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Survey Surfaces Myriad Kubernetes Networking Challenges

New survey data shows Kubernetes networking complexity rising, with teams struggling across observability, egress, multi-cluster security, and tool sprawl—highlighting the growing need for platform engineering and unified networking approaches ...

Mike Vizard | November 17, 2025 | cloud-native networking, container networking, debugging, devops, eBPF, egress control, Kubernetes clusters, Kubernetes networking, Kubernetes security, load balancing, microservices, multi-cluster networking, network management complexity, network transparency., observability, platform engineering, SRE

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OpenELB K8s Load Balancer Plugin Becomes CNCF Sandbox Project

An OpenELB load balancer that plugs into Kubernetes clusters has become a sandbox level project under the auspices of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). Originally developed by the KubeSphere community, OpenELB ...

Mike Vizard | December 17, 2021 | cncf, container networking, kubernetes, load balancing, OpenELB

Tuning K8s Performance and Cost With NGINX Ingress Metrics

There are load balancers, and then there are load balancers. Broadly speaking, there are two variations of NGINX: The first variation is open source with many contributors and an install base of—perhaps—billions ...

Amir Sharif | October 11, 2021 | kubernetes, load balancing, NGINX, Prometheus

Kong Updates Service Mesh to Replace Load Balancers

Kong today announced the general availability of version 1.4 of Kong Mesh that the company says could eliminate the need for traditional load balancers in decentralized IT environments running microservices-based applications. Marco ...

Mike Vizard | August 10, 2021 | Kong, Kong Mesh, load balancing, service mesh

Datawire Streamlines App Dev on Kubernetes Platforms

Datawire has added a Service Preview to a platform it created to manage application programming interfaces (APIs) for load balancing and ingress to a Kubernetes cluster. The Ambassador Edge Stack was launched ...