At the DockerCon show this week, Microsoft touted its ability to run containers on its Azure cloud.
It doesn’t think it will cannibalize its MPLS revenues.
It's telecom-friendly MANO software.
Over the past several weeks, there’s been a lot of talk about something called “differential privacy.” What does this mean, how does it work, and… Is it really going to be effective? The basic concept is this: the reason people can identify you, personally, from data collected off your phone, searches, web browser configuration, computer configuration, etc., is you do things just different enough from other people to create a pattern through cyber space (or rather data exhaust). Someone looking hard enough can figure out who “you” are by figuring out patterns you don’t even think about—you always install the same sorts of software/plugins, you always take the same path to work, you always make the same typing mistake, etc.
The idea behind differential security, considered here by Bruce Schneier, here, and here, is that you can inject noise into the data collection process that doesn’t impact the quality of the data for the intended use, while it does prevent any particular individual from being identified. If this nut can be cracked, it would be a major boon for online privacy—and this is a nut that deserves some serious cracking.
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Need some summer reading for your trip to the beach? We are pleased to offer three free ebook previews from our friends at Packt Publishing featuring their most popular Ansible books.
Mastering Ansible by Jesse Keating
Design, develop, and solve real world automation and orchestration needs by unlocking the automation capabilities of Ansible
Excerpt includes:
Chapter 1 - System Architecture and Design of Ansible: A detailed in and out view of Ansible's task performance
Chapter 3 - Unlocking the Power of Jinja2 Templates: Usage of the Jinja2 templating engine within Ansible
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OpenStack Administration with Ansible by Walter Bentley
Design, build, and automate 10 real-world OpenStack administrative tasks with Ansible
Excerpt includes:
Chapter 1 - An Introduction to OpenStack: A level setter on OpenStack components, concepts, and verbiage
Chapter 8 - Deploying OpenStack Features: Adding Docker to OpenStack with Ansible
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Extending Ansible by Rishabh Das
Discover how to efficiently deploy and customize Ansible in the way your platform demands
Excerpt includes:
Chapter 1 - Getting Started with Ansible: Introduction to Ansible as a tool
Chapter 4 - Exploring API: The Python API for Ansible
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