Last week I posted IPAM modes in Cilium. This week's breadcrumbs we continue with Cilium and is about Load Balancing, or in other words, how Cilium can replace your MetalLB. In Cilium you can create Load Balancers and for them to work you just need to manage to assign it an IP that is reachable

Last week I posted routing modes of Cilium within Kubernetes and the previous one about the main components of Cilium. This week's breadcrumbs are about IP Allocation modes though correct name is IP Address Management (IPAM). In Kubernetes when you create a pod, it gets assigned an IP, but some

Last week I posted main components of Cilium within Kubernetes. This week's breadcrumbs are about routing modes. Routing modes refer to how packets sent from a pod arrive to their destination. Cilium supports two routing modes. 1. Native mode: It's best for performance. The packet sent by

For the ones who don't know, Cilium, it's a CNI i.e. Container Network Interface. For mere mortals this means it's the guy who handles the network stuff within Kubernetes. As you can imagine Kubernetes was built with flexibility in mind, so really a lot of the features it has are plug a