UK competition agency provisionally OKs Broadcom’s $6B VMware acquisition

The UK’s Competition Market Authority (CMA) has provisionally cleared Broadcom’s proposed acquisition of VMWare, paving the way for the $61 billion deal to go ahead.In November 2022, the CMA announced it was launching an in-depth investigation into the proposed deal, looking into whether the proposed merger “may be expected to result in a substantial lessening of competition within any market or markets in the United Kingdom for goods or services.”In particular, the CMA was concerned that the deal could harm the ability of Broadcom’s rivals to compete with VMware’s server virtualisation software, and if there would be a potential financial benefit to Broadcom and VMware if they were to make rival products work less well with VMware’s softwareTo read this article in full, please click here

Cloudflare Zaraz steps up: general availability and new pricing

Cloudflare Zaraz steps up: general availability and new pricing

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Cloudflare Zaraz has transitioned out of beta and is now generally available to all customers. It is included under the free, paid, and enterprise plans of the Cloudflare Developer Platform. Visit our docs to learn more on our different plans.

Cloudflare Zaraz steps up: general availability and new pricing

Zaraz is part of the Cloudflare Developer Platform

Cloudflare Zaraz is a solution that developers and marketers use to load third-party tools like Google Analytics 4, Facebook CAPI, TikTok, and others. With Zaraz, Cloudflare customers can easily transition to server-side data collection with just a few clicks, without the need to set up and maintain their own cloud environment or make additional changes to their website for installation. Server-side data collection, as facilitated by Zaraz, simplifies analytics reporting from the server rather than loading numerous JavaScript files on the user's browser. It's a rapidly growing trend due to browser limitations on using third-party solutions and cookies. The result is significantly faster websites, plus enhanced security and privacy on the web.

We've had Zaraz in beta mode for a year and a half now. Throughout this time, we've dedicated our efforts to meeting as many customers as we could, gathering feedback, and Continue reading

Day Two Cloud 203: Becoming An SRE – It’s More Than Just Software Skills

If you want to be a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) you need strong software skills. You also have to be versed in observability, incident response, capacity planning, change management, performance, even security. But wait, there's more! Our guest on today's Day Two Cloud argues you need strong communication skills, emotional intelligence, personal resilience, and the ability to work with a team. Our guest is Amin Astaneh.

Day Two Cloud 203: Becoming An SRE – It’s More Than Just Software Skills

If you want to be a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) you need strong software skills. You also have to be versed in observability, incident response, capacity planning, change management, performance, even security. But wait, there's more! Our guest on today's Day Two Cloud argues you need strong communication skills, emotional intelligence, personal resilience, and the ability to work with a team. Our guest is Amin Astaneh.

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Gartner: Generative AI not yet influencing IT spending, but enterprises should plan for it

While the hype around generative AI is palpable, enterprise IT spending so far has not been impacted by it.That is one of the main takeaways from Gartner’s quarterly IT spending forecast, which finds that worldwide IT spending is projected to total $4.7 trillion in 2023, an increase of 4.3% from 2022.Data center systems spending was down slightly year-over-year, but most other enterprise spending will increase, including software, IT and communications services outlay. according to the research firm.“IT projects are shifting from a focus on external facing deliverables such as revenue and customer experience, to more inward facing efforts focused on optimization,” said John-David Lovelock, distinguished VP analyst at Gartner, in a statement.To read this article in full, please click here

Unlocking efficiency: Harnessing the capabilities of ansible-builder 3.0

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We recently announced the general availability of Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.4, This blog outlines the features of execution environment builder (ansible-builder) 3.0 that was included with this latest release. 

With the introduction of Ansible Automation Platform 2, we introduced the concept of automation execution environments. A key part of enabling our customers to create, manage, and scale their automation, they are portable Ansible runtime environments which enable us to truly decouple the control and execution planes in Ansible Automation Platform. Automation execution environments replace the traditional virtual environments in Ansible Tower by providing a powerful dependency management solution. Customers can also improve their automation run efficiency, as they are lightweight Ansible runtime environments.

In general, an automation execution environment includes:

  • Base UBI 8/9 image.
  • A version of Python
  • A version of ansible-core
  • Python modules/dependencies
  • Ansible Content Collections (optional)

The execution environment builder tool was built to aid in the creation of execution environments for Ansible customers and users. It provides a definition schema that is based on the above execution environment requirements.

