Kernel of Truth season 2 episode 12: Innovation in the data center
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In this podcast we have an in-depth conversation about the different types and levels of innovation in the data center and where we see it going. Spiderman aka Rama Darbha and host Brian O’Sullivan are joined by a new guest to the podcast, VP of Marketing Ami Badani. They share that while innovation in the data center doesn’t appear sexy, outside of network engineers, in reality there has been a huge paradigm shift in the way data centers have built and operated last 3 years. So what does that mean? How is automation involved in this conversation? Listen here to find out.
Guest Bios
Brian O’Sullivan: Brian currently heads Product Management for Cumulus Linux. For 15 or so years he’s held software Product Management positions at Juniper Networks as well as other smaller companies. Once he saw the change that was happening in the networking space, he decided to join Cumulus Networks to be a part of the open networking innovation. When not working, Brian is a voracious reader and has held a variety of jobs, including Continue reading
IPv6 Buzz 032: LinkedIn Recruits IPv6 – Challenges And Lessons Learned
LinkedIn has been working with IPv6 for years. On today's IPv6 Buzz episode, LinkedIn engineer Franck Martin discusses the technical and cultural challenges of adoption, explores why the company engaged with IPv6, and shares lessons to help others with their own deployments.IPv6 Buzz 032: LinkedIn Recruits IPv6 – Challenges And Lessons Learned
LinkedIn has been working with IPv6 for years. On today's IPv6 Buzz episode, LinkedIn engineer Franck Martin discusses the technical and cultural challenges of adoption, explores why the company engaged with IPv6, and shares lessons to help others with their own deployments.
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Save the Date: 4th Summit on Community Networks in Africa
The 4th Summit on Community Networks (CNs) in Africa will take place in Dodoma, Tanzania from 28 October to 2 November 2019. The Summit hopes to promote the creation and growth of CNs, increase collaboration between CN operators in the region, and provide an opportunity for them to engage with other stakeholders.
The main activities planned include:
- Training Workshop: 28-29 October
- CN Summit Plenary: 30-31 October
- Site Visit to Kondoa Community Network: 1-2 November
The event is targeted at CN operators, policy makers, researchers, evangelists, sponsors, and related networks such as community radio.
Last year over 100 participants from 20 countries, 13 of them African, gathered in Wild Lubanzi, in one of the deepest rural areas of the Eastern Cape. The 3rd Summit on CNs in Africa was organized by the Internet Society,Zenzeleni Networks NPC, and APC from 2-7 September 2018. For the approximate 40 participants from surrounding communities, the Summit was their first international conference – or conference of any kind. It was exciting to see them absorb everything and feel proud of their neighbors in Mankosi, home of the Zenzeleni project, one of many community networks in Africa.
CNs offer local solutions to the connectivity Continue reading
REST API 2. Basics cheat sheet (Ansible, Bash, Postman, and Python) for POST/DELETE using NetBox and Docker as examples
Hello my friend,
In the previous blogpost, we started the exciting journey in the world of REST API, where you have learned how to collect the information using GET method. Today you will learn how to create the objects using POST method and remove them using DELETE.
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This article is a continuation of the previous one. You should start with that to get the full picture.
What are we going to test?
You will learn how to use two requests
- POST for adding new information
- DELETE for removing the entries
As you might remember, the interaction with the REST API is described by CRUD model, what stands for Create, Read, Update, and Delete. In this concept, HTTP POST method represents Create and DELETE represents Delete operaions.
To put the context, Digital Ocean NetBox and Docker are the applications, which we will manage over the REST API.
Software version
The following Continue reading
AirPods Review
TL:DR - five out of ten. Maybe.
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Real Robots That Look Or Act Like Humans
Technology has been advancing by leaps and bounds. Currently, scientists and tech experts are designing artificial intelligence (AI)-programmed robots that look and act like humans. While they’re not a standard in our society quite yet, this social robot technology is real and has drastically advanced over the last few decades to the point where these humanistic look-alike robots called androids are springing up all over the place – even in Whitney Cummings’ latest Netflix standup special!
These robots are being developed to someday take over jobs in retail, hospitality, health care, child and elderly care, and even as policemen. But are these android robots as human-looking and acting as scientists would have you believe? Let’s take a closer look and see if they really are as humane as their real-life counterparts.
Superficial Robots that Resemble … Us
Scientists have built AI-driven robots that have two arms, two legs, a complete and realistic face with hair and facial expressions. Some of them can smile or frown, sit or stand, and do a number of human jobs.
