Who have thought Microsoft would be the leader in bringing Linux to the desktop! (with a little help from Google) - read on…

Microsoft Build 2019

  • Watch “The new Windows subsystem for Linux architecture: a deep dive - BRK3068” on YouTube - 58 mins
  • Watch “Windows Terminal: Building a better command line experience for developers - BRK3069” on YouTube
  • Watch “Inside Azure datacenter architecture with Mark Russinovich - BRK3060” on YouTube - impressive overview - 58 mins
  • Watch “Visual Studio Code Tips and Tricks – now with… (join us to find out) - BRK3022” on YouTube - 1 hr

Linux

  • Microsoft Put a Real Linux Kernel Inside Windows 10 - OMG! Ubuntu!
  • Google helping out with the Linux desktop push as well! All Chromebooks will also be Linux laptops going forward - ZDNet
  • NeoFetch — See System Information from the Command Line on Linux - OMG! Ubuntu!
  • Phil Hagen’s Scratch Pad - iptables Processing Flowchart
  • How to manage multiple SSH keys - Opensource.com
  • How To List and Delete Iptables Firewall Rules - DigitalOcean
  • explainshell.com online lookup - match command-line arguments to their help text
  • Pengwin: A Linux specifically for Windows Subsystem for Linux - ZDNet
  • Vi Is Good For Beginners - Packet Pushers
  • HTTP Prompt - An Interactive Command Line HTTP Client
  • Linux Cheat Sheet PNG file
  • Linux BASH Shell Script Basics Part 1
  • 25 basic Linux terminal commands to remember

Docker & Containers

  • Alpine Linux Docker images ship a root account with no password - ZDNet
  • The top two most popular Docker base images each have over 500 vulnerabilities
  • Which nicely leads onto….10 Docker Image Security Best Practices
  • Kubernetes basic glossary - Kamil Lelonek - programming blog
  • Immersive terminal interface for managing docker containers and services dockly/README.md
  • A crash course to the most important Docker concepts and their commands - DEV Community
  • Watch “DrupalCon Seattle 2019 - Everything I know about Kubernetes I learned from a cluster of Raspberry Pis” on YouTube - 31 mins
  • Watch “Supercharged Docker with Docker Compose” on YouTube - 12 mins
  • Running Kubernetes locally on Linux with Minikube - now with Kubernetes 1.14 support - Kubernetes
  • Getting started with kubernetes using Ansible and Terraform

Labs

Juniper

Certification and Careers

Cisco

Data Centre & Whitebox

Service Provider

Security

Tools and Testing

Automation and Configuration Management

Programmability

  • The DevOps Chronicles part 1 - Why I’m studying python for 5 hours a week - densemode.com
  • Watch “Managing Junos Devices Using REST API” on YouTube - 9 mins
  • How To Port Python 2 Code to Python 3
  • Jupyter Docker Stacks — docker-stacks latest documentation - Jupyter Docker Stacks are a set of ready-to-run Docker images containing Jupyter applications and interactive computing tools.

SDN and SD-WAN

  • Faucet - The open source SDN Controller for production networks - but with limited hardware support
  • Unfortunately, Seeing Isn’t Always Believing With Meraki Network Topology View - wirednot

Cloud

  • WikiLeaks - Amazon Atlas - out of date (2015) leaked dump of Amazon data centre locations
  • AWS Global Cloud Infrastructure - the up to date but with ‘less detail’ and much prettier
  • AWS VGW (Virtual Private Gateway) vs DGW (Direct Connect Gateway) vs TGW (Transit Gateway) - Megaport Networks
  • Jaeger - open source, end-to-end distributed tracing
  • AWS Well-Architected Tool - Amazon Web Services
  • Watch “UKNOF43 - Office 365 Deployment - How NOT to do it” on YouTube - 17 mins
  • Lessons Learned in Cloud Networking - AWS vs Azure - Daniels Networking Blog
  • Building a Reliable Serverless Application in a Weekend
  • Cloud Irregular: IAM Is The Real Cloud Lock-In - Forrest Brazeal
  • Building Repeatable Infrastructure with Terraform and Ansible on AWS
  • 5 “Aha!” moments with the Google Cloud Platform – Google Developers – Medium
  • Watch “How to Build Reusable, Composable, Battle tested Terraform Modules” on YouTube - 39 mins

Design

Failure