Cloud Infrastructure

Software-Defined Distributed Storage for Kubernetes with Ceph

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turned_in_notCeph, Cloud Storage, Clustered Filesystem, Container Orchestration, Encryption At-Rest, Kubernetes, NetApp ONTAP, NextCloud, NFS, Object Storage, Persistent Storage
Clustered filesystems are an essential component of scale-out, distributed systems, such as applications hosted on a Kubernetes cluster. They provide storage volumes which can be written to by multiple pods across multiple Kubernetes nodes simultaneously. Even if a storage device…
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OPNsense Open Source Firewall vs. Cloudflare Managed WAF

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turned_in_notCloud Firewalls, CloudFlare, Cybersecurity, DDoS Protection, IDS/IPS, ModSecurity, NAXSI, OPNsense, pfSense Alternative, SecOps, Suricata, Web Application Firewall
Since both are labelled as “firewall” products, a managed WAF like Cloudflare is often compared to a stateful firewall like OPNsense – which also has WAF capabilities, and much more. This comparison is not really apples-to-apples, especially since OPNsense has…
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Kuberenetes RWX persistent volumes with Rook Ceph storage orchestrator

Clustered ReadWriteMany Filesystems for Kubernetes Persistent Volumes

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Many applications you might wish to deploy on a Kubernetes cluster require persistent storage in the form of PVCs (persistent volume claims) and PVs (persistent volumes). As the lifetime of a pod is ephemeral, and app data is not normally…
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OPNsense Open Source Security Appliance for Cloud VPCs & On-Prem

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turned_in_notAWS, BSD, Cloud Firewalls, Cybersecurity, HAProxy, High Availability, ModSecurity, NAXSI, OPNsense, pfSense Alternative, SecOps, Suricata, VPN, Web Application Firewall, WireGuard
Whether you are protecting a traditional corporate network, cloud resources, or increasingly common – both in a hybrid setting, implementing a security appliance at each perimeter is essential to safeguarding your internal & external services and endpoint devices. A network…
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Sovereign Cloud vs. Offshore Hosting – Privacy & Security Benefits

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turned_in_notCloud Firewalls, Cloud Platforms, Cybersecurity, Data Portability, Encryption At-Rest, Open Source, Self Hosted AI, Self-Hosted Apps
The sovereign cloud and offshore hosting are two seemingly opposite concepts that both have an important role in maintaining data protection through data residency. “Data residency” is the legal jurisdiction where the data for your information systems are stored and…
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