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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 / Culture / Data / DevOps / Edge / IoT / Networking / Contributed

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Containers / Kubernetes / Networking / Contributed

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Cloud Native / Networking / Sponsored

OPNFV Demonstrates How to Cut the Cord from Proprietary Hardware Designs

21 Nov 2016 9:38am, by Kiran Oliver

Containers / Development / Kubernetes / Networking / Open Source

Apprenda-led Team Preps Kubernetes to Manage Windows Containers

15 Nov 2016 7:24am, by Joab Jackson

Cloud Native / Containers / Kubernetes / Networking / Open Source

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

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

Cloud Native / Kubernetes / Networking / Sponsored

Standardizing Container Networking with the Container Network Interface

25 Oct 2016 10:32am, by Kiran Oliver

Containers / Kubernetes / Networking

Three Approaches to Container Networking

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

Cloud Native / Development / Kubernetes / Networking / Open Source

The Swinging Pendulum of Container Orchestration

26 Sep 2016 6:58am, by Kiran Oliver

CI/CD / Containers / Monitoring / Networking / Security / Storage

Containerized Production Environments: Networking, Security, and Storage

22 Sep 2016 1:01pm, by Vivek Juneja

Containers / Kubernetes / Networking

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

16 Sep 2016 11:47am, by Lee Calcote

Containers / Kubernetes / Networking

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

Containers / Networking

Container Networking: A Breakdown, Explanation and Analysis

14 Sep 2016 12:40pm, by Lee Calcote

Networking / Contributed

Ditch the Pitfalls of Layer 2 Networks by Routing on the Host

8 Sep 2016 1:00pm, by JR Rivers

Containers / Networking / Security

A Software-Defined Approach to Networking and Security

8 Sep 2016 9:09am, by Kiran Oliver

Cloud Native / Kubernetes / Networking / Open Source / Security

Midokura, PLUMGrid Advance Software-Defined Networking with New Releases

7 Sep 2016 9:10am, by Swapnil Bhartiya

Containers / Kubernetes / Networking

Container Orchestration and the Network

1 Sep 2016 9:52am, by Kiran Oliver

Containers / DevOps / Networking / Sponsored

Uniting Teams with a DevOps Perspective

25 Aug 2016 8:57am, by Kiran Oliver

Containers / Networking / Security / Storage

Networking, Security and Storage for Docker and Containers: Our Ebook is Here

23 Aug 2016 7:04am, by Benjamin Ball

Culture / Edge / IoT / Networking

Off-The-Shelf Hacker: The Microcontroller Revolution Is Just Getting Started

20 Aug 2016 3:41am, by drtorq

Networking / Open Source

VMware Hands Oversight of Open vSwitch to The Linux Foundation

9 Aug 2016 4:53pm, by Scott M. Fulton III

Data / Networking

How Project Calico Transcends the Limits of Software-Defined Networking

27 Jul 2016 10:20am, by Kiran Oliver

Containers / Networking / Sponsored

DockerCon 2016 Pancake Breakfast: Who Should Manage Container Networking?

5 Jul 2016 9:17am, by Kiran Oliver

CI/CD / Containers / DevOps / Kubernetes / Networking

The Five Styles of Workload Orchestration

5 Jul 2016 7:52am, by Scott M. Fulton III

Cloud Native / Development / Kubernetes / Networking / Open Source

Open Source NFV Part Four: Open Source MANO

23 Jun 2016 6:49am, by Sridhar Rao

Networking / Sponsored / Contributed

How Overlay Networks Pave the Way for Seamless Hybrid Clouds

3 Jun 2016 6:36am, by Mathew Lodge

Cloud Services / Kubernetes / Networking / Sponsored

Teridion on Network Performance: Visibility without Action is Pretty Useless

2 Jun 2016 9:37am, by Kiran Oliver

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