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The ALB Ingress Controller Is Now the AWS Load Balancer Controller
AWS has rebranded the Application Load Balancer (ALB) Ingress controller as the AWS Load Balancer Controller, and now includes support for both Application Load Balancers and Network Load Balancers. The public vendor recently announced the renaming and updates to this Load Balancer controller, labeled as a new controller or AWS ALB Ingress Controller v2.
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Q&A with Creator of Envoy and Lyft Engineer Matt Klein
InfoQ caught up with creator of Envoy, engineer at Lyft and self-described plumber, Matt Klein, regarding Envoy ahead of EnvoyCon 2020 on the rapid rise of the technology and community.
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40th Anniversary of The Ethernet
Today marks the 40th anniversary of the creation of The Ethernet, with a readable specification that is still valid today. InfoQ looks back to where it came from, what it powers, and how it's still relevant today.
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Bare-Metal Kubernetes Load Balancer Porter Included in CNCF Landscape
The CNCF has accepted Porter, a load balancer meant for bare-metal Kubernetes clusters, in the CNCF Landscape. Porter uses the Border Gateway Protocol with ECMP to load balance traffic in self-hosted Kubernetes clusters.
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DigitalOcean’s Journey to a Scalable Networking Model Using GoBGP and Open vSwitch
DigitalOcean's network engineering team wrote about their journey in switching from a Layer 2 to a Layer 3 based routing model for traffic to virtual machines in their cloud using Open vSwitch (OVS) and other tools.
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Facebook’s Switch from ntpd to chrony for a More Accurate, Scalable NTP Service
Facebook's engineering team wrote about their approach on how they built a more accurate and scalable Network Time Protocol service by replacing ntpd with chrony and a multi-layered architecture.
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Project OWL Enables Disaster-Relief Solutions Using Wireless Mesh Networks
Backed by IBM and adopted by the Linux Foundation, Project OWL aims to make it possible to build mesh network nodes that are able to reconfigure themselves to avoid prolonged connectivity loss. The project targets scenarios such as natural disasters, where communication links become quickly unavailable or unreliable.
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Microsoft Adds Virtual Network Support for Azure Firewall Manager, Enables Centralized Management
In a recent blog post, Microsoft announced Azure Firewall Manager now supports virtual networks. This new capability allows organizations to centrally manage security policies and route management for cloud-based security perimeters based on two network architectures, including secured virtual hub and hub virtual network.
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High Availability for Self-Managed Kubernetes Clusters at DT One
The engineering team at DT One, a global provider of mobile top-up and reward solutions, wrote about how they implemented IP failover-based high availability for their self-managed Kubernetes cluster ingress on Hetzner’s hosting platform.
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Kubernetes the Very Hard Way with Large Clusters at Datadog
Laurent Bernaille from Datadog talked at the Velocity conference in Berlin about the challenges of operating large self-managed Kubernetes clusters. Bernaille focused on how to configure resilient and scalable control planes, why and how to rotate certificates frequently, and the need for using networking plugins for efficient communication in Kubernetes.
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CloudFlare Releases Open Source Implementation of Network Time Security Protocol
CloudFlare announced the first major release of their implementation of the Network Time Security (NTS) protocol. This builds on their previous release of time.cloudflare.com, their free time service that supports both Network Time Protocol (NTP) and NTS.
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Extend Azure PaaS Resources to Your Network Using Azure Private Link
In a recent blog post, Microsoft announced a new preview service, called Azure Private Link, which provides organizations the ability to connect to Azure Platform as a Service (PaaS) offerings, or their own services, using a private IP address. Azure Private Link connections travel over Microsoft’s backbone network and avoid exposure from the public internet.
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How Chirp Audio QR Codes Went to the Moon and Back
Chirp uses audio to send and receive data using only a device's speaker and microphone. Recently, Chirp had a chance to test their technology by sending signals to the Moon. InfoQ has spoken with Daniel Jones, chief technology officer at Chirp, to learn more about Chirp codes.
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Cloudflare Releases Free Time Service That Supports NTP and NTS
Cloudflare released time.cloudflare.com, their free time service that supports both NTP (Network Time Protocol) and the emerging NTS (Network Time Security). NTP is an Internet protocol for synchronizing time between remote computer systems. Cloudflare’s new service provides NTP services over their anycast network of over 180 locations worldwide.
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Benefits of Microsoft’s New Versions of Azure Application Gateway and the Web Application Firewall
In a recent blog post, Microsoft discusses the benefits of the generally available releases of Azure Application Gateway V2 Standard SKU and Web Application Firewall (WAF) V2 SKU's. Microsoft fully supports them with a 99.95% SLA, significant improvements and capabilities.