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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 / Containers / Networking / Sponsored

Four Questions to Ask at HPE Discover

25 Nov 2015 6:32am, by Scott M. Fulton III

Kubernetes / Microservices / Networking

Red Hat OpenShift 3.1 Opens the Door for Both .NET and JBoss Middleware

11 Nov 2015 8:18am, by Scott M. Fulton III

Microservices / Networking

Baker Street: Avoiding Bottlenecks with a Client-Side Load Balancer for Microservices

2 Oct 2015 7:52am, by Richard Li

Networking

VMware’s Appenzeller: Hypervisors Close the Container Security Gap

16 Sep 2015 4:43pm, by Scott M. Fulton III

API Management / Cloud Services / Containers / Networking / Open Source

New Linux Collaborative Projects: Open Mainframes, Universal IO and Bare Metal Storage

17 Aug 2015 6:48am, by Susan Hall

Cloud Native / Containers / Networking

New Docker Network Promises Protocol for Linking Containers

22 Jun 2015 12:04pm, by Scott M. Fulton III

Cloud Native / Networking

OpenDaylight is One of the Best Controllers for OpenStack — Here’s How to Implement It

28 May 2015 3:20pm, by Sridhar Rao

Cloud Native / Networking

SDN’s Scale Out Effect on OpenStack Neutron

18 May 2015 1:57pm, by Sridhar Rao

Development / Networking / Open Source

SDN Series Part Eight: Comparison Of Open Source SDN Controllers

31 Mar 2015 5:00am, by Sridhar Rao

Networking

Software-Defined Storage with an Understandable Interface, the Ceph Way, Part Three

23 Mar 2015 9:35am, by Pushpesh Sharma

Containers / Networking

Docker Acquires SDN Technology Startup SocketPlane.io

4 Mar 2015 6:01am, by Scott M. Fulton III

Networking

SDN Series Part Seven: ONOS

3 Mar 2015 11:52am, by Sridhar Rao

Networking

Writing OpenDaylight Applications

2 Feb 2015 11:34am, by Sridhar Rao

Cloud Native / Containers / Kubernetes / Networking / Serverless

Docker, Density, Data Gravity and the New Complexity of SDN

30 Jan 2015 6:52am, by Luke Lefler

Containers / Networking

SDN, Docker and the Real Changes Ahead

29 Jan 2015 8:34am, by Alex Williams

Networking

The Reality of the Network: It Should Be About the Software

21 Jan 2015 9:03am, by Alex Williams

Networking

SDN Series Part Six: OpenDaylight, the Most Documented Controller

20 Jan 2015 1:34pm, by Sridhar Rao

Networking

SDN Series Part Five: Floodlight, an OpenFlow Controller

6 Jan 2015 9:02am, by Sridhar Rao

Networking

SDN Series Part Four: Ryu, a Rich-Featured Open Source SDN Controller Supported by NTT Labs

23 Dec 2014 1:13pm, by Sridhar Rao

Networking

SDN Series Part Three: NOX, the Original OpenFlow Controller

15 Dec 2014 3:41pm, by Sridhar Rao

Development / Networking / Open Source

SDN Series Part Two: Trema, a Framework for Developing OpenFlow Controllers in Ruby and C

8 Dec 2014 11:22am, by Sridhar Rao

Development / Networking / Open Source

SDN Series Part One: Defining Software Defined Networking

1 Dec 2014 1:39pm, by Sridhar Rao

Containers / Networking

SDN and Dockerfiles for Clocker, the Docker Cloud Maker

15 Oct 2014 8:18am, by Andrew Donald Kennedy

API Management / Containers / DevOps / Kubernetes / Networking / Security / Sponsored

Defining Orchestration and Drinking The Docker Kool-Aid at IDF

15 Sep 2014 1:46pm, by Alex Williams

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