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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.

Kubernetes / Networking / Sponsored

Midokura: Where Overlay Networks Can Edge out Software Defined Networking

5 Apr 2016 10:36am, by Scott M. Fulton III

Cloud Native / Containers / Networking

PLUMGrid Updates its OpenStack Networking Software with Support for Docker, Kuryr

30 Mar 2016 10:19am, by Swapnil Bhartiya

Development / Networking / Open Source

OpenDaylight and ONOS: Does SDN Really Need Two Controllers?

28 Mar 2016 1:15pm, by Scott M. Fulton III

Networking

A Guide for Running Multiple Controllers in Software-Defined Networks

21 Mar 2016 12:51pm, by Sridhar Rao

Networking

Cisco: Before NFV Virtualizes the Networks, It will Need Better Telemetry

17 Mar 2016 10:58am, by Scott M. Fulton III

Networking

Cisco Brings Network Functions Virtualization to the Enterprise

10 Mar 2016 8:15am, by Susan Hall

CI/CD / Development / Networking

IBM Cloud to Easily Replicate VMware Workloads and Enterprise Java

22 Feb 2016 8:00am, by Joab Jackson

Networking / Open Source

Linux Foundation Takes on Networking with FD.io Effort

11 Feb 2016 8:38am, by Susan Hall

Cloud Native / Microservices / Networking

Avi Networks: Microservices Can’t Be Automated with Monolithic Tools

2 Feb 2016 6:29am, by Scott M. Fulton III

Networking

When Web scale isn’t Enough: Containers in the Telecommunications Space

1 Feb 2016 7:45am, by Scott M. Fulton III

Cloud Services / Containers / Monitoring / Networking / Security / Sponsored / Contributed

Delivering Secure, Enterprise Features for Container Orchestration in a Cloud-Native Platform

27 Jan 2016 6:00am, by Matt Ammerman

Kubernetes / Networking

Project Calico Now Fully Supports Kubernetes

25 Jan 2016 6:07am, by Susan Hall

Containers / Kubernetes / Networking

Why Google Won’t Support Docker’s Container Network Model

20 Jan 2016 8:48am, by TC Currie

Cloud Native / Networking / Open Source

How OPNFV Operationalizes Network Functions Virtualization

6 Jan 2016 11:54am, by Sridhar Rao

Networking

Global Speech Networks Embraces Software Defined Networking with VMWare NSX

23 Dec 2015 10:18am, by Kiran Oliver

Containers / Networking

Weaveworks Brings Software Defined Networking to Containers

22 Dec 2015 10:34am, by Kiran Oliver

Cloud Services / Networking / Sponsored / Contributed

Teridion’s Processes and Architecture for Migrating Across Cloud Providers

8 Dec 2015 8:00pm, by Doron Samelson and Dave Ginsburg

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

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