Kubernetes Networking

Service Mesh vs eBPF-Native Data Planes: How to Choose

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Every platform team that runs Kubernetes past a few dozen services eventually has the service mesh vs eBPF argument, usually in a design review where one engineer points at fleet-wide CPU graphs and says the Envoy sidecars are costing too much, and another engineer points at a canary rollout ticket and says none of that … Read more

IPv6 at Enterprise Scale: A Migration Playbook

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Ask a network architect why they’re finally doing an enterprise IPv6 migration and “we’re running out of IPv4 addresses” is almost never the honest answer. Nobody sitting in a data center cares about the global IPv4 free pool. That argument was settled a decade ago, and either way it was never their problem. The trigger … Read more