UDP in K8S: Signed, Sealed, but Delivered?

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Describes real production UDP failures observed running 50+ microservices on Kubernetes, traces the root cause to a bug in kube-proxy, and explains the mitigation and eventual fix. Covers Kubernetes networking internals and practical debugging techniques for UDP issues in K8s clusters.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 0:31Obligatory UDP Joke
3. 3:02KBS Networking Primer
4. 9:59What went wrong?
5. 10:40How did we figure it out?
6. 12:08Mitigation
7. 12:28Why did it happen?

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