3.2 CNI Plugins - Calico, Flannel, Cilium and More

Explore different CNI implementations and their trade-offs. What CNI plugins do: IPAM, routing, network policy enforcement Popular CNI plugins comparison: Flannel: simple overlay network (VXLAN) Calico: BGP routing, network policy, performance Cilium: eBPF-based, advanced features, observability Weave: mesh network, encryption Installation and configuration considerations Performance implications: overhead, latency, throughput Cloud provider CNI: AWS VPC CNI, Azure CNI, GKE network Choosing the right CNI for your use case