Container Networking, CNI Plugins & Cilium/eBPF

High-Performance Networking & Cloud-Native · 30 illustrated lessons (text/HTML)

Outcomes

• Write and test a CNI plugin from first principles
• Operate Cilium with eBPF policies, observability and cluster mesh
• Choose container networking models for large clusters

Where we teach this

• PDP-210 · Container Networking, CNI and Cilium guided, self-paced

The lessons

Every lesson in this curriculum, in the order we teach it.

• 1Introduction: container networking and CNI plugin development in depth
• 2Linux networking refresher
• 3Container network models in depth
• 4The CNI specification explained
• 5Building a simple CNI plugin by hand
• 6Kubernetes networking integration in practice
• 7eBPF getting started
• 8The eBPF development toolchain in depth
• 9Writing your first eBPF program
• 10Cilium architecture overview
• 11Cilium network data plane in depth
• 12Installing and deploying Cilium in depth
• 13Cilium network policies in practice
• 14Cilium Cluster Mesh in depth
• 15Cilium observability in depth
• 16Cilium service-mesh integration in depth
• 17Efficient load balancing with eBPF
• 18Strengthening network policy with eBPF
• 19Performance tuning and troubleshooting: eBPF and Cilium in depth
• 20Security enhancement: process-level network policy and identity with eBPF
• 21Multi-tenancy and network isolation
• 22BGP integration and cloud-native routing
• 23IPv6 and dual-stack networking in depth
• 24Transparent encryption with WireGuard
• 25Extending Cilium with custom eBPF programs
• 26Advanced CNI plugin patterns in depth
• 27Large-scale cluster networking in practice
• 28Container networking alternatives and in-depth technology selection
• 29Future trends: eBPF, service meshes and programmable data-centre networks
• 30Course summary and project practice