SDN, NFV and Container Networking
Disclaimer These series will cover some of the notes I’ve been gathering on networking performance over the last years. Some of those will be specific to Azure, but still useful … Continue reading Cloud Networking Performance (I): Cloud Provider Offloads
VyOS is an open source network operating system that can be installed on physical hardware or a virtual machine on your own server, or a cloud platform. It is based … Continue reading Active-active route-based Vyos 1.2 to Azure VPN (with BGP!)
We can initially divide Azure Networking offerings into two big groups: Resources that can be deployed within Virtual Networks and those can’t be deployed in Virtual Networks. In this article … Continue reading Azure Virtual Networking Basics
On our last post about UDP hole-punching we learned how we could use UDP traffic to exploit the stateful nature of firewalls, thus bypassing blocks for incoming connections. That was … Continue reading Firewall bypass: Encapsulating traffic inside UDP
One of Clarke’s laws says that any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic; and with container technologies I find that to be true more often than not. Container networking might … Continue reading Container networking basics
During these holidays I’ve spent some time working on setting up a VPN between my on-premises network and an Azure VNet. In order to setup the connectivity I have used … Continue reading Azure Routed VPN with StrongSwan on Linux
