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Container Networking�Open Networking Innovation Forum

Lee Calcote

Founder, Layer5

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Cloud Native Computing Foundation

  • Non-profit, part of the Linux Foundation
    • Founded December 2015
  • Current projects:

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  • Platinum members:

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Kubernetes Prometheus OpenTracing Fluentd Linkerd gRPC CoreDNS containerd rkt

A B r i e f H i s t o r y o f t h e C l o u d |

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Current CNCF Projects

Prospective CNCF Projects

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Current CNCF Projects

Prospective CNCF Projects

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Companies and their projects

Lee Calcote | @lcalcote

Open Source

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Project strengths

- Multicast

- Built-in name service

- Partition-tolerant

- Overlay

- Simple

- Well-tested / mature

- Overlay

- Security policy

- L3 networking

- Security policy

- Broadest ecosystem support

Support for Container Networking Interface (CNI)

Lee Calcote | @lcalcote

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Spectrums of strength and focus

Developers

Scale

Convenience

Underlay

Private Cloud

Network Engineers

Scale

Convenience

Overlay

Public Cloud

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Critical capabilities

Project

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Overhead / Latency

Moderate

Low

Moderate

Moderate

Scale

Medium

High

Medium

Medium

Ease of Deployment / K/V Store

Easy

Moderate

Involved

Easy

Network Security Policy

Yes, from K8s

Yes

Yes

No

L3 Networking

No

Yes

No

No

Open Source

Lee Calcote | @lcalcote

Support for Container Networking Interface (CNI)