Networking
17 items tagged with "networking"
Tutorials3
How to expose Kubernetes services with an Ingress and TLS
Route external HTTP traffic to services using an Ingress controller, host and path rules, and automatic TLS.
How to design a VPC with public and private subnets on AWS
Build a secure AWS VPC with public and private subnets, NAT, and route tables using Terraform.
How to design a VPC and firewall rules on Google Cloud
Build a custom-mode VPC on Google Cloud with subnets, firewall rules, and Cloud NAT for private workloads.
Benchmarks3
iperf Network Benchmark
Active network measurement tool that generates TCP, UDP, and SCTP traffic between two hosts to measure achievable bandwidth, jitter, and packet loss.
netperf Network Benchmark
Network performance tool measuring both bulk-transfer throughput and request/response transaction rates, used to characterize latency-sensitive workloads.
Cloud Egress Cost Efficiency Benchmark
Measures the cost and volume of data leaving cloud environments, attributing egress spend to flows, regions, and services to surface optimization targets.
FAQs9
What is a service mesh?
A service mesh is an infrastructure layer that manages communication between microservices, handling traffic routing, load balancing, retries, encrypt...
What is a Kubernetes ingress controller?
An ingress controller is a component that implements Kubernetes Ingress resources, routing external HTTP and HTTPS traffic to services inside the clus...
What is a Kubernetes service?
A Kubernetes Service is an abstraction that gives a stable network identity and address to a dynamic set of pods, since pods are ephemeral and their I...
What is the difference between HTTP/2 and HTTP/3?
HTTP/2 introduced multiplexing of multiple requests over a single TCP connection, header compression, and server push, reducing latency compared with ...
What is TLS and how does it secure connections?
Transport Layer Security (TLS) is the protocol that encrypts data in transit, providing confidentiality, integrity, and server authentication for HTTP...
What is DNS and how does it work?
The Domain Name System (DNS) translates human-readable names like example.com into the IP addresses machines use to route traffic. A resolver queries ...
What is the difference between TCP and UDP?
TCP is a connection-oriented transport protocol that guarantees ordered, reliable delivery using handshakes, acknowledgments, retransmission, and flow...
What is a CDN?
A content delivery network (CDN) is a geographically distributed set of edge servers that cache and serve content close to users, reducing latency and...
What is a reverse proxy?
A reverse proxy is a server that sits in front of backend servers and forwards client requests to them, returning the responses as if it were the orig...