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Author: Nico Vibert, Filip Nikolic, James Laverack

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Cilium is now considered the de facto cloud native networking platform for Kubernetes, connecting, securing, and monitoring millions of applications across thousands of clusters. With such versatility and feature-richness, Cilium can be daunting to learn. This comprehensive guide breaks Cilium down, making it broadly accessible to the increasing number of users who'll encounter the platform in their careers. You'll learn how Cilium works, the problems it can solve, and how to run it in production. If you're an experienced platform engineer or network architect who wants to get on top of the next big thing in cloud networking, this book is for you.

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Hedgehog Cilium: Up and Running Cilium: Up and Running Edition (only include edition line if it's 2e or higher --> Cloud Native Networking, Security, and Obs...
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e name, a clear leader in this category is emerging. Cilium. Powered by a kernel technology called eBPF, Cilium has taken the Kubernetes space by storm. It h...
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made this book far better than it would otherwise have been. Our thanks go to Tony Norlin, Joseph Ligier, Glen Yu, Grace Nguyen, Hemanth Malla, Quentin Monne...
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rking layer they ran without ever making an explicit choice. For those not using Kubernetes on these public managed services, the fact that the largest cloud...
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ing outside the cluster, in a different part of the network. Cilium supports this by: Connecting back to the core network, such as top-of-rack (ToR) devices,...
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tion, and visualization tools such as the Hubble CLI and UI. Cluster Mesh API Server Enables multicluster networking by sharing service and endpoint metadata...
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cutes the CNI plugin binary with the details of the request. The plugin passes this information along to the Cilium agent, which then sets up or tears down t...
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hubble observe --ipv6 --from-pod pod-worker Sep 7 15:11:18.288: default/pod-worker (ID:3211) -> default/pod-worker2 (ID:50760) to-overlay FORWARDED (ICMPv6 E...
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Publisher: O'Reilly Media
Publish Year: 2026
Language: English
File Format: EPUB
File Size: 9.5 MB