Connecting virtual machines in the cloud age
summary
Describes running VMs alongside containers by building on Kubernetes networking with four concrete pieces: a declarative node network layer using NodeNetworkState and NodeNetworkConfigurationPolicy (via nmstate), logical networks exposed to users as NetworkAttachmentDefinition objects (Multus), scheduler hooks that place workloads on nodes with available SR‑IOV or VLAN resources, and two VM binding modes — bridge binding (DHCP into the VM) and masquerade/iptables binding (port forwarding for sidecars). Demonstrates these components working together; SR‑IOV is fastest, bridge next, iptables last.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Intro
- 1:04What is this about?
- 1:39Why should I care?
- 2:37Networking Evolution
- 5:51Four Pillars of Networking
- 6:33Node Network Configuration
- 9:19Logical Network Definition
- 11:21Smart Scheduing
- 13:57VM Binding Mechanism
- 18:32Takeaways
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