This put up was co-authored by Narayan Annamalai, Partner PM Manager, Microsoft Azure.
As cloud-native functions are experiencing astronomical development, prospects are continuously demanding to scale their Kubernetes and containerized deployments with wealthy characteristic units for community safety and observability and with out degrading their community efficiency. With the above in thoughts, we’re enthusiastic about this partnership to boost our platform to convey the facility of eBPF natively in Microsoft Azure that can effectively meet networking capabilities like container community safety, cluster service routing, and community observability at a big scale whereas sustaining mission-critical uptime and reliability.
Microsoft and Isovalent convey new options with eBPF to Azure Kubernetes Services
Microsoft broadcasts the strategic partnership with Isovalent to convey Cilium’s eBPF-powered networking knowledge airplane and enhanced options for Kubernetes and cloud-native infrastructure.
Azure Kubernetes Services (AKS) will now be deployed with Cilium open-source knowledge airplane and natively built-in with Azure Container Networking Interface (CNI).
Microsoft and Isovalent will allow Isovalent Cilium Enterprise as a Kubernetes container App providing onto Azure Container Marketplace. This will present a one-click deployment resolution to Azure Kubernetes clusters with Isovalent Cilium Enterprise superior options.
Azure CNI powered by Cilium
Recently, Microsoft introduced the preview of Azure CNI powered by Cilium for Azure Kubernetes Services.
Cilium’s experience in eBPF-enriched options like environment friendly load-balancing, in depth community security measures, and wealthy monitoring together with industry-leading sturdy and scalable Azure CNI IP Address Management (IPAM), VNET and Overlay mode, will give essentially the most performant and best-in-class container networking platform for our AKS prospects.
As a local providing, prospects will discover it considerably simpler to leverage Cilium open-source options instantly on AKS Cluster creations versus multi-step configuration through convey your individual CNI (BYOCNI) or customized configurations.
Microsoft will deal with first-line help and collaborate with Isovalent on particular help points to their deep information of the know-how. We are thrilled to be increasing our relationship with Isovalent and persevering with our collaboration with the Cilium open-source group. Together, we’ve constructed a really perfect platform for present advantages and future improvements.
Isovalent Cilium Enterprise in Azure Container Marketplace
Microsoft and Isovalent are actively collaborating to convey the Isovalent Cilium Enterprise providing onto Azure Kubernetes Services through Azure Container Marketplace.
With this tight integration, prospects who additionally need superior Isovalent Cilium Enterprise capabilities, shall be provided one-click deployment and improve for Cilium Enterprise options to a brand new or current AKS cluster with a a lot easier and extra dependable expertise. Cilium Enterprise shall be constructed with native integration with Azure networking platform to supply superior options and capabilities with best-in-class efficiency and scale. Microsoft and Isovalent can even collaborate to incorporate joint testing, compatibility, and versioning checks, together with seamline help to make sure Cilium Enterprise runs finest on Azure.
Customers can even get a unified billing expertise, auto-upgrades of Enterprise model updates, utilization, and all the opposite key options provided by the Azure Marketplace platform. This will remove a variety of administration overhead, which in any other case prospects must handle manually.
The preview for this new providing shall be out there early subsequent yr.
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Find out extra about this strategic partnership from Thomas Graf, Co-founder, and CTO of Isovalent.
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