Kubernetes(k8s) Container Network Interface (CNI) is a specification for managing network resources on a kubernetes cluster. CNI enables plugin-based networking solution for containers ranging in functionality from IP address management to access control policy management, QOS, etc. Operators can pick and choose from the many packaged and open CNI implementations that exist or could create custom CNIs to serve their needs.

In this talk Rony Efraim and Liel Shoshan describe how they approach hardware network offload enabling in k8s.

Rony and Liel will illustrate offloading with a bunch of CNIs that can be used in conjunction with OVS. In addition, they will also describe how to offload for other K8s use cases like pod-to-pod intra networking and enhancing ingress service load balancing via dp_hash. And last but not least the speakers will describe challenges faced and future work.

More info: https://netdevconf.info/0x14/session.html?talk-hardware-offload-for-k8s-cont...

Reminder, registration is now open and early bird is still in effect. https://netdevconf.info/0x14/registration.html

cheers, jamal