is a challenge. We’re lucky to have so many enthusiastic customers ready to try out our betas.

And when those products exit beta they’re GA or Generally Available. This week you’ll be hearing a lot about products becoming GA.

But it’s not just about making products work and be available, it’s about making the best-of-breed. We ship early and iterate rapidly. We’ve done this over the years for WAF, DDoS mitigation, bot management, API protection, CDN and our developer platform. Today analyst firms such as Gartner, Forrester and IDC recognize us as leaders in all those areas.

That’s one reason we’re trusted by the likes of Broadcom, NCR, DHL Parcel, Panasonic, Canva, Shopify, L'Oréal, DoorDash, Garmin and more.

Over the years we’ve heard criticism that we’re the new kid on the block. The latest iteration of that is Zero Trust vendors seeing us as novices. It sounds all too familiar. It’s what the Continue reading

Weekend Reads 091622

Running a little late this week …


Smartphone shipments are forecast to shrink globally by 6.5 percent this year as many households feeling the pinch of inflation decide to prioritize paying for food, energy and other essentials over refreshing handsets.


SmartNICs have long been the domain of hyperscale and cloud datacenters, but they remain relatively uncommon in enterprise environments due in large part to the lack of software compatibility.


The last few years have demonstrated that breaches occur, no matter how much security organizations put in place.


Finally, one of the big challenges with subsea cabling has been power, and in particular how to provide power mid-cable for repeater equipment.


French cloud provider OVHcloud has opened up a Bring Your Own IP service, which it said allows customers to reuse existing public IPv4 blocks as failover addresses in the event of an outage.


Microsoft moves ahead with a plan to sunset basic authentication, and other providers are moving — or have moved — to requiring more secure authentication as well. Is your company ready?


You only have to follow cryptocurrency news casually to be struck by the size and frequency of cryptocurrency security failures.


Earlier this year, Motherboard reported Continue reading

Kubernetes 001. Building Cluster on Ubuntu Linux with Docker and Calico in 2022

Hello my friend,

The last Black Friday (in 2021) I’ve purchased some Kubernetes trainings from Linux Foundation with quite a huge discount. I’ve purchased and then has been doing nothing in their regard for quite a bit until I’ve received a notification in the beginning of the September that I have only 3 months to use the training and pass exam or it will expire. Moreover, I have 2 exams to pass, so… All my blogs for a bit will be dedicated to Kubernetes only, as I don’t have time to look into anything else for the time being. I will be using these blogs as a brain dump for me during preparation for CKA (Certified Kubernetes Administrator) and CKAD (Certified Kubernetes Application Developer). Whether I will manage it in 2,5 months, the time will show. Let’s get started.



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How Is Kubernetes Related to Network Automation?

Kubernetes is one of the most popular platforms to build Continue reading

Google Jupiter Data Center Network Fabric – New Way of Building Data Center Network Underlay

Google’s Datacenter Optical Circuit Switches and Jupiter network fabric Google’s data centers are unlike any other. It seems they have windows like normal houses because as from the last SIGCOMM’22 presentation, they took their SPINE switches and threw them right out of that window. Google worked on the Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS) for years in order to build an Optical Circuit Switch (OCS) that would enable dynamic reconfiguration of optical connections between switches in the data center. Optical Circuit Switch enables on-the-fly data center fabric aggregation block switch connections reconfiguration without the need for physical rewiring. And most interestingly, the

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Heavy Networking 647: Fortinet’s ZTNA Differentiation Starts With The OS (Sponsored)

A full zero trust architecture goes up and down the stack, bringing in policy and enforcement strategies from the application layer, all the way down into the network. On today's Heavy Networking podcast we discuss zero trust network access, or ZTNA, with sponsor Fortinet. ZTNA is but one part of a robust zero trust architecture, but what a crucial component it is. Alex Samonte, Director of Technical Architecture, joins us to get into nerdy specifics about Fortinet’s ZTNA.

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Heavy Networking 647: Fortinet’s ZTNA Differentiation Starts With The OS (Sponsored)

A full zero trust architecture goes up and down the stack, bringing in policy and enforcement strategies from the application layer, all the way down into the network. On today's Heavy Networking podcast we discuss zero trust network access, or ZTNA, with sponsor Fortinet. ZTNA is but one part of a robust zero trust architecture, but what a crucial component it is. Alex Samonte, Director of Technical Architecture, joins us to get into nerdy specifics about Fortinet’s ZTNA.

