The Infotrek podcast debuts with a discussion of infrastructure redundancy, including when it should and shouldn't be used, implementation challenges, redundancy testing, and more.
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In case you missed it, Ansible 2.0’s Windows support includes a number of improvements and new features that make automating Windows with Ansible easier. Because of Red Hat’s commitment to solid cross-platform management, you’ll also see an acceleration of these kinds of improvements in future Ansible releases. I’ll highlight a few of the items I’m most excited about from 2.0, and give a quick peek at what’s scheduled for future releases.
Update management is a common pain point for Windows administrators. The new win_updates module makes it easy to orchestrate updates during your maintenance windows- no more logging into individual machines to kick off updates or hoping a scheduled update pass actually ran!
2.0 shipped with a suite of modules for managing IIS. From configuring websites, AppPools, virtual directories, and more- now Ansible can deploy and manage your IIS apps with ease.
Since WinRM doesn’t have a built-in file transfer mechanism, Ansible has to jump through some “interesting” hoops to deploy its module code and copy files from the control host to a managed Windows box. Historically, this process was very slow, and could only transfer small Continue reading
Juniper contributes its networking, including SDN.
Takeaway: I was supposed to learn life lessons by participation in “sportsball” at school. Looking back, everything I learned was wrong for the modern era. So you played sportsball because the school education systems tells you that its good for your education. Sportsball is generic term for whatever team sport you played at school – […]
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A new study sheds light on the state of OpenStack adoption in the enterprise.
The first post in this series is here.
Finally, let’s consider the first issue, the SPF run time. First, if you’ve been keeping track of the SPF run time in several locations throughout your network (you have been, right? Right?!? This should be a regular part of your documentation!), then you’ll know when there’s a big jump. But a big jump without a big change in some corresponding network design parameter (size of the network, etc.), isn’t a good reason to break up a flooding domain. Rather, it’s a good reason to go find out why the SPF run time changed, which means a good session of troubleshooting what’s probably an esoteric problem someplace.
Assume, however, that we’re not talking about a big jump. Rather, the SPF run time has been increasing over time, or you’re just looking at a particular network without any past history. My rule of thumb is to start really asking questions when the SPF run time gets to around 100ms. I don’t know where that number came from—it’s a “seat of the pants thing,” I suppose. Most networks today seem to run SPF in less than 10ms, though I’ve seen a few that Continue reading
Embracing containers, open source, and hybrid clouds all at once.
On today's Datanauts episode we talk about the VCDX, the highest certification available from VMware. Chris Wahl, who has two, shares his experiences on preparation and taking the exam.
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On today's Datanauts episode we talk about the VCDX, the highest certification available from VMware. Chris Wahl, who has two, shares his experiences on preparation and taking the exam.
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Extending open hardware all the way to access points.
Little security company has been latching onto some big names.
Steve Kerr, head coach of the record setting Golden State Warriors (my local Bay Area NBA basketball team), has this to say about what the team needs to do to get back on track (paraphrased):
What we have to get back to is simple, simple, simple. That's good enough. The simple leads to the spectacular. You can't try the spectacular without doing the simple first. Make the simple pass. Our guys are trying to make the spectacular plays when we just have to make the easy ones. If we don't get that cleaned up we're in big trouble.
If you play the software game, doesn't this resonate somewhere deep down in your git repository?
If you don't like basketball or despise sports metaphors this is a good place to stop reading. The idea that "The simple leads to the spectacular" is probably the best TLDR of Keep it Simple Stupid I've ever heard.
Software development is fundamentally a team sport. It usually takes a while for this lesson to pound itself into the typical lone wolf developer brain. After experiencing a stack of failed projects I know it took an embarrassingly long time for me to Continue reading