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Over 200 Docker Meetups!

Big thank you to our Docker community for the support in helping us grow to now over 200 Docker meetup groups! Without all of the Docker meetup organizers, sponsors, speakers and attendees, none of this would be possible – we are … Continued

Technology Short Take #52

Welcome to Technology Short Take #52, the latest collection of news, links, and articles from around the web on data center technologies.

Networking

  • Want to know a bit more about how OVN (Open Virtual Network) plans to integrate support for containers? See this. You might also find it useful to review this OVN presentation from the recent OpenStack Summit in Vancouver. A video recording of the presentation is also available on YouTube.
  • QualiSystems has a series of articles on open networking standards. A couple of the articles really jumped out at me—part 2 covers Open vSwitch, part 3 discusses OpenStack, part 4 discusses OpenFlow, and part 6 talks about OVSDB. There are also posts on OpenDaylight and OpFlex as well.
  • P4 is getting all the attention in the SDN world these days. What is P4? Craig Matsumoto has an overview at SDx Central; the “TL;DR” is that P4 is a high-level language aimed at describing how data plane devices process packets. If you want even more detail, then head over to the P4.org site for more information.
  • Jason Edelman, whose focus has been on network automation, recently posted an article on programming an ACI (Application Centric Infrastructure) Continue reading

Ansible/AWS/Red Hat Webinar with DLT

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The Federal Cloud First policy mandates that agencies take full advantage of cloud computing benefits to maximize capacity utilization, improve IT flexibility and responsiveness, and minimize cost. But how can you safely and reliably begin to deploy and manage your Red Hat instances at cloud scale? With IT automation, you can more easily deploy and manage your Red Hat instances in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) public cloud.

In this webinar, we’ll demonstrate how to:

  • Automate the creation of Red Hat Enterprise Linux-based AWS instances
  • Apply a security baseline to the instances
  • Deploy and manage an application

Who Should Attend: Those in the public sector who are working to move to the cloud

Why Attend: Regardless of where you are in the cloud adoption process, leveraging IT automation can help smooth the transition to the cloud.

Presenter: Justin Nemmers, director public sector at Ansible

Date & Time: Thursday, July 23, at 2PM Eastern

REGISTER HERE 

Ansible June Training Recordings

Copy_of_Add_subtitle_textIf you haven't signed up for any of our FREE Ansible trainings or webinars, head over to our Webinar page to register today.

Training classes are free, held online and run approximately 2 hours and held on the 2nd (10am EST) and 4th (1pm EST) Thursday each month.

June Training Recordings

 


Your Docker Agenda in July

DockerCon 2015 Europe may be a few months away but there are plenty of Docker events and meetups coming up this month near you! Join your local (or online) Docker community to hear firsthand about cool Docker hacks and learn more … Continued

VLAN Trunking with Mikrotik RouterOS

In this post, I’m going to show you how to configure VLAN trunking with Mikrotik RouterOS, and along the way provide a brief introduction to this software and some of the functionality it offers. While it is Linux-based, RouterOS operates quite a bit differently than a lot of the other network operating systems with which I’ve worked, and so I hope that this post will help ease the learning curve a bit for others who decide to take the same path.

Background

First, let me provide a quick bit of background. I found myself in need of a switch that was both Layer 2/3 capable with both 10/100/1000Mbps ports as well as 10Gbps SFP+ ports. Of course, this was for my home lab, so budget is a concern. I cast out a quick call on Twitter, asking for some recommendations, and a few folks recommended I have a look at RouterBoard/Mikrotik; specifically, the CRS-24G-2S+IN (see here for more details). The specs looked good, the price was reasonable, and several folks expressed their satisfaction with the product, so I bought one.

Upon receiving it, I found myself trying to unravel RouterOS (their Linux-based operating system). Their wiki is fairly helpful, but Continue reading

AnsibleFest NYC Networking Automation Panel

Untitled_design-1A few weeks ago at AnsibleFest in NYC, we did something a little bit different: we assembled a panel of networking experts and had a very interesting discussion about some of the challenges and opportunities around networking automation. With representatives from Cisco, Cumulus, World Wide Technologies, and Network to Code, we dug into some of the reasons to automate your network, the technical and organizational challenges, and we reviewed some of the new Ansible modules being written for various networking components. Network automation is an exciting and early area for us, and we are looking forward to what the future holds.