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Measuring Network Bandwidth using Iperf and Docker

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At the heart of any network engineer’s toolkit, are applications that let you peer into the network for performance, congestion and capacity planning. One of the thoroughbreds in the open source network tools collection is iperf. Iperf has been around for a long time. The good folks at ESnet updated the original iperf with new features and what not and …

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Configuring Macvlan and Ipvlan Linux Networking

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Macvlan and Ipvlan are both Linux type networking interfaces that are both supported by the Linux kernel. They are unique for a few different reasons. One thing that makes them both very attractive is they do not use bridges in their implementation and natively namespace aware. It solves some painful problems such as getting access to a gateway from a …

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Docker on Google Compute Engine Using Docker Machine

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Next up in Using Docker Machine across private and public clouds, is Google Compute Engine (GCE). As with the other posts, a diagram of how I view the importance of a Docker Machine abstraction. First, if you don’t already have an account you can get $300 credit expiring after 60-days towards Google GCE that we will use as Docker hosts …

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Building Network Tools using Docker

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I am going to start pushing out an app every month that fixes some problem in networking. In this case I hacked it up over the past couple of weekends, but other times it will just be me using someones open source awesomeness and demoing it. First some thoughts on where we are in the wild world of networking to …

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Running Docker Machine on Digital Ocean

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Continuing the series on cloud provider examples using Docker machine, up next is Digital Ocean. As with the other posts here is a diagram of how I view Docker Machine usage. For those who don’t have an account already, you can sign get $10 credit with the following link. When you sign up it requires a credit card that won’t …

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10 Examples of how to get Docker Container IP Address

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One thing that is so much fun about the need virtualization paradigm we are heading towards is that in the age of “software defined”, the flexibility of how to do things with infra are much more like programming then working with highly opinionated traditional infrastructure. Along that thread, here are 10 different ways to get a container or docker-machine address …

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Running Docker Machine on Rackspace Public Cloud

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Next up I am giving Docker Machine on Rackspace public cloud a whirl. If you don’t have an account and want to check it out take a look at their developer+ credit. Here is a gif diagram (I’m addicted to making gifs atm, sometimes not even cats doing cute fluffy cat stuff like here) overviewing Docker Machine. To get installed …

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Docker Machine Provisioning on AWS

Next up in the docker machine series of integration posts is spinning up some cloud resources on Amazon EC2. The model is the same as previous docker machine posts, boot a VM running as a Docker host, add your cloud credentials for the provider and use your regular docker client commands on the remote Docker host in Amazon. The docker …

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