Devops for Networking Forum in Santa Clara
Normally, I would be writing this a few weeks ago, but sometimes the world just takes the luxury of time away from you. In this case, I couldn’t be happier though as I’m about to part of something that I believe is going to be really really amazing. This event is really a testimony to Brent Salisbury and John Willis’s commitment to community and their relentless pursuit of trying to evolve the whole industry, bringing along as many of the friends they’ve made along the way as possible.
Given the speaker list, I don’t believe there’s been any event in recent ( or long term!) memory that has such an amazing list of speakers. The most amazing part is that this event was really put together in the last month!!!!
If you’re in the bay area, you should definitely be there. If you’re not in the area, you should buy a plane ticket as you might not ever get a chance like this again.
DevOps Forum for Networking
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previously known as DevOps4Networks is an event started in 2014 by John Willis and Brent Salisbury to begin a discussion on what Devops Continue reading
CCDE – Inter AS L3 VPNs
Introduction
Sometimes a customer needs a L3 VPN between two locations where the same SP is not present. This can be on a national or international basis. It would be possible to buy an Internet circuit and run an overlay such as DMVPN but what if the customer wants to buy a MPLS VPN circuit?
The customer could buy a VPN from SP1 in location1 and a VPN from SP2 in location2. The two SPs would then have to exchange traffic somehow to make the customer circuit end to end. The concept is shown in the following topology.
The customer connects to the PE of each of the SPs. The SPs need to interconnect at some common point, either through a public peering place such as an IX or with an private interconnect at a common location. The routers that connect to each other are called autonomous system border routers (ASBR). There are three main options and a fourth option which combines two of the others.
Inter-AS Option A
Option A is the most simple of the options to interconnect the ASBRs. Each customer VRF requires either a physical interface or more likely a subinterface. Option A has Continue reading
Video: What’s New in Docker Swarm 1.1
Last week we released our Docker Datacenter solution to the world, bringing container management and deployment to the enterprise with an on-premises Containers-as-a-Service platform. Universal Control Plane, part of the Docker Datacenter solution, enables IT operations teams to manage and … ContinuedSSL ‘DROWNs’ In Yet Another Security Flaw
Millions of SSL servers are vulnerable to newly discovered attack that breaks encryption and exposes information.
Musing: First Class Assets, Second Rate Staff
Takeaway: DevOps is a first rate staff, second class assets. Helluva difference from Enterprise IT.
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Datanauts 025: Moving To The Cloud: IaaS Lessons Learned
The Datanauts talk pros and cons of adopting IaaS with guest Steve Winwood, a technical architect with direct experience in IaaS usage. We talk about when IaaS makes sense vs. building your own infrastructure, considerations for choosing a provider, how cloud app deployment is different, how to understand and manage costs, and more.
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Datanauts 025: Moving To The Cloud: IaaS Lessons Learned
The Datanauts talk pros and cons of adopting IaaS with guest Steve Winwood, a technical architect with direct experience in IaaS usage. We talk about when IaaS makes sense vs. building your own infrastructure, considerations for choosing a provider, how cloud app deployment is different, how to understand and manage costs, and more.
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SDN: Does Anybody Really Know What It Is?
Software-defined networking can mean many things, depending on your view.
You Want Your Network to Be like Google’s? Really?
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During one of my SDN workshops one of the attendees working for a mid-sized European ISP asked me this question:
Our management tells us we should build our network like Google does, including building our own switches. Where should we start?
The only answer I could give him was “You don’t have a chance.”
Read more ...Estimating the Revenue of a Russian DDoS Booter
At the end of 2014, ASERT presented research where we mapped some DDoS booter advertisements on Russian language forums to their behind-the-scenes DDoS botnet infrastructures. For this post, we will follow up on that research a bit by looking at another one of these mappings and trying to estimate the revenue generated by the DDoS […]Estimating the Revenue of a Russian DDoS Booter
At the end of 2014, ASERT presented research where we mapped some DDoS booter advertisements on Russian language forums to their behind-the-scenes DDoS botnet infrastructures. For this post, we will follow up on that research a bit by looking at another one of these mappings and trying to estimate the revenue generated by the DDoS […]SDxCentral’s Top 10 Articles — February 2016
VMware, Cisco, and Verizon make the top 3.
From Multi-Vendor To Single-Vendor
Careers take a funny turn a lot of times. Opportunities come up that you weren’t expecting and the timing is never as perfect as you want it to be. At least, that is how it has always been with me. I’ve learned though, that sometimes the best thing for you is to charge full speed ahead through the door, roll the dice, and take your chances. That is where I find myself right now. Having accepted an offer from Aerohive Networks to serve in a pre-sales engineering role in my local area, I am leaving behind a job and a company that I have enjoyed tremendously. Yes, there were times when I had to be talked off the ledge and keep on going. I think that comes with most jobs though. Overall, it has been a very rewarding almost 5 years working for a value added reseller(VAR) and I will miss it greatly.
In the span of a few months, I had to decide to give up the following:
1. Multi-vendor implementations and support.
2. Studying for the CCIE Wireless lab exam with 1 failed lab attempt already under my belt.
3. Involvement with other vendors courtesy of social media(blogging, Continue reading
Netronome Brings Virtual Networking Hardware Offload To Busy CPUs
Netronome Agilio is a niche play for customers with specific compute requirements centered around OVS and, soon, Juniper Contrail. The majority of data center owners are likely to find that they just don't have the problems that Netronome is solving, but those that do will be pleased that Netronome exists.
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Netronome Brings Virtual Networking Hardware Offload To Busy CPUs
Netronome Agilio is a niche play for customers with specific compute requirements centered around OVS and, soon, Juniper Contrail. The majority of data center owners are likely to find that they just don't have the problems that Netronome is solving, but those that do will be pleased that Netronome exists.
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