How Trip.com uses Cilium
This post provides the background on how Trip.com uses Cilium and what lead the team to standardize on Cilium as their networking and network security platform for the years to come. It is a summary with some commentary of the original trip.com blog post which provides extensive details into the decision-making process and experiences while running Cilium in production.
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Cilium 1.6: KVstore-free operation, 100% kube-proxy replacement, Socket-based load-balancing
We are excited to announce the Cilium 1.6 release. A total of 1408 commits have been contributed by the community with many developers contributing for the first time. Cilium 1.6 introduces several exciting new features: KVStore free operation:
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Cilium User Survey March 2019
The survey was announced on our Slack channel and on Twitter. Participation was anonymous and did not require to leave behind contact information. Most questions had a set of predefined answers plus a field to add additional answers.
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Deep Dive into Cilium Multi-cluster
Let’s review some of the use cases of connecting multiple Kubernetes clusters before we dive into the implementation details. High availability is the most obvious use case for most. This use case includes operating Kubernetes clusters in multiple regions or availability zones and runs the replicas of the same services in each cluster.
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Cilium 1.4: Multi-Cluster Service Routing, DNS Authorization
We are excited to announce the Cilium 1.4 release. The release introduces several new features as well as optimization and scalability work. The highlights include the addition of global services to provide Kubernetes service routing across multiple clusters, DNS request/response aware authorization and visibility, transparent encryption (beta), IPVLAN support for better performance and latency (beta), integration with Flannel, GKE on COS support, AWS metadata based policy enforcement (alpha) as well as significant efforts into optimizing memory and CPU usage.
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