Open Networking Summit Europe 2019

Network Service Mesh is a novel approach solving complicated L2/L3 use cases in Kubernetes that are challenging to address with the existing networking model. The forwarding plane is one of the two key components of Network Service Mesh which makes this possible. This session will cover the implementation of a pure Kernel-based forwarding plane using the built-in network facilities such as netlink. By leveraging the Linux kernel networking, it makes it possible to enable a wide variety of network protocols that are not yet native in Kubernetes. This will ease the introduction of new use cases for cloud-native services allowing for more domains to benefit from the cloud-native technologies.