Imagine you decided to deploy an SD-WAN (or DMVPN) network and make an Azure region one of the sites in the new network because you already deployed some workloads in that region and would like to replace the VPN connectivity you’re using today with the new shiny expensive gadget.
Everyone told you to deploy two SD-WAN instances in the public cloud virtual network to be redundant, so this is what you deploy:
Imagine you decided to deploy an SD-WAN (or DMVPN) network and make an Azure region one of the sites in the new network because you already deployed some workloads in that region and would like to replace the VPN connectivity you’re using today with the new shiny expensive gadget.
Everyone told you to deploy two SD-WAN instances in the public cloud virtual network to be redundant, so this is what you deploy:
There are a lot of new technologies that are available now or are going to be available shortly that have the potential to radically change the compute, memory, and storage hierarchies in systems. …
Livermore Converges A Slew Of New Ideas For Exascale Storage was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The latest Docker Desktop release, 3.2, includes support for iTerm2 which is a terminal emulator that is highly popular with macOS fans. From the Containers/Apps Dashboard, for a running container, you can click `CLI` to open a terminal and run commands on the container. With this latest release of Docker Desktop, if you have installed iTerm2 on your Mac, the CLI option opens an iTerm2 terminal. Otherwise, it opens the Terminal app on Mac or a Command Prompt on Windows.
Of note, this feature request to support additional terminals started from the Docker public roadmap. Daniel Rodriguez, one of our community members, submitted the request to the public roadmap. 180 people upvoted that request and we added it and prioritized it on our public roadmap.
The public roadmap is our source of truth for community feedback on prioritizing product updates and feature enhancements. Not everything submitted to the public roadmap will end up as a delivered feature, but the support for M1 chipsets, image vulnerability scanning and audit logging – all delivered within the last year – all started as issues submitted via the roadmap.
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Many within the network engineering community have heard of the OSI seven-layer model, and some may have heard of the Recursive Internet Architecture (RINA) model. The truth is, however, that while protocol designers may talk about these things and network designers study them, very few networks today are built using any of these models. What is often used instead is what might be called the Infinitely Layered Functional Indirection (ILFI) model of network engineering. In this model, nothing is solved at a particular layer of the network if it can be moved to another layer, whether successfully or not.
For instance, Ethernet is the physical and data link layer of choice over almost all types of physical medium, including optical and copper. No new type of physical transport layer (other than wireless) can succeed unless if can be described as “Ethernet” in some regard or another, much like almost no new networking software can success unless it has a Command Line Interface (CLI) similar to the one a particular vendor developed some twenty years ago. It’s not that these things are necessarily better, but they are well-known.
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The various life-extension technologies that will keep disk at the forefront of some of the largest storage installations are working–and keeping disk’s largest consumers, like Dropbox, around for long haul…
When it comes to exascale storage capacity, the national labs have nothing on Dropbox. …
Why Dropbox’s Exascale Strategy Is Long-Term, On-Prem Disk was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
mkdir dataNow start InfluxDB using the pre-built influxdb image:
docker run --rm --name=influxdb -p 8086:8086 \
-v $PWD/data:/var/lib/influxdb2 influxdb:alpine \
--nats-max-payload-bytes=10000000
Note: sFlow-RT is collecting metrics for all the sFlow agents embedded in switches, routers, and servers. The default value of nats-max-payload-bytes (1048576) may be too small to hold all the metrics returned when sFlow-RT is queried. The error, nats: maximum payload exceeded, in InfluxDB logs indicates that the limit needs to be increased. In this example, the value has been increased to 10000000.
Now access the InfluxDB web interface at http://localhost:8086/
Nearly a year ago, we announced Cloudflare for Teams, Cloudflare’s platform for securing users, devices, and data. With Cloudflare for Teams, our global network becomes your team’s network, replacing on-premise appliances and security subscriptions with a single solution delivered closer to your users — wherever they work. Cloudflare for Teams centers around two core products: Cloudflare Access and Cloudflare Gateway.
Cloudflare Gateway protects employees from security threats on the Internet and enforces appropriate use policies. We built Gateway to help customers replace the pain of backhauling user traffic through centralized firewalls. With Gateway, users instead connect to one of Cloudflare’s data centers in 200 cities around the world where our network can apply consistent security policies for all of their Internet traffic.
In March 2020, we launched Gateway’s first feature, a secure DNS filtering solution. With Gateway’s DNS filtering, administrators can click a single button to block known threats, like sources of malware or phishing sites. Policies can also be used to block specific risky categories, like gambling or social media. When users request a filtered site, Gateway stops the DNS query from resolving and prevents the device from connecting to a malicious destination or hostname with blocked material.
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It looks like JSON Schema is the new black. Last week I wrote about a new Ansible module using JSON Schema to validate data structures passed to it; a few weeks ago NetworkToCode released Schema Enforcer, a similar CLI tool (which means it’s easy to use it in any CI/CD pipeline).
Here are just a few things Schema Enforcer can do:
It looks like JSON Schema is the new black. Last week I wrote about a new Ansible module using JSON Schema to validate data structures passed to it; a few weeks ago NetworkToCode released Schema Enforcer, a similar CLI tool (which means it’s easy to use it in any CI/CD pipeline).
Here are just a few things Schema Enforcer can do:
A couple of months ago it occurred to me that I’ve been manually tiling my windows. That is, I use all the screen real estate, and don’t have windows overlapping each other.
In various window manages (and on Windows) I have used Super+Left and Super+Right to divide the screen 50/50.
So why am I not running a tiling window manager? That’s literally what they do, and they allow more flexibility in how to tile, without wasting space.
A quick googling says that i3 is what I want. Fast, small, efficient. No bells and whistles.
I used it for a little while, but then because I wanted to make it even harder on myself, err… I mean to join the 21st century, I thought I’d switch from X11 to Wayland, too. Luckily there’s a Wayland Compositor that’s equilavent to the i3 Window Manager called Sway.
It’s great! I knew X11 and Gnome had issues, but I didn’t realize just how much better I feel when I don’t have to deal with their deficiencies.
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