Links tagged “networking”

projectcalico.org

Project Calico, the open-source networking and network-policy layer for containers, VMs and bare metal, with eBPF, iptables, nftables and VPP data planes.

philcalcado.com

Traces how microservice concerns such as service discovery and circuit breaking moved out of application code into a dedicated layer of sidecar proxies.

github.com

Source and docs for GLBC, the controller that turns Kubernetes Ingress resources into Google Compute Engine L7 load balancers; the contrib repository is now archived.

infoq.com

Report on the service load balancing added in Docker 1.12, which routes traffic to Swarm service replicas through DNS and IPVS instead of manual container aliases.

linux-toys.com

Critique of the Docker 1.12 release, arguing that Swarm mode and its multi-host networking were marketed before they worked reliably.