T-Mobile, Sprint Combo to Spike 5G Uptake, Report Predicts
Strategy Analytics predicts the combined entity will boost adoption by 17 percent compared with the two continuing on their own.
Connect Ansible Tower and Jenkins in under 5 minutes
We often hear from customers that they are using Jenkins in some capacity or another. And since I'm a consultant, I'm lucky to hear first hand what our customers are using and how they need to integrate Ansible Tower. There has always been a way to integrate the Ansible Tower and Jenkins using tower-cli, but I thought there could be a neater, closer to native, way of doing it.
So here we go. I've recorded this short screencast to show you just how easy it is:
Below you will find a few links from the video and a link to how to try Ansible Tower.
plugins.jenkins.io/ansible-tower
wiki.jenkins.io/display/JENKINS/Ansible+Tower+Plugin
VMware Unleashes R&D Innovation Revolution at RADIO
For the first time in its history VMware invited outsiders to its annual R&D conference.
See How Docker Accelerates Digital Transformation in the Enterprise at DockerCon 2018
DockerCon has everything you and your company need in order to understand how to accelerate digital and multi-cloud initiatives with containerization. Come to network and learn from your peers, as well as gain access to leaders and innovators in the container industry.
DockerCon isn’t just for developers and this year we have unique experiences that cater to a variety of tech professionals, from developers to sys admins to enterprise architects and technical executives.
Join us in San Francisco this June to hear how industry leading organization are transforming business and IT with Docker’s container platform, Docker Enterprise Edition. To help with planning, here are our top four recommendations:
- Keynotes with the latest announcements from Docker and spotlight feature of how Liberty Mutual transformed their enterprise
- Breakout sessions for business executives including How to Build Your Containerization Strategy, Modernizing Traditional Applications with Docker, and Building a Docker Center of Excellence: Panel Discussion with MetLife, PayPal, and Splunk
- Networking with technical leaders who have already partnered with Docker, including Lockheed Martin, JCPenney and GE, Bosch, McKesson, MetLife, and more.
- Schedule time with a Docker specialist for a container maturity assessment
Containerization is one of the fastest growing cloud enabling technologies and Continue reading
Ciena Acquires Packet Design; Stock Lags on Mixed Q2
Company revenues beat expectations but profits were sunk by the skyrocketing cost of goods.
The Server Boom Town Is Built On High Component Prices
On the face of it, if you just look at the top level numbers, the server market is booming like we have not seen since the recovery in the wake of the Great Recession for a few quarters here and there between late 2009 and early 2011. …
The Server Boom Town Is Built On High Component Prices was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
MEF Unleashes SD-WAN Implementation Project
The goal is to make it easier to connect SD-WAN controllers and edge devices from different vendors.
PCCW Global Launches an International SDN Interconnect Platform
It’s based on PCCW’s worldwide IP network and SDN software it acquired from Console Connect.
Would You Like To Update Now?
This post originally appeared in Human Infrastructure Magazine, a twice-monthly newsletter from the Packet Pushers. It’s included with a free membership, which you can sign up for here. Your smartphone chirps: there’s a fresh build of the OS and you’ll need to restart. You put the phone aside as the software downloads and the device […]Using Ansible to generate complex configs.
The first thing I’ll say is that the files referenced are over at github I have been looking around for a good way to generate router/switch configs easily and quickly. Most of the tools I have seen are either not flexible enough or home brew and difficult to maintain. Ansible gives something I can use […]Book Review: Infrastructure as Code
As part of my 2018 projects, I committed to reading and reviewing more technical books this year. As part of that effort, I recently finished reading Infrastructure as Code, authored by Kief Morris and published in September 2015 by O’Reilly (more details here). Infrastructure as code is very relevant to my current job function and is an area of great personal interest, and I’d been half-heartedly working my way through the book for some time. Now that I’ve completed it, here are my thoughts.
Overall, Morris does a great job of crisply defining infrastructure as code (a somewhat vague and amorphous term at times) and outlining the key principles that are involved. Morris also does a really good job of staying high-level as he works through the various aspects of infrastructure as code and discusses some of the considerations, patterns (and anti-patterns), and recommended practices in each aspect.
The book’s high-level focus is, however, both its greatest strength as well as its greatest weakness. Because infrastructure as code can be implemented in a variety of ways with a variety of tools, the book must necessarily be high-level and somewhat abstract. As I mentioned, Morris does a really Continue reading
The NVMe Transition
A look at how vendors implementing the new storage protocol in their products and what to consider before integrating the technology into your data center.
Video: What Excites Me In Networking – Two Beer Networking
In the latest round of Two Beer Networking I talk about why I'm excited about whitebox hardware and formal verification. This show came from an audience question.How to Fully Uninstall Kaspersky’s NDIS Filter
I like Kaspersky anti-virus, and I use it regularly… (Not on my own PC mind you, but on the clients)
While I do believe they provide the best anti-virus in the market, I am not a fan of most of their other products. That goes for the Firewall, Safe Browsing, SSL Hijacking, and of course their newest addition, Secure Connection…
In a previous post, I talked about how to optimize OpenVPN by adjusting the MTU to your links. That however, is likely not going work on windows clients running Kaspersky products.
On these clients, once a packet reaches the MTU, further packets could be dropped. Furthermore, OpenVPN process and the whole tunnel could come to a halt.
Investigating further, it turned out the so called Kaspersky Anti-Virus NDIS 6 Filter is to blame. This NDIS driver seems to be incompatible with any MTU other than 1500.
The solution
The solution is to either disable the NDIS filter for the affecting interfaces (e.g. TAP interface), or completely uninstall it as a whole. Kaspersky’s support page seems to be against disabling the filter and recommends uninstalling it instead:
“It is not recommended to use Kaspersky Anti-Virus NDIS Filter by disabling Continue reading
Amazon Web Services Networking Overview
Traditional networking engineers, or virtualization engineers familiar with vSphere or VMware NSX, often feel like Alice in Wonderland when entering the world of Amazon Web Services. Everything looks and sounds familiar, and yet it all feels a bit different
I decided to create a half-day workshop (first delivery: June 13th in Zurich, Switzerland) to make it easier to grasp the fundamentals of AWS networking, and will publish high-level summaries as a series of blog posts. Let’s start with an overview of what’s different:
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