SDxCentral’s Top 10 Articles — November 2017
AT&T wants white box routers; VMware swoops on VeloCloud; Cisco Ericsson partnership wavers.
Sponsored Post: Symbiont, Loupe, Etleap, Aerospike, Stream, Scalyr, VividCortex, Domino Data Lab, MemSQL, Zohocorp
Who's Hiring?
- Symbiont is a New York-based financial technology company building new kinds of computer networks to connect independent financial institutions together and allow them to share business logic and data in real time. This involves developing a distributed system which is also decentralized, and which allows for the creation of smart contracts, self-executing cryptographic agreements among counterparties. To do so, we're using a lot of techniques in blockchain technology, as well as those from traditional distributed systems, programming language design and cryptography. We are hiring for a number of roles, from entry-level to expert, including Haskell Backend Engineer, Database Engineer, Product Engineer, Site Reliability Engineer (SRE), Programming Language Engineer and SecOps Engineer. To find out more, just e-mail us your resume.
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Fun and Informative Events
- On-demand Webinar. Fast & Frictionless - The Decision Engine for Seamless Digital Business. In this session, guest speakers Michele Goetz, Principal Analyst at Forrester Research and Matthias Baumhof, VP Worldwide Engineering at ThreatMetrix, discuss: How risk-based authentication leveraging digital identities is key to empowering customer transactions; How real-time customer trust decisions can reduce fraud and improve customer satisfaction; How a high performance Hybrid Memory Continue reading
Introducing NSX-T 2.1 with Pivotal Integration
Introducing NSX-T 2.1 with Pivotal Integration Application architectures are evolving. That shouldn’t be news to anyone. Today, emerging app architectures that leverage container-based workloads and microservices are becoming mainstream, moving from science projects in development labs to enterprise production deployments at scale. The benefits are clear. Developers and the application lifecycle, become faster, more productive,... Read more →
Introducing NSX-T 2.1 with Pivotal Integration
Application architectures are evolving. That shouldn’t be news to anyone. Today, emerging app architectures that leverage container-based workloads and microservices are becoming mainstream, moving from science projects in development labs to enterprise production deployments at scale. The benefits are clear. Developers and the application lifecycle, become faster, more productive, more agile, and more responsive to the needs of the business.
Today we’re announcing NSX-T 2.1, which will enable advanced networking and security across these emerging app architectures, just as it does for traditional 3-tier apps. More specifically, NSX-T 2.1 will serve as the networking and security platform for the recently announced VMware Pivotal Container Service (PKS), a Kubernetes solution jointly developed by VMware and Pivotal in collaboration with Google. NSX-T 2.1 will also introduce integration with the latest 2.0 release of Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF), serving as the networking and security engine behind PCF. In these environments, NSX-T will provide Layer 3 container networking and advanced networking services such as load balancing, micro-segmentation, and more.
For development teams, these integrations mean that they will be able operate quickly and consume infrastructure as code. Meanwhile, their workflows will remain the same — fast and efficient — because NSX-T will integrate tightly with these application platforms, connecting directly into the Continue reading
FICO CIO on the Costs, Concerns of Cloud Transition
Moving large-scale enterprise operations into the cloud is not a decision to be made lightly. There are engineering and financial considerations, and the process of determining the costs pros and cons of such a move is significantly more complex than simply comparing the expense of running a workload on-premises or in a public cloud.
Still, the trend is toward businesses making the move to one degree or another, driven by the easy ability to scale up or down depending on the workload and paying only for the infrastructure resources they use, not having to put up the capital expense to …
FICO CIO on the Costs, Concerns of Cloud Transition was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
Announcing the General Availability of containerd 1.0, the industry-standard runtime used by millions of users
Today, we’re pleased to announce that containerd (pronounced Con-Tay-Ner-D), an industry-standard runtime for building container solutions, has reached its 1.0 milestone. containerd has already been deployed in millions of systems in production today, making it the most widely adopted runtime and an essential upstream component of the Docker platform.
Built to address the needs of modern container platforms like Docker and orchestration systems like Kubernetes, containerd ensures users have a consistent dev to ops experience. From Docker’s initial announcement last year that it was spinning out its core runtime to its donation to the CNCF in March 2017, the containerd project has experienced significant growth and progress over the past 12 months. .
