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How to Run HAProxy with Docker

Can you run HAProxy as a Docker container? Yes! Did you even need to ask? Docker is ubiquitous these days and you’ll find that many applications have been Docker-ized; the HAProxy load balancer is no exception. Pardon the cliché, but HAProxy was born for this. As a standalone service that runs on Linux, porting it to Docker certainly seemed natural. Why would you want to run your load balancer inside of a Docker container? Are their performance penalties when doing so?

How we keep N-central updated and secure

Following the security issues in the MSP market over the past 24 months, our customers, who are understandably concerned, have been asking what we do to keep the N-central® appliance (hosted or on-premises) updated and secure for them. I will do my best in this short article to outline how our engineering team keeps up with security. Please note this is valid as of the time of writing, but can change at any point.

INFRA:HALT 14 New Security Vulnerabilities Found in NicheStack

NicheStack is a TCP/IP network stack commonly used in millions of Operational Technology (OT) devices around the world, including in critical infrastructure such as manufacturing plants, power generation/transmission/distribution, water treatment, and more. JFrog’s security research team (formerly Vdoo), together with Forescout Research Labs, recently discovered 14 new security vulnerabilities affecting the NicheStack TCP/IP stack.

Baystate Health Employs DX NetOps to Manage Pandemic-Related Demand and Ensure 100% Network Availability

As we all know, the pandemic changed everything, from the way we shopped to the way we received healthcare. It introduced a whole new way to interact with healthcare professionals for yearly check-ups, consultations, and more. The pandemic also put the network in the spotlight as a critical method to deliver reliable applications experiences. All, if not most medical professionals used the telehealth application as one of the only ways to provide quality patient care.

The NetOps Expert - Episode 2: DX NetOps Expands Observability for Even More SDx Technologies

In this episode of The NetOps Expert, Broadcom’s Sarbdeep Singh and Jeremy Rossbach discuss and demo the latest DX NetOps 21.2 release enhancements to software-defined network technology monitoring for VMware SD-WAN by VeloCloud, Cisco Meraki cloud-based LAN and WiFi and Nokia Nuage software-defined data center.