I expect to hear a lot about the “wonderful” idea of moving running VMs 100 msec away (across the continent) in the upcoming weeks. I would recommend you read a few of my older blog posts before considering it… and don’t waste time trying to persuade the true believers with technical arguments – talk with whoever will foot the bill or walk away.
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In this series of posts we’re going to tackle deploying a Kubernetes cluster. Kubernetes is the open source container cluster manager that Google released some time ago. In short, it’s a way to treat a large number of hosts as single compute instance that you can deploy containers against. While the system itself is pretty straight forward to use, the install and initial configuration can be a little bit daunting if you’ve never done it before. The other reason I’m writing this is because I had a hard time finding all of the pieces to build a bare metal kubernetes cluster. Most of the other blogs you’ll read use some mix of an overlay (Weave or Flannel) so I wanted to document a build that used bare metal hosts along with non-overlay networking.
In this first post we’ll deal with getting things running. This includes downloading the actual code from github, building it, deploying it to your machines, and configuring the services. In the following posts we’ll actually start deploying pods (we’ll talk about what those are later on), discuss the deployment model, and dig into how Kubernetes handles container networking. That Continue reading
We are happy to announce that we’ve recently completed a brand new CCIE Data Center Written Exam Video on Demand. In this coursework, you’ll immerse yourself in each technology your instructor, Jason Lunde CCIE #29431 x2 (R&S and Data Center) presents. Jason will also dissect each technology in a manner in which you will walk away with a complete understanding. Included in the coursework is close to 18 hours of lectures, white boards, and configuration topics!
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Below, you will find the complete outline of our latest Video on Demand course! We’re quite confident that you won’t find a more thorough, up-to-date product on the market!
This is the third and final article in a series focusing on seeing which configuration methods are fastest or slowest in the CCIE wireless lab. The idea is to test each method under a variety of likely configuration scenarios that you would experience in the real lab and see how things stack up.
Check out the supporting Speed Test video playlist on our YouTube channel.
This article focuses on autonomous APs. I set up 3 different scenarios, as listed below:
If you want to watch the actual configurations, you can check out the companion video to this article over in our YouTube channel. It shows how I arrived at the configuration speeds and the methods that I used. You may be able to pick up a few tips or tricks for faster configurations by watching how I do things.
For this test, had to configure local RADIUS with a network device and user account, then configure AAP1 as a WDS with associated authentication methods. Finally, I registered both AAP1 and AAP2 Continue reading
Ethernet 2.0
The title above may seem a little odd given Ethernet’s long and healthy life. Keeping conversation to more recent Ethernet standards (10/100/1000/10000/40000/100000 Mbps) the transmission technology and encoding standards have come a very long way for Ethernet. I remember when 100Mbps ports were the absolute norm and when 1Gbps ports were spared for very special (high paying) customers often on a single line card on a router!!! A router!!!
Wind the clock forward about ten years and where are we? 10Gbps access ports to servers, 40Gbps uplink ports from top of rack switching and 1Gbps ports to wireless access points, vending machines and home devices such as printers and coffee machines. Wireless technology is flourishing and with the advent of 802.11ac (Gigabit wireless) the access layer is seeing rolling upgrades.
So if we imagine our access tier is formed of 1Gbps access ports to wireless access points, multiple 10Gbps uplinks often in a multi-chassis Ethernet LAG (MLAG/MEC/vPC/) bundle and core speeds at least at multiple 10Gbps if not 40Gbps speeds, what happens when wireless plays catch up? Introducing The 802.11ac Wave 2 standard which sees speeds that could exceed 6.8 Gbps. This unbelievable wireless speed Continue reading
Summary of a presentation at FOSDEM about systemd is very interesting. Lots of improvements and practical changes from what I can see that would Linux more usable and viable. But this caught my eye about replacing syslog with HTTP: journald-remoting: the binary logger now has remote support (aka: remoting) via HTTP (instead of the syslog […]
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For best article visual quality, open Eycalyptus – cloud introduction and auto-scaling tutorial directly at NetworkGeekStuff.
In this article, I will show how to do a very simple auto-scaling system on eucalyptus cloud using the wonderful eucalyptus fast start image. Afterwards you will appreciate how easy and configurable the Eucalyptus cloud is in regards to configuring customization scripts on systems that are booted dynamically inside auto-scaling triggers (like low CPU, RAM, etc… ).
A little history, last year (2014), HP has requisitioned a company called Eucalyptus, what I must admit surprised me after spending so much time with OpenStack. So I tried to get an idea why this move has happened and what are the main differences that immediately come to mind to compare these two.
So let me went with you on the first example exposure to Eucalyptus.
… demo experience1) Have a cloud system with capability to deploy a server quickly
2) Test basic systems like load-balancing
3) Check the network forwarding inside the cloud
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I’m still convinced that architectures with centralized control planes (and that includes solutions relying on OpenFlow controllers) cannot scale. On the other hand, Big Switch Networks is shipping Big Cloud Fabric, and they claim they solved the problem. Obviously I wanted to figure out what’s going on and Andy Shaw and Rob Sherwood were kind enough to explain the interesting details of their solution.
Long story short: Big Switch Networks significantly extended OpenFlow.
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The problem with obtaining certifications is that you need to renew them. CCIE is no different – I first passed the lab in September 2012, and I was overdue for renewing it. I’m pleased to report that I have now done that, and it is now current until September 2016. Here’s some of my impressions of the 400-101 exam.
I had planned on using the CCDE written exam to renew my R&S CCIE, and then decide if I would go on to attempt the CCDE practical exam. But it seems that the CCDE exam writers and I just don’t share the same mindset. I tried, but it wasn’t working for me, and I wasn’t making progress. So I went back to R&S for my re-cert.
I originally passed version 4, exam number 350-101. This has been updated to version 5. The written exam is now 400-101. Of course, this doesn’t mean that everything changes. Core L2 & L3 protocols don’t change that much. BGP, OSPF and EIGRP and still BGP, OSPF and EIGRP.
There are some key changes though, such as:
A few days ago I completed the last chapter in the Data Center Design Case Studies book: building disaster recovery and active-active data centers. It focuses on application behavior and business needs, not on the underlying technologies; the networking technology part tends to be way easier to solve than the oft-ignored application-level challenges.
I was lucky enough to attend the Powering the Cloud Conference in October last year. While I was there I say down with Federica Monsone from A3 Communications to talk about the role of PR, Marketing and Social media. While we poke fun at marketing it is a deadly serious business. We need our vendors […]
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