 

Ansible-builder 3.0 enhancements

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The Arrival of Open AI Networking

The Arrival of Open AI Networking

Recently I attended the 50th golden anniversary of Ethernet at the Computer History Museum. It was a reminder of how familiar and widely deployed Ethernet is and how it has evolved by orders of magnitude. Since the 1970s, it has progressed from a shared collision network at 2.95 megabits in the file/print/share era to the promise of Terabit Ethernet switching in the AI/ML era. Legacy Ethernot* alternatives such as Token Ring, FDDI, and ATM generally get subsumed by Ethernet. I believe history is going to repeat itself for AI networks.

AWS Advanced Networking Speciality 1.3:Considerations for encryption and authentication with load balancers (for example, TLStermination, TLS passthrough)

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High-Level points that the article covers — Exam topics

Data Protection in ELB

AWS Shared-Responsibility Model defines how data protection applies in ELBs. It boils down to AWS protecting global infrastructure while the service consumer is more responsible for preserving the content and control over the hosted content.

Few important suggestions for accessing/Securing

  • MFA for accounts
  • TLS 1.2 or TLS 1.3 for AWS resource communication
  • Logging with AWS CloudTrail
  • Amazon Macie — Discovering and securing sensitive data in S3
  • FIP140–2 — Fips Endpoint

Encryption

Encryption at rest: Server-side encryption for S3 (SSE-S3) is used for ELB access logs. ELB automatically encrypts each log file before storing it in the S3 bucket and decrypts the access log files when you access them. Each log file is encrypted with a unique key, which is encrypted with a master key that is regularly rotated.

Encryption in Transit:

HTTPS/TLS traffic can be terminated at the ELB. ELB can encrypt and decrypt the traffic instead of additional EC2 instances or current EC2 backend instances doing this TLS termination. Using ACM (AWS Certificate Continue reading

AWS Advanced Networking Speciality 1.3: AWS Load Balancer Controller for Kubernetes clusters

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Various Aspects of this post

Before understanding LoadBalancer Service, it’s worth understanding a few things about NodePort service.

NodePort Service :

NodePort service opens a port on each node. External agents can connect directly to the node on the NodePort. If not mentioned, a randomly chosen service is picked up for NodePort. LoadBalancing here is managed by front-end service, which listens to a port and load balances across the Pods, which responds to service requests.

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LoadBalancer Service:

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Like NodePort Service, the LoadBalancer service extends the functionality by adding a load balancer in front of all the nodes. Kubernetes requests ELB and registers all the nodes. It’s worth noting that Load Balancer will not detect where the pods are running. Worker nodes are added as backend instances in the load balancer. The classic-load balancer is the default LB the service chooses and can be changed to NLB(Network Load Balancer). CLB routes the requests to Front-end, then to internal service ports Continue reading

The Packet Pushers Welcome CEO Jennifer Tribe

We’re excited to announce Jennifer Tribe has joined Packet Pushers Interactive as our first-ever CEO! Jennifer’s mission is to help grow the Packet Pushers podcast network, increase our visibility and reach in the tech community, and bring in new listeners and clients. Jennifer’s skill set and experience are ideal for this position. She’s been a […]

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Implementing workload-centric Web Application Firewall (WAF) using Calico

Microservices security is a growing concern for businesses in the face of increasing cyber threats. With application layer attacks being a leading cause of breaches, it’s more important than ever to safeguard the HTTP-based communication between microservices within a Kubernetes cluster. Traditional web application firewalls (WAFs) are not designed to address this specific challenge, but Calico WAF offers a unique solution.

What is a workload-centric WAF?

Calico WAF, a workload-centric web application firewall, brings a fresh, cloud-native approach to securing microservices communication. Unlike traditional WAFs deployed at the edge of a Kubernetes cluster, Calico WAF focuses on protecting the intra-cluster traffic and applies zero-trust rules specifically designed for microservices within your cluster.

This innovative solution defends against common HTTP-layer attacks, such as server-side request forgery (SSRF), improper HTTP header type, occurring within the cluster. It seamlessly integrates with Calico Cloud network policies, enabling the enforcement of security controls at the host level for selected pods.