Within both the Docker and Kubernetes communities, there has been a significant uptick in contributions from independents and CNCF member companies alike including Docker, Google, NTT, IBM, Microsoft, AWS, ZTE, Huawei and ZJU. Similarly, the maintainers have been working to add key functionality to containerd.The initial containerd donation provided everything users need to ensure a seamless container experience including methods for:
- transferring container images,
- container execution and supervision,
- low-level local storage and network interfaces and
- the ability to work on both Linux, Windows and other platforms. Continue reading
CoreOS Adds Latest Kubernetes Release, Open Source Model to Tectonic
The company's vetting process found a flaw in the previous Kubernetes release.
Introducing the Cloudflare Warp Ingress Controller for Kubernetes
It’s ironic that the one thing most programmers would really rather not have to spend time dealing with is... a computer. When you write code it’s written in your head, transferred to a screen with your fingers and then it has to be run. On. A. Computer. Ugh.
Of course, code has to be run and typed on a computer so programmers spend hours configuring and optimizing shells, window managers, editors, build systems, IDEs, compilation times and more so they can minimize the friction all those things introduce. Optimizing your editor’s macros, fonts or colors is a battle to find the most efficient path to go from idea to running code.
CC BY 2.0 image by Yutaka Tsutano
Once the developer is master of their own universe they can write code at the speed of their mind. But when it comes to putting their code into production (which necessarily requires running their programs on machines that they don’t control) things inevitably go wrong. Production machines are never the same as developer machines.
If you’re not a developer, here’s an analogy. Imagine carefully writing an essay on a subject dear to your heart and then publishing it only to be Continue reading
Creating a mixed-mode Virtual Chassis Fabric (VCF)
In order to mix EX switches and QFX switches in the same VCF, you need to enable mixed-mode. This requires all members of the VCF to reboot unfortunately:
{master:1}
imtech@sw0-24c> request virtual-chassis mode fabric mixed
fpc0:
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Mode set to 'Fabric with mixed devices'. (Reboot required)
fpc2:
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
Mode set to 'Fabric with mixed devices'. (Reboot required)
fpc3:
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
Mode set to 'Fabric with mixed devices'. (Reboot required)
fpc1:
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WARNING, Virtual Chassis Fabric mode enabled without a valid software license.
Please contact Juniper Networks to obtain a valid Virtual Chassis Fabric License.
Mode set to 'Fabric with mixed devices'. (Reboot required)
{master:1}
imtech@sw0-24c>
Once you’ve cabled up your QSFP ports between the EX4300 you are adding and the QFX spines, you need to do the following:
Enable the VCF port on the QFX spine:
request virtual-chassis vc-port set pic-slot 0 port 48
VMware Adds Cloud Management Tools to SDDC Platform
This is VMware’s latest move in its ongoing push to be the “glue of the hybrid cloud.”
Communities Can Own Their Internet Destiny
Imagine you wanted to have an Internet connection and someone decided that you had to wait an undefined amount of time (maybe a year, maybe 10 years) to get access. Would you find it fair? I wouldn’t!
Unfortunately, this is the situation that millions of people in remote communities around the world have to accept. They will have Internet access only when operators decide to give them access which can be in a decade or more. These people won’t enjoy all the benefits we are enjoying today for a long time. And as more and more services go online – and exclusively online – they will not get the services they used to have since the services have moved to a new place where they are not allowed to be.
This is happening because operators can’t expand everywhere at the same time; they have to choose where they go this year, then next year, etc. There are some places where they will never go because those places are not going to bring them money. Among those regions that operators will never choose to go, we find, sadly, are the poorest rural areas that desperately need the economic and development opportunities Continue reading
Top 5 Best-Paying Networking Jobs
Networking pros with these job titles typically make more than $109,000 per year.
Tier 1 carrier performance report: November, 2017
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Stop Googling and Start Testing
Here’s a question I got on one of my ancient blog posts:
How many OSPF process ID can be used in a single VRF instance?
Seriously? You have to ask that? OK, maybe the question isn’t as simple as it looks. It could be understood as:
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