control plane

MPLS in Data Center Fabrics

March 3, 2020

What I would like to tell about is the usage of MPLS in our Data Center Fabric built with commodity switches based on merchant silicon. MPLS is not a typical case …

Running Legacy VM's along with Containers in Kubernetes! Delusion or Reality?

March 1, 2020

With the increased adoption of Kubernetes by Enterprises, it has become the primary platform for managing applications. Yet many legacy application cannot be moved to k8s due to their dependencies, wh …

Kubernetes the very hard way

February 27, 2020

Laurent Bernaille examines the lessons he learned operating large Kubernetes clusters.

Control BGP state explosion in Scale-out peering

February 25, 2020

Many large-scale service provider networks use some form of scale-out architecture at peering sites. In such an architecture, each participating Autonomous System …

Demystifying SONET/OTN Service SLAs and how to Guarantee them over MPLS

February 24, 2020

For many years optical transport networks have been deployed using TDM technologies such as PDH, SONET and OTN providing highly performant and resilient services t …

Service Mesh Up and Running in 5 Minutes

February 13, 2020

Service Mesh technology is super powerful and super complicated at the same time.With a service mesh, we are able to add complex network routing, telemetry and reporting, TLS security, fault injection …

Building a Unified Hybrid Cloud Networking Stack using Open Virtual Network (OVN)

January 3, 2020

Open Virtual Network (OVN) is an open-source SDN controller, providing abstractions for switching, routing, security policies, etc., with steadily improving adoption in the community. However, its imp …

P4 and P4Runtime Technical Introduction and Use Cases for the Next-Gen SDN Stack

December 28, 2019

P4 is gaining industry momentum. New language features allow describing more forwarding devices, not only programmable ones but also fixed-function conventional ones. P4Runtime was introduced as the n …

Making the Most Out of Kubernetes Audit Logs

December 21, 2019

The Kubernetes audit logs are a rich source of information: all of the calls made to the API server are stored, along with additional metadata such as usernames, timings, and source IPs. They help to …

How Spotify Migrated Ingress HTTP Systems to Envoy

December 10, 2019

Erica and Vladimir are on the team responsible for perimeter systems that sit between Spotifys clients and its backend services. They started unifying those systems from a range of different technolo …

Stitching a Service Mesh Across Hundreds of Discrete Networks

December 9, 2019

Intuit has experienced large growth in its microservices ecosystem over the last few years, which was primarily using a hub and spoke API Gateway for service communication. As the ecosystem expanded, …

Intro: SIG Cluster Lifecycle

December 4, 2019

The Cluster Lifecycle SIG is the Special Interest Group that is responsible for building the user experience for deploying and upgrading Kubernetes clusters. Our mission is examining how we should cha …

Ingress V2 and Multicluster Services

November 15, 2019

With app modernization, weve entered a new phase of structuring services. Services have evolved over time to span multiple clusters as well as hybrid deployments that encompass both on-prem and multi …

The Kubernetes Control Plane for Busy People Who Like Pictures

November 11, 2019

Lets dive into the modular design of the Kubernetes control plane together. Well talk about the specific resources and controllers which make Kubernetes what it is, and how this pattern generalizes- …

Portable, Universal Single Sign-On for Your Clusters

November 10, 2019

In order to enable Single Sign-On in your cluster you need to configure the Kubernetes API server. This is an issue if you are using services where the control plane is managed for you. Some managed s …

Intro: Cluster Lifecycle SIG

November 9, 2019

SIG Cluster Lifecycle is the Special Interest Group that is responsible for building the user experience for deploying and upgrading Kubernetes clusters. Our mission is examining how we should change …

JustFootballs Journey to gRPC + Linkerd in Production

November 6, 2019

Ben (Just Football) will talk about their journey with Kubernetes and microservices from the world of HTTP/1.1 to HTTP/2.0 and gRPC. He will talk about the reasons for moving, and the best practices J …

gRPC Load Balancing and Service Mesh

November 2, 2019

Service mesh architecture proposes a unique approach for control plane management (including load balancing). This talk goes over the options available for gRPC load-balancing in the context of a gRPC …

10 Ways to Shoot Yourself in the Foot with Kubernetes, #9 Will Surprise You

October 28, 2019

Kubernetes is a very powerful and complicated system, and many users dont understand the underlying systems. Come learn how your users can abuse container runtimes, overwhelm your control plane, and …

Intro + Deep Dive: Kubernetes IoT Edge WG

October 20, 2019

Intro and Deep Dive: Edge Computing challenges and solutions with Kubernetes This session will investigate and catalogue challenges encountered when Kubernetes is deployed in Edge and IoT applications …

Kubernetes Networking at Scale

October 15, 2019

Running large Kubernetes clusters serving high volumes of traffic (thousands of nodes serving thousands of requests/second) requires tackling scaling challenges in both the control plane and data plan …

Network Observability with Envoy

October 11, 2019

The service mesh is built from two components the data plane and the control plane. The data plane handles the traffic from your service and is responsible for securing traffic, reliability patterns a …

Kubernetes IoT and Edge Working Group

October 4, 2019

Kubernetes describes itself as "a portable, extensible open-source platform for managing containerized workloads and services".There are edge and IoT use cases that challenge some aspects of Kubernete …

Deep Dive: etcd

September 22, 2019

etcd, a distributed key-value store, is the most critical component to Kubernetes control plane to provide strong consistency and durability of cluster metadata. etcd implements Raft consensus algorit …