How Idit Levine’s Athletic Past Fueled Solo.io‘s Startup

How Idit Levine’s Athletic Past Fueled Solo.io‘s Startup “I was basically going to compete with all my international friends for two minutes without parents, without anything,” Levine said. “I think it made me who I am today. It’s really giving you a lot of confidence to teach you how to handle situations … stay calm and still focus.” Developing that calm and focus proved an asset during Levine’s subsequent career in professional basketball in Israel, and when she later started her own company. In this episode of The Tech Founder Odyssey podcast series, Levine, founder and CEO of Colleen Coll and Heather Joslyn of The New Stack After finishing school and service in the Israeli Army, Levine was still unsure of what she wanted to do. She noticed her brother and sister’s fascination with computers. Soon enough, she recalled,  “I picked up a book to teach myself how to program.” Continue reading

Redundancy Is Not Resiliency

Most people carry a spare tire in their car. It’s there in case you get a flat and need to change the tire before you can be on your way again. In my old VAR job I drove a lot away from home and to the middle of nowhere so I didn’t want to rely on roadside assistance. Instead I just grabbed the extra tire out of the back if I needed it and went on my way. However, the process wasn’t entirely hitless. Even the pit crew for a racing team needs time to change tires. I could probably get it done in 20 minutes with appropriate cursing but those were 20 minutes that I wasn’t doing anything else beyond fixing a tire.

Spare tires are redundant. You have an extra thing to replace something that isn’t working. IT operations teams are familiar with redundant systems. Maybe you have a cold spare on the shelf for a switch that might go down. You might have a cold or warm data center location for a disaster. You could even have redundant devices in your enterprise to help you get back in to your equipment if something causes it to go Continue reading

The Basics of Network Address Translation (NAT)

The last video in the 2-hour-long Network Addressing part of How Networks Really Work discusses Network Address Translation.

After watching it, you might want to spend some extra quality time (with a bit of soap opera vibe) enjoying the recent ‌Dual ISP deployment operational issues and uncertainties thread on the v6ops mailing list with a “surprising” result: NPTv6 or NAT66 is the least horrible way to do it.

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The Basics of Network Address Translation (NAT)

The last video in the 2-hour-long Network Addressing part of How Networks Really Work discusses Network Address Translation.

After watching it, you might want to spend some extra quality time (with a bit of soap opera vibe) enjoying the recent ‌Dual ISP deployment operational issues and uncertainties thread on the v6ops mailing list with a “surprising” result: NPTv6 or NAT66 is the least horrible way to do it.

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ARM updates Neoverse enterprise processor roadmap

Arm has introduced the next generation of its Neoverse high performance core technology, and Nvidia will be one of the first licensees to offer it out of the gate.Arm introduced the Neoverse N-Series processors for data center use in 2019, along with the Neoverse E-Series for edge computing and the Neoverse V-Series for high performance computing (HPC).For Neoverse V2, Arm is claiming higher per-thread performance at half the power consumption of its x86 competitors. Dermot O’Driscoll, vice president of product solutions at Arm, said on a conference call with journalists that the main aim of V2 is improved performance for cloud and single-thread workloads while balancing power consumption.To read this article in full, please click here

ARM updates Neoverse enterprise processor roadmap

Arm has introduced the next generation of its Neoverse high performance core technology, and Nvidia will be one of the first licensees to offer it out of the gate.Arm introduced the Neoverse N-Series processors for data center use in 2019, along with the Neoverse E-Series for edge computing and the Neoverse V-Series for high performance computing (HPC).For Neoverse V2, Arm is claiming higher per-thread performance at half the power consumption of its x86 competitors. Dermot O’Driscoll, vice president of product solutions at Arm, said on a conference call with journalists that the main aim of V2 is improved performance for cloud and single-thread workloads while balancing power consumption.To read this article in full, please click here

How to configure a standby Azure AD Connect server

Organizations often use Azure AD Connect to maintain the relationship between their on-prem active directory and their Office 365/Azure cloud instance, and when doing this, it’s important that they build in redundancy with business continuity in mind.Recently our organization sought to make two meaningful changes to its sync relationship: set up a non-domain-controller AD Connect server configure the existing sync server as a standby for failover in the event of problems with the primary server [ Get regularly scheduled insights by signing up for Network World newsletters. ]To read this article in full, please click here

How to configure a standby Azure AD Connect server

Organizations often use Azure AD Connect to maintain the relationship between their on-prem active directory and their Office 365/Azure cloud instance, and when doing this, it’s important that they build in redundancy with business continuity in mind.Recently our organization sought to make two meaningful changes to its sync relationship: set up a non-domain-controller AD Connect server configure the existing sync server as a standby for failover in the event of problems with the primary server [ Get regularly scheduled insights by signing up for Network World newsletters. ]To read this article in full, please click here

Juniper Apstra Freeform Supports New Topologies, Protocols For Data Center Automation–With Caveats

Juniper Apstra has introduced Freeform, a new way to consume Apstra's data center automation platform without being tied to stringent reference architectures. While Freeform expands the network topologies and protocols Apstra can work with, it comes with its own tradeoffs.

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