Interesting Collection of Information

Kubernetes

Service Mesh

eBPF

• Cilium Open Source Project
• How eBPF will solve Service Mesh - Goodbye Sidecars (Isovalent)
• How eBPF Streamlines the Service Mesh (Isovalent via The New Stack)
• Super Charge Your Service Mesh with eBPF (Solo.io via ServiceMeshCon NA 2021)
• eBPF for Service Mesh? Yes, but Envoy Proxy is here to stay

• Merbridge - Accelerate your Mesh with eBPF (Istio Blog)

• Calico eBPF via Tigera - with lots of contrasting performance data.

• GKE Dataplane v2
• AWS: Turbocharging EKS networking with Bottlerocket, Calico, and eBPF

Deployment

• Helm
• Kustomize: Kubernetes native configuration management. A way to overlay configurations rather than using templates. Base configuration for all environments, then use a dev or test or prod YAML for those specific environments. Integrated into kubectl with ‘-k’ option.
  • Introduction to Kustomize: A talk from Kubernetes Meetup Tokyo #12
• ArgoCD, Docs
  • Structuring Your Repo for ArgoCD, part 1: Leveraging Helm, Kustomize, GitOps with ArgoCD to deduplicate a vast number of the configuration files for the various stages.

Cloud Native Community

Networking

• Kubernetes Networking Demystifed: a brief guide
• Original “Demystified” posting at StackRox
• Tracing the path of network traffic in Kubernetes

Bare Metal

• Provision Bare Metal Kubernetes with the Cluster API using MaaS

Storage

• Cloud Native Storage with OpenEBS - Admin Magazine

etcd

• How etcd works and 6 tips to keep in mind
• A Closer Look at Etcd: The Brain of a Kubernetes Cluster

Cisco

• A Comprehensive Guide to Kubernetes Networking with the Intersight Kubernetes Service White paper (PDF 2021-11-08)

Hashicorp

• Let’s Encrypt Hashicorp Nomad and Consul

Solo

• Blocking Log4j with Gloo Mesh
• Christian Posta Blogs
  • Do I need an API Gateway if I have a service mesh

Applications, DevOps, and more

Development

• The 12-factor Application
• OpenAPI Spec
• Swagger
  • OpenAPI Guide
  • Swagger Hub
  • Swagger Editor
  • Swagger UI
  • Swagger Codegen
• Redocly
  • OpenAPI repo on GitHub
• JSON Placeholder
• Nicholas Jackson’s Fake Service

GitHub

• Sample GitHub Actions

Build Environments

• Vagrant
  • Open Source ESXi Vagrant Provider
• Ruby 2.7.3 GitHub Pages build environment

Data Analysis

• Emerging Architectures in Modern Data Infrastructure

Linux

Performance/Monitoring

• Brendan Gregg

Networking

VXLAN EVPN

RFCs

• VXLAN RFC 7348
• BGP MPLS-based Ethernet VPN RFC 7432
• Network Virtualization Overlays RFC 8365
• Integrated Routing and Bridging RFC 9135
• IP Prefix Advertisement in Ethernet VPN RFC 9136
• Internet Exchange BGP Route Server RFC 7947
• Multi-site EVPN based VXLAN using Border Gateways draft-sharma-multi-site-evpn
• Multicast in MPLS/BGP IP VPNs RFC 6513
• BGP Encodings and Procedures for Multicast in MPLS/BGP IP VPNs RFC 6514
• Seamless Multicast Interoperability between EVPN and MVPN PEs draft-sajassi-bess-evpn-mvpn-seamless-interop-04
• NVO3 Fault Management draft-tissa-nvo3-oam-fm

NX-OS

• VXLAN/EVPN Forwarding Characteristics
• “A Modern, Open and Scalable Fabric: VXLAN EVPN”

Automation/Programmability

RedHat Ansible

• Ansible Collections Workshop (AnsibleFest 2020)
• Training course for Red Hat Automation Platform

pyATS

• pyATS Docs
• pyATS API
• Jerome Tissieres Intro Article

Blogging/Publishing

Workshop Style Themes

• https://learn.netlify.com/en/
• https://github.com/matcornic/hugo-theme-learn
• https://github.com/goetzrieger/ansible-labs-summit2020