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Cilium ztunnel – native mTLS for Cilium on Azure Kubernetes Service BYOCNI
At KubeCon Europe 2026, the Cilium project announced native mTLS support for Cilium via ztunnel. -> https://cilium.io/blog/2026/03/23/native-mtls-cilium/ Cilium’s ztunnel implementation is a fork of Istio’s ztunnel, reengineered to directly integrate it with the Cilium control plane and SPIRE as a certificate authority. Bringing ztunnel to Cilium is a joint effort by Isovalent and Microsoft. In…
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Performance comparison Cilium native routing on Azure Kubernetes Service BYOCNI
As a follow-up on the series about Cilium native routing on Azure Kubernetes Service BYOCNI, we focus in today’s blog post on the performance comparison between the different configurations. -> https://www.danielstechblog.io/an-experiment-enable-cilium-native-routing-on-azure-kubernetes-service-byocni-part-1/ -> https://www.danielstechblog.io/an-experiment-enable-cilium-native-routing-on-azure-kubernetes-service-byocni-part-2/ -> https://www.danielstechblog.io/an-experiment-enable-cilium-native-routing-on-azure-kubernetes-service-byocni-part-3/ BYOCNI – Cilium VXLAN encapsulation BYOCNI – Cilium VXLAN encapsulation + WireGuard encryption BYOCNI – Cilium native routing + Wire…
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An experiment – Enable Cilium native routing on Azure Kubernetes Service BYOCNI – Part 3
This is the third and final part of a three-part series about “An experiment – Enable Cilium native routing on Azure Kubernetes Service BYOCNI”. -> https://www.danielstechblog.io/an-experiment-enable-cilium-native-routing-on-azure-kubernetes-service-byocni-part-1/ -> https://www.danielstechblog.io/an-experiment-enable-cilium-native-routing-on-azure-kubernetes-service-byocni-part-2/ We will focus today on how to enable Cilium native routing with Azure Route Server and BGP on Azure Kubernetes Service BYOCNI. Azure Route Server Azure Route…
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An experiment – Enable Cilium native routing on Azure Kubernetes Service BYOCNI – Part 2
This is the second part of a three-part series about “An experiment – Enable Cilium native routing on Azure Kubernetes Service BYOCNI”. -> https://www.danielstechblog.io/an-experiment-enable-cilium-native-routing-on-azure-kubernetes-service-byocni-part-1/ We will focus today on how to enable Cilium native routing with WireGuard Transparent Encryption on Azure Kubernetes Service BYOCNI. Enable Cilium native routing with WireGuard Transparent Encryption In this example,…
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An experiment – Enable Cilium native routing on Azure Kubernetes Service BYOCNI – Part 1
This is the first part of a three-part series about “An experiment – Enable Cilium native routing on Azure Kubernetes Service BYOCNI”. Cilium supports two routing modes, encapsulation and native routing. Due to its versatility of not depending on the underlying network, the encapsulation, also called tunneling, mode is the default one for most Cilium…
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Use Azure Log Alerts with Azure Data Explorer
Since July 2024, the Azure Log Alerts support for Azure Data Explorer is generally available, and you might be familiar with log alerts already by using them with Log Analytics or Application Insights. -> https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/?id=log-alerts-for-azure-data-explorer Hence, we will focus on specific configuration best practices and a hidden gem that allows you to easily write your…