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One of the first hands-on exercises in our Networking in Public Cloud Deployments asks the attendees to automate something. They can choose the cloud provider they want to work with and the automation tool they prefer… but whatever they do has to be automated.
Most solutions include a simple CloudFormation, Azure Resource Manager, or Terraform template with a line or two of README.MD, but Eric Auerswald totally astonished me with a detailed and precise writeup. Enjoy!
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Today, we’re proud to announce the new MANRS Content Delivery Network (CDN) and Cloud Programme. This new program broadens support for the primary objective of MANRS – to implement crucial fixes needed to eliminate the most common threats to the Internet’s routing system.
The founding participants are: Akamai, Amazon Web Services, Azion, Cloudflare, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and Netflix.
Now, let’s back up and explain how we got here.
What Is MANRS?
Mutually Agreed Norms for Routing Security (MANRS) is a global initiative, supported by the Internet Society, that requires collaboration among participants and shared responsibility for the global Internet routing system. It’s a community of security-minded organizations committed to making routing infrastructure more robust and secure.
Originally designed by and for network operators, the initiative has already been extended once to address the unique needs and concerns of Internet Exchange Points. These two facets of MANRS complement each other – the first secures customer-provider interconnections, while the second creates a safe public peering environment.
How Do CDNs and Cloud Providers Help?
CDNs are a geographically distributed group of servers that work together to provide fast delivery of Internet content across the globe, and today the majority of web traffic Continue reading
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As more employees work from home, organizations are struggling with the rollout and support of remote work forces. On today's Tech Bytes podcast we walk through the four phases of scaling up remote workers with our sponsor, Viavi Solutions. Viavi provides network performance monitoring and visibility products. Our guest is Bill Proctor, Customer Success Manager at Viavi.
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In a previous blog post I introduced Automation Webhooks and their uses with Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) workflows and Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform. In this blog post, I’ll cover how those features can be applied to creating GitOps pipelines, a particular workflow gaining popularity in the cloud-native space, using Ansible and the unique benefits utilizing Ansible provides.
Like so many terms that evolve and emerge from the insights and practices of what came before it, finding a definitive meaning to the term “GitOps” is a bit elusive.
GitOps is a workflow whose conceptual roots started with Martin Fowler’s comprehensive Continuous Integration overview in 2006 and descends from Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), DevOps culture and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) patterns. What makes it unique is that GitOps is a prescriptive style of Infrastructure as Code based on the experience and wisdom of what works in deploying and managing large, sophisticated, distributed and cloud-native systems. So you can implement git-centric workflows where you treat infrastructure like it is code, but it doesn’t mean it’s GitOps.
The term GitOps was coined by Alexis Richardson, CEO and Founder of Weaveworks, so a lot of how I’m going to define Continue reading
NYC Mesh connects people to “critical Internet lifeline” during COVID-19 pandemic
As COVID-19 spreads across the globe, cities are slowing to a halt and millions of people are self-isolating to help slow the spread of the virus.
The Internet has never been more important. It is a critical for up-to-date health information, a necessity for students to continue their education while at home and for their parent to continue working, enables access to government programs and supports like unemployment insurance, and can help alleviate the effects of social isolation.
Yet, in New York City alone, 1.5 million people don’t have access from their homes or mobile devices, largely due to high costs of connectivity.
A group of volunteers is working around the clock to change that, one antenna at a time.
NYC Mesh, a community network supported by the Internet Society, kicked into high gear earlier this month in advance of the pandemic, getting as many people connected as possible while it was still safe to do so, prioritizing those with no other Internet access. The ramp up –going from a couple of installs a week to one or more a day – was “a mad rush of Continue reading
Networked virus: U.S. Senator Mark Warner has raised concerns about cyberattacks targeting Internet connectivity while many people are working from home due to the COVID-19 outbreak, The Hill reports. Warner, vice chairman on the Senate Intelligence Committee, wrote letters to network device vendors asking that they pump up the security of their products.
Sharing the WiFi: The U.S. Federal Communications Commission will allow schools and libraries to share their WiFi connections with the surrounding communities during the coronavirus pandemic, a change in the normal FCC policy about their WiFi networks, KRCRTV.com reports. Schools and libraries can set their own WiFi-sharing policies, the FCC said. Meanwhile, some libraries want to extend their WiFi networks using bookmobiles, Vice.com says. It’s unclear if FCC rules allow this expansion of service, however.
Tracking you and the virus: Some countries are tracking the coronavirus outbreak by tracking residents’ mobile phones, Science Magazine says. However, tracking phones also raises privacy concerns. “We don’t live in a culture of public trust when it comes to data,” says David Leslie, an ethicist at the Alan Turing Institute. “We live in this age that has been called the age of surveillance capitalism, where … our Continue reading
