Attend Future:NET 2019 – a Premier Networking Event
What is Future:NET?
Is it a thinktank? A forum? An incubator?
4 years ago VMware launched Future:NET with a simple idea of bringing together some of the brightest minds in networking together for an open and honest conversation about the future direction of networking.
While other networking conferences have been reduced to vendor showcases, Future:NET has banned product pitches in exchange for open debates that foster intellectual conversation among professionals across the industry.
Why Attend Future:NET 2019?
Come join us at Future:NET 2019, a premier networking technology event, where we are bringing together everyone from enterprises, startups, and academics to debate and challenge the status quo. Wizards may predict the future, but you should plan to come and play a key role with interactive sessions and network with your peers.
This year we are continuing the tradition of open conversation on technology shifts, the organizational challenges they bring and asking the question “are we really making things simple?”. Topics range from the emergence of XaaS, integrated operation models (SOCs vs NOCs), and the effect of 5G, LISP, and v6 on networking. Join experts from Microsoft, AWS, Stanford, and more as they drive deep technical discussions on the future of the Continue reading
VMware Cloud on AWS: NSX Networking and Security eBook
Check out my latest book co-authored with my colleagues Gilles Chekroun (@twgilles) and Nico Vibert (@nic972) on VMware NSX networking and security in VMware Cloud on AWS. Thank you Tom Gillis (@_tomgillis), Senior Vice President/General Manager, Networking and Security Business Unit for writing the foreword and providing some great insight.
Download the eBook for Free
I’ve been very fortunate to have the opportunity to publish my second VMware Press book. My first book was VMware NSX Multi-site Solutions and Cross-vCenter NSX Design: Day 1 Guide. This book was focused very much on NSX on prem and across multiple sites. In my latest book with Gilles and Nico, the focus was on NSX networking and security in the cloud and cloud/hybrid cloud solutions.
You can download the free ebook here:
In this book you’ll learn how VMware Cloud on AWS with NSX networking and security provides a robust cloud/hybrid cloud solution. With VMware Cloud on AWS extending or moving to the cloud is no longer a daunting task. In this book, we discuss use cases and solutions while also providing a detailed walkthrough of Continue reading
Connecting ASA to Umbrella SIG with PBR
This article explores the specific configuration of Cisco ASA when using it to establish a tunnel for Umbrella SIG. The first question many may have is, “What exactly is SIG?” The answer to that is quite simple–SIG is an acronym for Secure Internet Gateway and in the Umbrella implementation it is basically a cloud-delivered firewall. In other words, the common Cisco Umbrella Dashboard can apply a policy to traffic delivered through the service by a tunneled connection to an on-premises network device. Also, in other words, Umbrella isn’t just for DNS.
The first thing to note is that this is very much a simple, stateful, cloud firewall for outbound traffic. Policy can be applied to one or more tunnels and a tunnel represents a connection back to a device. So this is a way that a network administrator can apply and maintain outbound policy across a large distributed network with very little ongoing effort in terms of changes. The current iteration of Umbrella SIG is outbound only. If the requirements include public-facing services, there is still a need for doing that in a traditional way using traditional mechanism (NAT, ACL, etc) alongside this configuration.
I started Continue reading
5 Things to Try with Docker Desktop WSL 2 Tech Preview
As a refresher, this preview makes use of the new Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) version that Microsoft recently made available on Windows insider fast ring. It has allowed us to provide improvements to file system sharing, boot time and access to some new features for Docker Desktop users.
To do this we have changed quite a bit about how we interact with the operating system compared to Docker Desktop on Windows today:
Want to give it a go?
- Get setup on a Windows machine on the latest Windows Insider build. The first step for this is heading over to the Microsoft and getting set up as a Windows Insider: https://insider.windows.com/en-gb/getting-started/
- You’ll need to install the latest release branch (at least build version 18932) and you will then want to enable the WSL 2 feature in Windows: https://docs.microsoft. Continue reading
Why I’m Helping Cloudflare Grow in Australia & New Zealand (A/NZ)
I’ve recently joined Cloudflare as Head of Australia and New Zealand (A/NZ). This is an important time for the company as we continue to grow our presence locally to address the demand in A/NZ, recruit local talent, and build on the successes we’ve had in our other offices around the globe. In this new role, I’m eager to grow our brand recognition in A/NZ and optimise our reach to customers by building up my team and channel presence.
