AKS & Cilium, a love story?

Have you ever felt that network for AKS was a pain?
Even more, have you ever felt that some feature were missing?
Well, there are some good news.
In the recent months (years?), Cilium imposed its print in the Kubernetes landscape.
And also in the Azure landscape!

In this session, we'll take a look at the new networking options for AKS & clarify the different offers available to use Cilium.
Then we'll look at some of Cilium features that make a difference for a kubernetes environment.

Leave with a clarified view of Azure CNI options and Cilium features for your Azure Kubernetes hosted workloads.

GPS for network routing with Azure Virtual WAN

Azure Virtual WAN, with the Virtual Hubs, change the way we build a Hub & Spokes topology.
On the paper, evrtything seems nice.
What about in real life?
In this session, we'll walktrhough the differents steps of a Hub & Spoke configuration with Virtual WAN and become familiar with our options for configuring routing, and build a Secure Hub.
After this session, hopefully, you'll be much more clear on the way to find your network route in Azure ^^, hence the GPS/

Back to Basics - Managing Private DNS in Azure

Even in modern Infrastructure, people still need DNS, because it's way easier to find a human readable name than an IP.
The thing is, We tend to take for granted that everything is taken care of.
It's not!
In this session, we'll start from the most basic need: How do we manage private DNS in an Azure environment.
After a rapid view of the available options, we'll take a look at a somehow real life scenario:
Managing DNS resolution in Azure hybrid environment.

The objective of this session : to be clear on where DNS is configurable, when to use private dns zone or Private DNS resolver, or even a IaaS option

Basic knowledge of DNS in general, Azure network

Gateway API or Ingress Controller, what do I do in AKS?

As one can imagine, the main interest of Kubernetes (or AKS) is to host applications.
Up until now, people used an Ingress Controller to expose those applications.
But it would be no fun if things did not change!
Hence, here comes the Gateway APi, the new trendy way for applications exposition management.

In this session, we'll start with a rapid review of what Gateway API is and what it changes in the kubernetes API.
We'll then have an overview of available Gateway API in the Kubernetes landscape.
To finish, we'll have a practical approach of a Gateway API in AKS with Application Gateway for container, the Azure managed Gateway API

AKS cluster mesh in VWAN environment with Cilium

On one side, we have the promise of multi-cluster applications, shared services and a unique control plane in kubernetes.
In the other, we have the Azure network backbone, still living on its own.
In this session, we'll start with a rapid overview of Cilium cluster mesh concepts.
We'll then transpose it in an Azure/AKS environment with Virtual WAN, and try to answer those questions:
Is the promise of the unique control plane hold?
How do we manage Internet exposition for global application?
What do we do to make our cluster mesh production ready?