Given that Kubernetes is a primary focus of my day-to-day work, I spend a fair amount of time in the Kubernetes Slack community, trying to answer questions from users and generally be helpful. Recently, someone asked about assigning node labels…
Nakivo Backup & Replication: store backups in AWS S3 To fulfill the 3-2-1 backup rule, Nakivo Backup and Replication provides the support for cloud object storage in order to save backups in AWS S3. Feature already available from previous version,…
When adding storage to a Linux server, system administrators often use commands like pvcreate, vgcreate, lvcreate, and mkfs to integrate the new storage into the system. Stratis is a command-line tool designed to make managing storage much simpler. It creates, modifies,…
Nearly five years ago, when I was in grad school, I stumbled across the paper Collaboration in the open-source arena: The WebKit case when trying to figure out what I would do for a course project in network theory (i.e. graph…
So you have decided to give the Linux operating system a try. You have heard it is a good stable operating system with lots of free software and you are ready to give it a shot. It is downloadable for…
This has been called the age of DevOps, and operating systems seem to be getting a little bit less attention than tools are. However, this doesn’t mean that there has been no innovation in operating systems. [Edit: The diversity of…
Cluster API is a topic I’ve discussed here in a number of posts. If you’re not already familiar with Cluster API (also known as CAPI), I’d encourage you to check out my introductory post on Cluster API first; you can…
Welcome to Technology Short Take #134! I’m publishing a bit early this time due to the Thanksgiving holiday in the US. So, for all my US readers, here’s some content to peruse while enjoying some turkey (or whatever you’re having…
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Ever since Douglas Engelbart flipped over a trackball and discovered a mouse, our interactions with computers have shifted from linguistics to hieroglyphics. That is, instead of typing commands at a prompt in what we now call a Command Line Interface…
Veeam v11: Continuous Data Protection (CDP) Continuous Data Protection (CDP) is a new feature provided by the upcoming Veeam VBR v11 mainly addressed for Tier-1 applications that cannot deal with data loss. Announced for a long time, the CDP technology…
Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) technology enables remote users to access their desktop from anywhere using an internet connection. This technology has been around for a couple of decades but never received wide-scale corporate acceptance. Covid-19 has put the spotlight back…
StarWind Virtual SAN Free StarWind Virtual SAN Free is the free version of StarWind VSAN, the popular software solution that eliminates any need for a SAN or NAS or other physical shared storage. Product mainly oriented to SMBs and ROBOs, StarWind VSAN…
by Ramon Persaud I’ve been playing around with the Raspberry Pi Zero W lately and having so much fun on the command line. For those uninitiated it’s a tiny Arm computer running Raspbian, a derivative of Debian. It has a…
Updated: 11.19.2020 What is IaaS? Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) allows you to rent computing resources from a third party that you then access through the web. You essentially outsource having to set up or manage up racks, servers, storage,…