When using NSX-T for networking in combination with NSX ALB for load balancing in the vSphere IaaS Control Plane, the ALB Service Engines attach to each Tier-1 Router (vSphere Namespace) with one vNIC. Naturally, there’s a limit of 10 vNICs per Service Engine, meaning we can connect up to 8 Tier-1 routers to one Service Engine, as one vNIC is needed for management and another for frontend traffic. We were curious to see how NSX ALB would handle more than 8 vSphere Namespaces in this setup. Read more

Identifying different applications running in the same Kubernetes cluster at an external firewall can be challenging. By default, all services running on a node are SNATed to the node’s IP address. With Antrea Egress we can make use of dedicated egress IPs for different Pods in a Cluster. If you just want to get to the quickstart, click here. What is Antrea? Antrea is a Kubernetes CNI which is currently a CNCF Sandbox Project. Read more