Innovate Summit 2017Container Network PerformanceKarloZatylny

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Containers - So hot right now

• You’rebuildingyourapplicationandyouhavequestions.• Whichorchestrator?• Whichcontainertype?• WhichOperatingSystem?• Whichnetworkinglayer?

• Flannel,Docker,Calico,... ?

SolarWinds CMON - It’s a free tool!

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Who is talking to what?

• Withinyourapplication,youalsowanttoknowwhichcontainersarecommunicatingwitheachotherforoptimaldeploymentandsecurity.

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Price paid for software networks

• Containersoftwareaddsalayerfornetworkrouting,DNS,andothernetworkfunctions

Containers Container Networking Layer

Physical Network

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Push as many bits as you can

Whenyouhaveimportantbandwidthneeds,youneedtoknowhowmuchyoucanpushfromonecontainertoanother.Wherethereissoftware,therearelimits!

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How much can you send and receive?

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Playing chess with containers

CMONObservationstellyouwheretoplacecontainersrelativetoeachothertominimizelatency.

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It’s on DockerHub!

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Open issues on GitHub - we’re open!

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https://github.com/solarwinds/containers

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