From photographs and YouTube videos, many of these robots look like humans wearing a wig. However, a more close-up view leaves them resembling life-sized Continue reading
Day Two Cloud 015: How To Prepare For And Run Azure Stack
What exactly are Day Two operations for Azure Stack? Does your company have the skill sets to properly manage and support your newly deployed hybrid cloud infrastructure? Today's episode, with guest Kristopher Turner, examines all the things you have to account for when planning and then running this integrated system.
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Day Two Cloud 015: How To Prepare For And Run Azure Stack
What exactly are Day Two operations for Azure Stack? Does your company have the skill sets to properly manage and support your newly deployed hybrid cloud infrastructure? Today's episode, with guest Kristopher Turner, examines all the things you have to account for when planning and then running this integrated system.Working Together for an Internet for Women
How can we get more girls and young women involved in the Internet?
Since 2017, the Internet Society’s Women SIG has developed global actions to promote gender equality and to develop digital skills and leadership among girls and young women.
With the support of several Chapters of the Internet Society, we’ve organized global face-to-face and virtual events on security and privacy issues focused on girls and women. But this work can’t be done alone, which is why we’ve promoted collaboration within organizations, government, civil society, companies, academia, and the technical community to organize events that have a positive impact on the Internet community. (We also collaborate with EQUALS Global Partnership.)
This year, to commemorate the International Day of Girls in ICT, promoted by the International Telecommunications Union (ITU), which aims to reduce the digital gender gap and to encourage and motivate girls to participate in tech careers, we organized a series of workshops focused on digital skills for girls. The main node was organized in conjunction with the Internet Society Chapter in Guatemala and the Spain Cultural Center in Guatemala.
We also had a global celebration in El Salvador, Mexico, Panama, Honduras, Hong Kong, Burkina Faso, Senegal, Armenia, Continue reading
Tigera Secure 2.5 – Implement Kubernetes Network Security Using Your Firewall Manager
We are excited to announce the general availability of Tigera Secure 2.5. With this release, security teams can now create and enforce security controls for Kubernetes using their existing firewall manager.
Containers and Kubernetes adoption are gaining momentum in enterprise organizations. Gartner estimates that 30% of organizations are running containerized applications today, and they expect that number to grow to 75% by 2022. That’s tremendous growth considering the size and complexity of enterprise IT organizations. It’s difficult to put exact metrics on the growth in Kubernetes adoption; however, KubeCon North America attendance is a good proxy. KubeCon NA registrations grew from 1,139 in 2016 to over 8,000 in 2018 and are expected to surpass 12,000 this December, and the distribution of Corporate Registrations has increased dramatically.
Despite this growth, Kubernetes is a tiny percentage of the overall estate the security team needs to manage; sometimes less than 1% of total workloads. Security teams are stretched thin and understaffed, so it’s no surprise that they don’t have time to learn the nuances of Kubernetes and rethink their security architecture, workflow, and tools for just a handful of applications. That leads to stalled deployments and considerable friction between the application, infrastructure, Continue reading
IPv6 SLAAC Host OS Address Allocation
While rebuilding my v6 lab with a variety different host OS, I found that there is no single approach to address generation in IPv6 SLAAC networks.
I've recorded my findings below for future reference, but also as a good way to delve deeper into the murky world of IPv6 address generation and shine a light on just what is all this stuff in our 'ifconfig/ip add' commands.
TL;DR
The table below summarizes my observations
| OS | Address Generation | Temporary Address |
|--------|---|---|---|---|
| macOS 10.14.6 | Stable-privacy | Yes |
| Ubuntu 18.04 | Stable-privacy | Yes |
| Debian 10 | EUI-64👈👀 | Yes |
| Fedora 30 | Stable-privacy | No 👈👀|
| Windows 10 1903 | Randomized IID | Yes |
Lab Setup
I'm running a basic LAN topology with a combination of hardware (Windows 10 and macOS), plus virtual machines for the Linux OS.
- Virtualization platform: Hyper-V on Windows 2019 Server
- Host OS:
- Windows 10 running on an HP Z book.
- macOS version 10.14.6 running on a MBP 2017
- Ubuntu 18.04.3
- Fedora 30
- Debian 10 Stable
- Gateway: ArubaOS-Switch 2930F-8G-PoE+-2SFP+ running WC.16.07.0002
Gateway configuration:
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