Hybrid cloud blog

May 12, 2023

Network Functions Virtualization and Edge Strategy, from OpenShift Commons Gathering, Amsterdam 2023

In a talk at the OpenShift Commons Gathering, Amsterdam 2023, Red Hat's Almog Elfassy detailed the journey from network functions virtualization to cloud native network functions. This enables next ...

Alex Handy

March 14, 2023

Your guide to VLANs based on container namespaced interfaces in OpenShift pods

Until recently, the existing vlan/macvlan/ipvlan CNI plugins only allowed users to create a VLAN subinterface based on a master interface in the host network namespace, and place the VLAN ...

Marcin Mirecki

February 14, 2023

How to Configure an OpenShift node as an IPv6 router in an O-RAN LLS-C1 configuration

Introduction When building a 5G network, operators can choose from different configurations to combine the components that form the solution. We are going to discuss the requirements of the LLS-C1 ...

Javier Pena

February 6, 2023

Check Out the new Network Observability Support in OpenShift 4.12

Announcing Network Observability With the release of Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform version 4.12, Network Observability is now a fully supported, optional addition to network-specific ...

Steven Lee

January 23, 2023

How to Display Your Kubernetes / OpenShift Network Flows

Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform (OCP) has had monitoring capabilities from the start and Network Observability as Developer Preview since OCP 4.10 release. Network Observability brings user ...

Julien Pinsonneau

December 8, 2022

Kubernetes Network Emulation on OpenShift

Network emulation is the process of imitating certain aspects of the behavior of network equipment without actually using any target real-world networking hardware. While there are many different use ...

Paul Wallrabe

November 23, 2022

A Guide to Integrating Red Hat OpenStack with Cisco ACI

While working on a Red Hat OpenStack related engagement with one of our customers, we did a Proof of Concept (PoC) with them where the scope was to set up Red Hat OpenStack in their environment and ...

Jagjit Pathania

November 16, 2022

Introducing OpenShift Service Mesh 2.3

We are pleased to announce the release of OpenShift Service Mesh 2.3. OpenShift Service Mesh is based on the Istio project, with Kiali as the management console for Service Mesh, and is included and ...

Jamie Longmuir

September 12, 2022

Introducing the OpenShift Service Mesh Console (A Technology Preview)

If you’ve developed and deployed applications utilizing OpenShift Service Mesh (OSSM) or the open source project Istio (which is the upstream project OSSM is based on), then you most likely are very ...

John Mazzitelli

July 6, 2022

Using QoS DSCP in OpenShift Container Platform

Not all traffic has the same priority, and when there is contention for bandwidth, there should be a mechanism for network appliances outside the OpenShift Container Platform (OCP) cluster to ...

Ori Braunshtein

April 8, 2022

How to Use MetalLB in BGP Mode

Introduction With the release of OpenShift 4.10, the BGP or Border Gateway Protocol mode for the MetalLB operator became generally available. BGP mode offers a novel way to statelessly load balance ...

Mauro Oddi

April 7, 2022

Deploying a high-availability, fault-tolerant Kubernetes Service on bare metal clusters with MetalLB BGP

Working with bare-metal clusters? Looking for a LoadBalancer? MetalLB is what you need. MetalLB offers a network load balancer implementation that integrates with standard network equipment and ...

Sabina Aledort and Carlos Goncalves