Kubernetes Networking Isn’t What You Think It Is

📅 Date: March 10, 2026, 07:30 pm
🎙️ Speaker: Alexander Ivanov – platform engineering and reliability expert with over 20 years of experience in networking, cloud infrastructure, and distributed systems.

🔐 About the event:

This event will be held in English and is part of the DevOps User group.

AGENDA:
Kubernetes networking looks simple on the surface—Pods get IPs, Services load balance, and everything just works. But beneath that simplicity lies a surprisingly complex data plane built on iptables, kernel primitives, CNI plugins, and increasingly eBPF. In this talk, Alexander Ivanov will go beyond the usual diagrams and explain how packets actually move inside a cluster, why kube-proxy becomes a bottleneck at scale, and how eBPF-based solutions like Cilium radically improve performance, visibility, and security.

We will also explore why service meshes like Istio and Linkerd exist, what real problems they solve, and how the Kubernetes Gateway API reshapes the boundary between ingress, platform teams, and application developers. If you think Kubernetes networking is just “Pods talk to Pods,” this session will challenge that assumption.

>> Q&A session follows

Registration: The event is free but pre-registration is required.

🎯 Suitable for:

• Platform engineers
• Infrastructure and cloud specialists
• DevOps professionals
• Anyone interested in deep Kubernetes networking concepts

🤝 Sponsors:

DraftKings

ℹ️ Organizer:

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