Some Assembly Required: IKEA Private Cloud, Cloud Native Networking
summary
IKEA Retail (Ingka Group) runs a hyper‑converged private cloud built with Kubernetes, Cilium (plus Hubble), BIRD/BGP, LB IPAM and ECMP, Metal3, Argo CD and Ansible to move load balancing off expensive hardware and give predictable egress addresses to legacy systems. ClusterPool v2 reduces IPv4 waste so nodes can host 500+ pods per node, Cilium Ingress and LB IPAM eliminated hardware load balancers, and Egress Gateway delivers predictable egress IPs — all deployed in production.
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chapters (12)
- 0:00Introduction
- 2:05Legacy infrastructure challenges
- 4:56Cloud-native networking foundation
- 9:16IKEA Cloud Native stack
- 12:24Verifying networking with BGP and ECMP
- 13:48IPAM and Ingress in Cilium
- 15:57Egress Gateway for multi-cluster
- 17:44IPv4 exhaustion with ClusterPool V2
- 19:13Q&A: Cilium vs Nginx and Calico
- 21:45Q&A: Service mesh and adoption
- 23:47Q&A: Timeline and team buy-in
- 25:14Closing remarks
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