For pods to talk to each other in Kubernetes, you need a virtual network. Antonin Bas is a staff engineer at VMware and a maintainer of Project Antrea; a CNI plugin which provides such a network. He talks to Adam and Craig about encapsulation, virtualisation, and 10,000 year old Finnish artifacts.

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Visual Basic
Professor Nick McKeown, co-founder of Nicira
Barefoot Networks
P4, in the Open Networking Foundation
Software-defined networking
Virtual networking
- VLAN
- VXLAN
The Kubernetes network model
Network plugins:
- Flannel
- Weave Net
- Calico
- Cilium
- kubenet
Antrea
- The Antrea Net
- Antrea, Finland; now Kamennogorsk, Russia
Container Network Interface (CNI)
veth pairs
Open vSwitch (OVS)
NodeIPAM Controller
CNI plugin chaining
Installing Antrea with other CNI plugins
Antrea features:
- Network policy
- IPSEC between nodes
Antrea on GitHub
Antonin Bas on Twitter and GitHub

Antrea, with Antonin Bas

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