Christopher Liljenstolpe is the founder and chief technology officer of Tigera, a provider of cloud native security and networking software. He formed Tigera to offer commercial support for Project Calico, a control plane he created for cloud native applications. In this episode of The New Stack Analysts podcast, TNS Managing Editor Joab Jackson and TNS contributing analyst Janakiram MSV talk with Liljenstolpe about Calico's creation, overlay networks, service meshes and IPv6. Key Takeaways: Originally created for OpenStack, Calico was designed to make it easy to get data packets from one part of the network to another, using the Internet technologies like IP routing, rather than switching, virtual networks, overlay networks or other complex approaches. Since this form of networking offers only a coarse-grained isolation across nodes, so Calico uses real-time distributed filtering engines to control which nodes can communicate with one another, in effect acting as a network policy enforcement tool. Anticipating containers, Calico was designed for very dynamic environments, and can manage hundreds of thousands of end-points that can change location at any time.
Christopher Liljenstolpe is the founder and chief technology officer of Tigera, a provider of cloud native security and networking software. He formed Tigera to offer commercial support for Project Calico, a control plane he created for cloud native applications.
In this episode of The New Stack Analysts podcast, TNS Managing Editor Joab Jackson and TNS contributing analyst Janakiram MSV talk with Liljenstolpe about Calico's creation, overlay networks, service meshes and IPv6.
Key Takeaways:
Originally created for OpenStack, Calico was designed to make it easy to get data packets from one part of the network to another, using the Internet technologies like IP routing, rather than switching, virtual networks, overlay networks or other complex approaches.
Since this form of networking offers only a coarse-grained isolation across nodes, so Calico uses real-time distributed filtering engines to control which nodes can communicate with one another, in effect acting as a network policy enforcement tool.
Anticipating containers, Calico was designed for very dynamic environments, and can manage hundreds of thousands of end-points that can change location at any time.