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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.

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Networking / Contributed

How Multicloud Will Transform the Future of Enterprise IT

11 Sep 2018 12:00pm, by Michael Bushong

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Kubernetes / Networking

VMware CEO: A Virtual Machine Is Still the Best Place to Run Kubernetes

28 Aug 2018 9:42am, by Scott M. Fulton III

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Networking / Contributed

The Automation Journey for Network Management

21 Aug 2018 9:00am, by Sasa Nijemcevic

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CI/CD / DevOps / Networking

NetDevOps: The Next Frontier in Agile Enterprise Automation?

21 Jun 2018 6:00am, by Jennifer Riggins

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Networking / Contributed

Why Multicloud Orchestration Is Key to Evolving Enterprise IT

1 Jun 2018 11:14am, by Michael Bushong

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Networking

Nyansa: Analytics for Diving into Network Health

14 May 2018 6:00am, by Susan Hall

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Networking / Contributed

Improve User Performance and Productivity by Unleashing the Power of Network Data

23 Apr 2018 10:17am, by David Callisch

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Containers / Kubernetes / Networking / Sponsored

NSX-T: VMware’s Networking Solution for Modern, Multicloud Applications

6 Feb 2018 10:05am, by Swapnil Bhartiya and Lee Calcote

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Containers / Kubernetes / Networking / Storage

Diamanti Offers a Plug-and-Play Kubernetes Deployment

5 Feb 2018 3:00am, by Susan Hall

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CI/CD / Culture / Data / Networking

The Impact Video Data Traffic Has on Net Neutrality

16 Dec 2017 9:00am, by Lawrence Hecht

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Culture / Networking

Off-The-Shelf Hacker: Creating a Telepresence Personality for Hedley, the Robotic Skull

13 Dec 2017 3:00am, by drtorq

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Development / Networking / Contributed

With OPNFV, Orange Plans a Full-Scale Rollout of Network Functions Virtualization

11 Dec 2017 9:00am, by Jehanne Savi

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Development / Kubernetes / Microservices / Networking / Security / Storage

What Kubernetes Needs to Run in Production

9 Nov 2017 11:18am, by Craig Martin, Janakiram MSV and Krishnan Subramanian

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DevOps / Microservices / Networking / Contributed

DevNetOps: How Microservices Could Bring DevOps Speed to Networking Management

13 Oct 2017 12:00pm, by James Kelly

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Kubernetes / Networking / Storage

For NetApp, the Emerging Container Market Brings Changes to Its Portfolio, Selling Strategy

21 Aug 2017 2:00am, by Maxwell Cooter

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Cloud Native / Containers / DevOps / Kubernetes / Networking

GitHub Goes All in on Kubernetes

16 Aug 2017 9:00am, by Michelle Gienow

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Cloud Native / Containers / Kubernetes / Microservices / Networking

Tigera Aims to Ease Connectivity Pain with Kubernetes

11 Aug 2017 9:00am, by Susan Hall

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Cloud Native / Data / Development / Machine Learning / Networking / Tools

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

5 Aug 2017 3:00am, by Joab Jackson

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CI/CD / Development / DevOps / Kubernetes / Networking / Contributed

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

5 Jul 2017 12:00pm, by James Kelly

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Containers / Development / Kubernetes / Networking

Microsoft Trims Nano Server for Container Work

29 Jun 2017 2:00am, by Mary Branscombe

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Cloud Services / Development / Edge / IoT / Machine Learning / Microservices / Networking

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

8 Jun 2017 6:00am, by Mary Branscombe

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Cloud Native / Cloud Services / Microservices / Networking

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

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

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Cloud Native / Containers / Microservices / Networking

F5 Networks: Containers Need Both Networking and Orchestration

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

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Cloud Native / Development / Microservices / Networking / Service Mesh

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

27 Apr 2017 1:00am, by Susan Hall

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Containers / Networking

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

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

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Cloud Native / Culture / Edge / IoT / Networking / Contributed

Game of Nodes: Network Operators vs. Cloud Operators

12 Apr 2017 6:00am, by Marco Rodrigues