Kubernetes Unpacked 031: Is Kubernetes Getting Boring?
In today's Kubernetes Unpacked, Kristina and Michael talk about whether Kubernetes is getting boring, and how elements such as service mesh, security-centric CNIs, and movements such as GitOps, can keep Kubernetes moving forward.
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Routing information now on Cloudflare Radar
Routing is one of the most critical operations of the Internet. Routing decides how and where the Internet traffic should flow from the source to the destination, and can be categorized into two major types: intra-domain routing and inter-domain routing. Intra-domain routing handles making decisions on how individual packets should be routed among the servers and routers within an organization/network. When traffic reaches the edge of a network, the inter-domain routing kicks in to decide what the next hop is and forward the traffic along to the corresponding networks. Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) is the de facto inter-domain routing protocol used on the Internet.
Today, we are introducing another section on Cloudflare Radar: the Routing page, which focuses on monitoring the BGP messages exchanged to extract and present insights on the IP prefixes, individual networks, countries, and the Internet overall. The new routing data allows users to quickly examine routing status of the Internet, examine secure routing protocol deployment for a country, identify routing anomalies, validate IP block reachability and much more from globally distributed vantage points.
It’s a detailed view of how the Internet itself holds together.
Collecting routing statistics
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Q2 2023 Internet disruption summary
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Cloudflare operates in more than 300 cities in over 100 countries, where we interconnect with over 12,000 network providers in order to provide a broad range of services to millions of customers. The breadth of both our network and our customer base provides us with a unique perspective on Internet resilience, enabling us to observe the impact of Internet disruptions.
The second quarter of 2023 was a particularly busy one for Internet disruptions, and especially for government-directed Internet shutdowns. During the quarter, we observed many brief disruptions, but also quite a few long-lived ones. In addition to the government-directed Internet shutdowns, we also observed partial or complete outages due to severe weather, cable damage, power outages, general or unspecified technical problems, cyberattacks, military action, and infrastructure maintenance.
As we have noted in the past, this post is intended as a summary overview of observed disruptions, and is not an exhaustive or complete list of issues that have occurred during the quarter.
Government directed
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Unleashing the Potential of Multi-Cloud Automation with Ansible and Terraform
In today's rapidly evolving digital landscape, businesses are dependent on streamlined processes and efficient systems more than ever. One such revolutionary pathway towards a more efficient and flexible IT infrastructure is multi-cloud automation. In this blog, we will look at how to employ Ansible, a powerful automation tool, to tap into the immense potential of multi-cloud environments. We take you on a journey behind the scenes of our interactive labs, where our customers and prospects acquire hands-on experience with Ansible while exploring its newest features. In our labs, public clouds such as Google Cloud, AWS, and Microsoft Azure are showcased. Using Ansible we can orchestrate a symphony of seamless provisioning and optimal multi-cloud management. So, buckle up for a deep dive into the realm of multi-cloud automation, where complexity is simplified, and potential is unleashed.
The Ansible Technical Marketing team uses a variety of tools to create training labs and technical sales workshops for our field teams and customers. One of our training platforms includes Instruqt, an as-a-service learning platform, to help us create sandbox environments that can be run in your browser window. For technical tools behind the scenes, we use a combination of Ansible and Packer to build Continue reading
Day Two Cloud 204: Deploying Cloud-Delivered Security With Cisco Secure Access (Sponsored)
On today's Day Two Cloud we get inside Cisco Secure Access, a new set of cloud-delivered security services from Cisco. We discuss the security capabilities on offer, the service's architecture and components, how Cisco addresses concerns around user experience and performance, and more. This is a sponsored episode.Day Two Cloud 204: Deploying Cloud-Delivered Security With Cisco Secure Access (Sponsored)
On today's Day Two Cloud we get inside Cisco Secure Access, a new set of cloud-delivered security services from Cisco. We discuss the security capabilities on offer, the service's architecture and components, how Cisco addresses concerns around user experience and performance, and more. This is a sponsored episode.
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Micron Revs Up Bandwidth And Capacity On HBM3 Stacks
As we have seen with various kinds of high bandwidth, stacked DRAM memory to compute engines in the past decade, just adding this wide, fast, and expensive memory to a compute engine can radically improve the effective performance of the device. …
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Micron Revs Up Bandwidth And Capacity On HBM3 Stacks was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
2023 IT Pay Holds Steady Despite Economic Pressures and AI Boom
2022 was a boon year for IT salaries. 2023 came in like a beast with layoffs, raise freezes, and ChatGPT, but that beast has few teeth.6 Best Practices for Data Security Posture Management (DSPM)
DSPM can greatly enhance an enterprise’s cyber defenses and proactively protect its sensitive data against unauthorized access and other types of data breaches.SD-WAN Deployment Failures 101: Lessons From The Field
SD-WAN is a cost-effective, flexible alternative to traditional MPLS networks, but the high rate of failed deployments indicates that achieving successful implementation is not straightforward. Organizations must be prepared to embrace new experience-driven approaches to network management, such as the need for visibility into unmanaged networks, to deploy SD-WAN effectively.
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In G42, Cerebras Finds The Deep Pockets And Partnership It Needs To Grow
When you are competing against the hyperscalers and cloud builders in the AI revolution, you need backers as well as customers that have deep-pockets and that can not only think big, but pay big. …
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In G42, Cerebras Finds The Deep Pockets And Partnership It Needs To Grow was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Heavy Wireless 007: Why Networking And Security Convergence Is Important For Wireless Pros (Sponsored)
Wireless pros sit at the intersection of networking and security. On today's Heavy Wireless, sponsored by Fortinet, Keith Parsons and guest Ben Wilson discuss this convergence, why visibility into the WLAN and device identity are essential, how Fortinet integrates its Fortigate firewalls with wired and wireless neteworks for unified management and policy enforcement, and more.Heavy Wireless 007: Why Networking And Security Convergence Is Important For Wireless Pros (Sponsored)
Wireless pros sit at the intersection of networking and security. On today's Heavy Wireless, sponsored by Fortinet, Keith Parsons and guest Ben Wilson discuss this convergence, why visibility into the WLAN and device identity are essential, how Fortinet integrates its Fortigate firewalls with wired and wireless neteworks for unified management and policy enforcement, and more.
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