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Cilium Series Part 13: Enabling XDP Acceleration and Cilium Performance Tuning Summary

Tune Cilium and enable XDP acceleration to process inbound requests such as NodePort directly from the network driver layer, helping reduce latency and scale services. Also includes a summary of Ciliu

2023-07-26

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#CloudNative #BestPractices #Kubernetes #Security #CNI #Cilium #eBPF #Observability #Kernel #Networking

Cilium Series Part 12: Enabling BBR Congestion Control for Pods

Tuning Cilium to enable BBR congestion control for Pods, delivering higher bandwidth and lower latency for internet traffic

2023-07-26

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Cilium Series Part 11: Enabling Bandwidth Manager

Tuning Cilium by enabling Bandwidth Manager to manage network traffic more efficiently, improving overall application latency and throughput.

2023-07-25

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Cilium Series Part 10 - Enabling IPv6 BIG TCP and Jumbo Frames

Tuning Cilium: Enabling IPv6 BIG TCP allows the network stack to prepare larger GSO (transmit) and GRO (receive) packets, reducing the number of stack traversals to improve performance and latency.

2023-07-25

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Cilium Series Part 9: Switching Host Routing to BPF-Based Mode

Tuning Cilium by enabling Host Routing to completely bypass iptables and the upper host stack, achieving faster network namespace switching than regular veth device operations.

2023-07-25

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Cilium Series Part 8: Bypass IPTables Connection Tracking

Tuning Cilium by configuring bypass of IPTables connection tracking to improve network performance.

2023-07-25

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Cilium Series Part 7: Switching Cilium's NodePort Implementation from SNAT to DSR

Switch Cilium's NodePort implementation from SNAT to DSR to improve network performance.

2023-07-25

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#CloudNative #BestPractices #Kubernetes #Security #CNI #Cilium #eBPF #Observability #Kernel #Networking

Cilium Series Part 6: Switching IP Masquerading from IPtables to eBPF

Enable Cilium eBPF IP masquerading mode to improve network efficiency.

2023-07-24

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Cilium Series Part 5: Replacing KubeProxy with Cilium

Replace KubeProxy with Cilium to drastically reduce iptables rule chains (and netfilter), achieving comprehensive network performance improvements.

2023-07-24

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Cilium Series - 4 - Cilium Native Routing

Enable Cilium Native Routing to improve network performance.

2023-07-21

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#CloudNative #BestPractices #Kubernetes #Security #CNI #Cilium #eBPF #Observability #Kernel #Networking