Calico WAF ensures the secure communication between microservices within your Kubernetes cluster, reducing the risk of vulnerabilities and threats. By adopting Calico WAF, businesses can confidently fortify the HTTP-based communication channels within their microservices architecture. This comprehensive approach enhances the overall security posture of Continue reading

Full Stack Journey 080: Career Transitions Via Cloud, Infrastructure, And Content Creation With Rishab Kumar

Today's Full Stack Journey talks with Rishab Kumar, developer advocate at Twilio. He and Scott Lowe discuss three key things Rishab learned in public cloud, Infrastructure as Code, and creating content that helped his career transitions.

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Fortinet unveils data center firewalls with AI support

Fortinet has released two new high-speed, next generation firewalls designed to protect data center assets.The 387Gbps 3200F series and 164Gbps 900G series feature support for the vendor’s AI-Powered Security Services, which blend AI and machine-learning technologies to make customers aware of cyber threats and act on protecting resources much more quickly, according to Nirav Shah, vice president of products and solutions at Fortinet.FortiGuard AI-Powered Security Services use real-time data from Fortinet’s threat researchers at FortiGuard Lab to monitor for new dangers. “We look at terabytes of data every day, and that's where we run our AI and machine learning to see different things – whether we need to enable AI-powered services with IPS, or utilize sandbox technologies to mitigate them,” Shah said. “If you look at the cybersecurity industry, and the amount of data that we see, and the patterns and other things that we need to recognize to find the threats – [it] is extremely tough if you do it manually.”To read this article in full, please click here

Fortinet unveils data center firewalls with AI support

Fortinet has released two new high-speed, next generation firewalls designed to protect data center assets.The 387Gbps 3200F series and 164Gbps 900G series feature support for the vendor’s AI-Powered Security Services, which blend AI and machine-learning technologies to make customers aware of cyber threats and act on protecting resources much more quickly, according to Nirav Shah, vice president of products and solutions at Fortinet.FortiGuard AI-Powered Security Services use real-time data from Fortinet’s threat researchers at FortiGuard Lab to monitor for new dangers. “We look at terabytes of data every day, and that's where we run our AI and machine learning to see different things – whether we need to enable AI-powered services with IPS, or utilize sandbox technologies to mitigate them,” Shah said. “If you look at the cybersecurity industry, and the amount of data that we see, and the patterns and other things that we need to recognize to find the threats – [it] is extremely tough if you do it manually.”To read this article in full, please click here

How to determine your Linux system’s filesystem types

Linux systems use a number of file system types – such as Ext, Ext2, Ext3, Ext4, JFS, XFS, ZFS, XFS, ReiserFS and btrfs. Fortunately, there are a number of commands that can look at your file systems and report on the type of each of them. This post covers seven ways to display this information.To begin, the file system types that are used on Linux systems are described below.File system types Ext4 is the fourth generation of the ext file system, released in 2008 and pretty much the default since 2010. It supports file systems as big as 16 terabytes. It also supports unlimited subdirectories where ext3 only supports 32,000. Yet it’s backward compatible with both ext3 and ext2, thus allowing them to be mounted with the same driver. Ext4 is also very stable, widely supported and compatible with solid state drives.To read this article in full, please click here

How to determine your Linux system’s filesystem types

Linux systems use a number of file system types – such as Ext, Ext2, Ext3, Ext4, JFS, XFS, ZFS, XFS, ReiserFS and btrfs. Fortunately, there are a number of commands that can look at your file systems and report on the type of each of them. This post covers seven ways to display this information.To begin, the file system types that are used on Linux systems are described below.File system types Ext4 is the fourth generation of the ext file system, released in 2008 and pretty much the default since 2010. It supports file systems as big as 16 terabytes. It also supports unlimited subdirectories where ext3 only supports 32,000. Yet it’s backward compatible with both ext3 and ext2, thus allowing them to be mounted with the same driver. Ext4 is also very stable, widely supported and compatible with solid state drives.To read this article in full, please click here

Google Gives A Peek At What A Quantum Computer Can Do

Four years ago, Google engineers boasted of achieving “quantum supremacy” following experiments that showed its 53-qubit Sycamore quantum system solving problems that classical supercomputers either can’t or take a very long time to accomplish. …

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