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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Links from the interview * 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