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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 Services / Networking / Storage / Sponsored / Contributed

4 Advancements That Led to Decentralized Cloud Storage

6 Jul 2021 7:23am, by JT Olio

Cloud Native / Kubernetes / Networking

Install Calico to Enhance Kubernetes’ Built-in Networking Capability

5 Jul 2021 9:00am, by Jack Wallen

Cloud Native / Networking / Service Mesh

Buoyant Cloud Beta Brings Simplified Linkerd

30 Jun 2021 7:51am, by Mike Melanson

Kubernetes / Networking / Sponsored / Contributed

Lightning-Fast Kubernetes Networking with Calico and VPP

25 Jun 2021 6:06am, by Reza Ramezanpour

Cloud Services / Networking

What Happened to the Internet? Fastly’s Hard Fall and Quick Recovery

10 Jun 2021 8:26am, by Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols

Data / Networking / Security

VMware Redefines Security After a Surge in Attacks

7 Jun 2021 4:42pm, by B. Cameron Gain

Cloud Services / Culture / Networking / Contributed

Birth of the Cloud: A Q&A with Vint Cerf and Linode’s Christopher Aker

3 Jun 2021 6:00am, by Mike Maney

Kubernetes / Networking / Sponsored / Contributed

Calico Integration with WireGuard Using kOps

1 Jun 2021 3:00pm, by Reza Ramezanpour

Networking / Open Source / Sponsored / Contributed

Magma Brings a Systems Approach to Wireless Networking

1 Jun 2021 9:00am, by Bruce Davie

API Management / Networking / Sponsored / Contributed

How We Built an Open Source Drop-In Replacement for gRPC

26 May 2021 11:00am, by JT Olio

Networking / Service Mesh

GRPC Delivers on the Promise of a Proxyless Service Mesh

24 May 2021 2:06pm, by Joab Jackson

Cloud Native / Kubernetes / Networking

VMware’s Antrea Brings Programmable Networks to Kubernetes

24 May 2021 3:00am, by B. Cameron Gain

Cloud Native / Kubernetes / Networking / Sponsored

Upbound Universal Crossplane Wants to Replace Infrastructure as Code

20 May 2021 1:22pm, by Mike Melanson

Kubernetes / Networking / Service Mesh / Contributed

Near Real-Time Kubernetes at Scale: Increasing App Throughput with Linkerd

19 May 2021 10:25am, by Stephen Reardon and Steve Gray

Kubernetes / Networking / Service Mesh

Tetrate Service Bridge to Close Enterprise Application Networking Gap via Service Mesh

14 May 2021 9:00am, by Jennifer Riggins

API Management / Networking / Service Mesh

KrakenD API Gateway Joins the Linux Foundation as the Lura Project

13 May 2021 10:20am, by Mike Melanson

Networking / Sponsored / Contributed

Application Performance in the Age of SD-WAN

5 May 2021 9:00am, by Mike Hicks

Machine Learning / Networking / Service Mesh / Sponsored

Avesha Deploys Machine Learning for More Efficient Load Balancing

5 May 2021 7:50am, by Maria Korolov

Kubernetes / Networking / Sponsored / Contributed

Unifying Kubernetes Service Networking (Again) with the Gateway API

3 May 2021 10:00am, by Mark Church and Rob Scott

Cloud Services / Networking / Sponsored / Contributed

The 4 Definitions of Multicloud: Part 4 — Traffic Portability

3 May 2021 8:30am, by Armon Dadgar

Kubernetes / Networking / Service Mesh

CNCF Adopts Ambassador’s API Gateway, Emissary Ingress

14 Apr 2021 11:29am, by Mike Melanson

Networking / Security / Sponsored / Contributed

Defense in Depth: The First Step to Security Certainty

13 Apr 2021 11:00am, by Allen McNaughton

Monitoring / Networking / Sponsored

How Your Network Impacts User Experience in a COVID-19 World

8 Apr 2021 3:00pm, by Alex Williams and B. Cameron Gain

Microservices / Networking / Service Mesh / Contributed

Service Meshes in the Cloud Native World

5 Apr 2021 2:05pm, by Pavan Belagatti

Networking / Security / Service Mesh / Sponsored

Solo.io: Istio Is Winning the Service Mesh War

31 Mar 2021 12:23pm, by B. Cameron Gain

Cloud Native / Networking / Service Mesh / Sponsored

Gloo Edge 2.0: A Fully Istio-Integrated API Gateway for Multiple Clusters

24 Mar 2021 6:00am, by B. Cameron Gain

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