Gerben Wierda published a nice description of common reactions to new unicorn-dust-based technologies:
He uses generative AI as an example to explain why it might be a bad idea that people in the first two categories make strategic decisions, but of course nothing ever stops people desperately believing in vendor fairy tales, including long-distance vMotion, SDN or intent-based networking.
The introduction of writing and agriculture were watershed events for humanity, and are forever interlinked. …
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Data is by its nature a messy beast, and it has only become more so as workloads have found their way out of the datacenter and into the cloud and even all the way out to the edge. …
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Whether you run Kubernetes on-prem, in the cloud, or a combination of the two, one thing holds true – there is always a Control Plane element and a Worker Node element. Without them, Kubernetes wouldn’t exist. This post looks at the Control Plane and the Worker Node, including which components are in each, why each […]
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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 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
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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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:
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 version 3.0 introduces some major changes in the definition schema to help customers Continue reading
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.
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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
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
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Before understanding LoadBalancer Service, it’s worth understanding a few things about 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.
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
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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