A little about me
I’m a Melburnian born and bred (most livable city in the world!) with more than 20 years of experience in our market. From guiding strategy and architecture of the region’s largest resources company, BHP, to building and running teams and channels, and helping customers solve the technical challenges of their time, I have been in, or led, businesses in the A/NZ Enterprise market, with a focus on network and security for the last six years.
Why Cloudflare?
I joined Cloudflare because I strongly believe in its mission to help build a better Internet, and believe this mission, paired with its massive global network, will enable the company to continue to deliver incredibly innovative solutions to customers of Continue reading
Rome Is The Fulcrum Of AMD’s Datacenter Pivot
The good news about having a diverse product line, as chip maker AMD increasingly does, is that the company operates like a multi-cylinder engine and that not all of the lines need to be firing full bore for the business to accelerate down its roadmap. …
Rome Is The Fulcrum Of AMD’s Datacenter Pivot was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
Write Maintainable Integration Tests with Docker
Testcontainer is an open source community focused on making integration tests easier across many languages. Gianluca Arbezzano is a Docker Captain, SRE at Influx Data and the maintainer of the Golang implementation of Testcontainer that uses the Docker API to expose a test-friendly library that you can use in your test cases.
All of these integration points require different layers of testing. Unit tests increase how fast you write code because you can mock all of your dependencies, set the expectation for your function and iterate until you get the desired transformation. But, we need more. We need to make sure that the integration with Redis, MongoDB or a microservice works as expected, not just that the mock works as we wrote it. Both are Continue reading
Google Targets AWS, Azure With Cloud Migration Tools
The new and updated cloud migration and networking tools are tied to its Kubernetes-based Anthos...
Datanauts 170: NRE Labs – A First Step For Network Automation Training
The Datanauts explore NRE Labs, a free site where network engineers, or anyone, can get training on automation concepts and tools. NRE Labs is backed financially by Juniper Networks, but it's a free and open-source project that welcomes community involvement. Matt Oswalt is our guide for this tour of NRE Labs.
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Amazon Beefs Up Storage With E8 Acquisition, Reports Say
E8 Storage makes flash storage on a rack-scale architecture for enterprises building private clouds...
T-Mobile Touts Multi-Vendor, Standalone 5G and Verizon Rolls Out Service in New Cities
Nokia and Cisco provided the core, Ericsson provided the radio, and MediaTek provided the device...
Bringing DevOps Control To Bear On AI Applications
Enterprises are putting a lot of time, money, and resources behind their nascent artificial intelligence efforts, banking on the fact that they can automate the way application leverage the massive amounts of customer and operational data they are keeping. …
Bringing DevOps Control To Bear On AI Applications was written by Jeffrey Burt at .
Sometimes, AI Hardware Economics Argues For Colocation
Nvidia’s DGX platforms are powerhouses for training neural networks, offering up to 2 petaflops of peak machine learning performance. …
Sometimes, AI Hardware Economics Argues For Colocation was written by Michael Feldman at .
When It Comes to Security Architecture, Edge Is Where It’s At
There are billions of reasons why network security needs to be pushed to the edge, and Netskope is...
Decoding a Kubernetes Service Account Token
Recently, while troubleshooting a separate issue, I had a need to get more information about the token used by Kubernetes Service Accounts. In this post, I’ll share a quick command-line that can fully decode a Service Account token.
Service Account tokens are stored as Secrets in the “kube-system” namespace of a Kubernetes cluster. To retrieve just the token portion of the Secret, use -o jsonpath like this (replace “sa-token” with the appropriate name for your environment):
kubectl -n kube-system get secret sa-token \
-o jsonpath='{.data.token}'
The output is Base64-encoded, so just pipe the output into base64:
kubectl -n kube-system get secret sa-token \
-o jsonpath='{.data.token}' | base64 --decode
The result you’re seeing is a JSON Web Token (JWT). You could use the JWT web site to decode the token, but given that I’m a fan of the CLI I decided to use this JWT CLI utility instead:
kubectl -n kube-system get secret sa-token \
-o jsonpath='{.data.token}' | base64 --decode | \
jwt decode -
The final -, for those who may not be familiar, is the syntax to tell the jwt utility to look at STDIN for the JWT it needs to Continue reading