Tutorial: Kubernetes 101 for Network Professionals

Overview of the Fundamental components for Kubernetes that every Network Professional should know: Intro to Network Namespaces and the fundamentals of Pods and how they communicate in a Kubernetes Cluster. K8s services like NodePort and LoadBalancer. An overview about CNI plugins, the built-in ones and the ones available in the market (i.e. Calico, Cilium). Comparison between the most popular CNI Plugins. Why multus is so important in Telco? Security Policies. About the last trends regarding Segment Routing (SRv6 and Cilium) and Kubernetes, Customer Resource Definitions for Network Orchestration (i.e. Nephio) and eBPF vs iptables. Speaker Mauricio Rojas