Keeping It Simple: Cilium Networking for Multicloud Kubernetes - Liz Rice, Isovalent
Channel: CNCF [Cloud Native Computing Foundation]
Date: 2023-05-01

Keeping It Simple: Cilium Networking for Multicloud Kubernetes - Liz Rice, Isovalent

Kubernetes promises that we can run containerized workloads in any cloud, and according to a recent article InfoWorld “2023 may [finally] be the year of multicloud Kubernetes”. For this to happen, we need seamless connectivity between workloads across clusters, regardless of the cloud they’re running on. From the perspective of a developer, shouldn’t connectivity across clouds be as simple as connectivity within a cluster? This talk explores - and demonstrates - how Cilium and its ClusterMesh feature can take care of many aspects of connectivity across multiple clusters in a cloud-agnostic way. It will show how just a few additional lines of YAML in your existing Kubernetes resources can enable: - Connectivity between services spread across clouds - Load balancing requests across backends in multiple clusters - Connectivity between Kubernetes and legacy workloads - Mutually-authenticated, encrypted connections between services - Multi-cluster network policies The talk will also discuss some of the challenges related to IP address management, scale, and observability of multi-cluster networks, and how Cilium can help.