Enhancing K8s Networking with SmartNICs
Talkat KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2020 Virtual · on Friday, 2020-11-20· at 15:10· Intrado Virtual Event Platform,·
summary
Argues that bare‑metal Kubernetes at the edge plus SmartNIC offloads delivers deterministic 5G‑grade networking by moving OVS/DPDK flows, inline forwarding between PFs and VFs, and ACLs/eBPF enforcement into the NIC, cutting host CPU and eliminating host datapath copies. Describes SmartNIC types (SoC, ASIC+FPGA, full FPGA), cites QAT for encryption/compression and GPUs for ML, and shows this disaggregation lets Kubernetes orchestrate workloads while hardware handles packet processing.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Introduction and agenda
- 1:09Edge computing overview
- 2:45Bare metal at the edge
- 6:37Kubernetes and edge trends
- 8:57Networking model challenges
- 14:16SmartNICs and categorization
- 19:06Infrastructure offloading
- 23:59Future outlook and summary
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