Antrea, with Antonin Bas

Nov 3, 2020

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