libp2p and the cloud

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libp2p modular stack provides mdns for local discovery, a DHT for peer lookup, a connection manager and muxer, and protocol handlers (identity, ping, bitswap, pubsub) that IPFS actually uses. Connections resolve by querying the DHT for a peer’s announced multiaddrs and then dialling using the peer ID plus address. Kubernetes breaks this model because IPs and round‑robin load balancing send dials to pods without the expected peer ID, causing connection refusals; no cloud solution is offered.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 0:15A modular peer- to-peer networking stack
3. 0:39What is a libp2p peer?
4. 2:46So what about the cloud?
5. 4:33What is the solution?

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