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For cloud native computing, networking is an essential component, a stack of communications software that allows microservices to communicate with one another and with the world at large. The dynamic nature of container-based workloads puts new pressure on the networking layers of this stack, demanding extremely low-latency as well as rapid lookup times to find services.

Those operating Kubernetes workloads can look to an emerging class of software called a service mesh, which takes care of a lot of the issues around service discovery, authentication, and observability. Thus far, Istio — created by Google and IBM in partnership with the Envoy team from Lyft — has proved to be the service mesh most talked about, though Linkerd and even enhanced API Gateways such as Kong or NGINX are being pressed into service mesh duties as well.

The communication protocols themselves must be more nimble too, given the large amount of traffic going back and forth across a microservices architecture. To this end, Google has devised another technology, called gRPC, specifically for low-latency communications. On for connects on the Internet of Things, IBM’s MQTT is proving to be a robust protocol for low-bandwidth devices.

Finally, there are challenges around managing containers themselves. A kernel technology, they must share the Internet Protocol number with their host operating systems. As a result, managing containers must be done either through an overlay network or some other modification.

Cloud Native Ecosystem / Data Science / DevOps Tools / Machine Learning / Networking Software / Software Development

This Week in Scalability: Why Your Work May No Longer Be (Statistically) Significant

5 Aug 2017 3:00am, by Joab Jackson

Kubernetes / Networking Software / Software Development / What Is DevOps? / What’s New in the CI/CD Environment? / Contributed

It’s the End of Network Automation as We Know It (and I Feel Fine)

5 Jul 2017 12:00pm, by James Kelly

Containers / Kubernetes / Networking Software / Software Development

Microsoft Trims Nano Server for Container Work

29 Jun 2017 2:00am, by Mary Branscombe

Cloud Services / IoT edge computing / Machine Learning / Microservices / Networking Software / Software Development

FPGAs and the New Era of Cloud-based ‘Hardware Microservices’

8 Jun 2017 6:00am, by Mary Branscombe

Cloud Native Ecosystem / Cloud Services / Microservices / Networking Software

Juniper Networks: Should Workloads and Infrastructure Be Managed with the Same Platform?

29 May 2017 1:00am, by Scott M. Fulton III

Cloud Native Ecosystem / Containers / Microservices / Networking Software

F5 Networks: Containers Need Both Networking and Orchestration

28 Apr 2017 12:51pm, by Scott M. Fulton III

Cloud Native Ecosystem / Microservices / Networking Software / Service Mesh / Software Development

Linkerd 1.0, a Communications Service Mesh for Cloud-Native Apps

27 Apr 2017 1:00am, by Susan Hall

Containers / Networking Software

Dockercon 2017: How Docker Changed Windows So Windows Could Change Docker

24 Apr 2017 1:00am, by Scott M. Fulton III

Cloud Native Ecosystem / Culture / IoT edge computing / Networking Software / Contributed

Game of Nodes: Network Operators vs. Cloud Operators

12 Apr 2017 6:00am, by Marco Rodrigues

Containers / Networking Software / Storage / What Is DevOps?

Portworx Provides a Container-Level Approach to Managing Stateful Applications

6 Apr 2017 9:12am, by Susan Hall

Containers / Kubernetes / Microservices / Networking Software / Security / Contributed

Automating Kubernetes Cluster Operations with Operators

21 Mar 2017 8:59pm, by Timo Derstappen

Microservices / Networking Software / Software Development / What’s New in the CI/CD Environment? / Contributed

IT Automation Best Practices for Network Engineers and Architects

14 Mar 2017 8:55am, by Eric Anderson

Cloud Native Ecosystem / Containers / Data Science / Kubernetes / Microservices / Networking Software / Contributed

A Hacker’s Guide to Kubernetes Networking

27 Feb 2017 10:33am, by Yaron Haviv

Cloud Native Ecosystem / Microservices / Networking Software

Six Challenges Every Organization Will Face Implementing Microservices

23 Feb 2017 6:00am, by TC Currie

Cloud Native Ecosystem / Data Science / Microservices / Networking Software / Open Source / Software Development

Lyft’s Envoy Proxy Server Helped Move the Company to a Service-Oriented Architecture

21 Feb 2017 9:34am, by TC Currie

Cloud Services / Culture / Data Science / IoT edge computing / Networking Software / What Is DevOps? / Contributed

Content Delivery Networks Move Closer to the Network Edge

9 Jan 2017 9:25am, by Brian Wheeler

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Containers / Kubernetes / Networking Software / Contributed

TNS Analysts Thanksgiving Special: The Evolution of Kubernetes and the Container Ecosystem

24 Nov 2016 5:04am, by Kiran Oliver

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Cloud Native Ecosystem / Networking Software / Sponsored

OPNFV Demonstrates How to Cut the Cord from Proprietary Hardware Designs

21 Nov 2016 9:38am, by Kiran Oliver

Containers / Kubernetes / Networking Software / Open Source / Software Development

Apprenda-led Team Preps Kubernetes to Manage Windows Containers

15 Nov 2016 7:24am, by Joab Jackson

Cloud Native Ecosystem / Containers / Kubernetes / Networking Software / Open Source

Hyper.sh Mixes Containers, Hypervisors, and Something Called ‘Hypernetes’

1 Nov 2016 9:12am, by Scott M. Fulton III

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Cloud Native Ecosystem / Kubernetes / Networking Software / Sponsored

Standardizing Container Networking with the Container Network Interface

25 Oct 2016 10:32am, by Kiran Oliver

Containers / Kubernetes / Networking Software

Three Approaches to Container Networking

30 Sep 2016 7:09am, by Scott M. Fulton III

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Cloud Native Ecosystem / Kubernetes / Networking Software / Open Source / Software Development

The Swinging Pendulum of Container Orchestration

26 Sep 2016 6:58am, by Kiran Oliver

Containers / Networking Software / Observability / Security / Storage / What’s New in the CI/CD Environment?

Containerized Production Environments: Networking, Security, and Storage

22 Sep 2016 1:01pm, by Vivek Juneja

Containers / Kubernetes / Networking Software

The Container Networking Landscape: CNI from CoreOS and CNM from Docker

16 Sep 2016 11:47am, by Lee Calcote

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Containers / Kubernetes / Networking Software

TNS Tutorial Friday: The CoreOS rkt Container Engine, What It Is and How It Compares to Docker

16 Sep 2016 10:39am, by Kiran Oliver

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