What a week at KubeCon! Networking suddenly feels cool again in distributed systems, and a few themes really stood out to me. The big headline because of how widely it is deployed was the retirement retirement of Ingress NGINX. Luckily, Dean's s got a great guide for transitioning to Cilium Ingress or Gateway API.
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18th November 2025
What a week at KubeCon! Networking suddenly feels cool again in distributed systems, and a few themes really stood out to me. The big headline because of how widely it is deployed was the retirement retirement of Ingress NGINX. Luckily, Dean's s got a great guide for transitioning to Cilium Ingress or Gateway API.
IPv6 Kubernetes was the other hot topic, with both ESnet and TikTok discussing how Cilium helped them push past IPv4 on bare metal and cloud providers respectively. I loved the technical detail of both talks with real numbers, real pain, real solutions.
Finally, looking to the future of cloud native networking there was the donation of
DRANET on the keynote stage to support AI/ML workloads (had to mention it somewhere I guess 😅) and back to the future with improving VM networking on Kubernetes with netkit (making VMs as fast as containers as fast as host). I've got some jet lag to sleep off so let’s 🐝 -gin.
eCHO Episode 198: Post KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Wrap-Up
Upcoming on Nov 21: eCHO Episode 199: Cilium at UBS
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