Welcome to the “Networking” microconference of Plumbers 2016. This track was named “Network Virtualization” in previous years. Upon request we are opening up the spectrum for this year. We have however decided to define a list of interesting networking topics that we want to focus on. We will therefore favour discussion topics which fall into the following list of topics:
IPv6
Network Virtualization
Security
As in previous years, we are enforcing a hard limit of 3 slides per presentation to ensure focus on discussion over monologues.
Marketing pitches will not be tolerated and will be shut down. (If you feel the urge to put your company logo onto slides you are probably in the wrong room anyway)
If you are interested in presenting on this topic then please list yourself in the section “Proposed Topics” below.
Network Virtualization
Preparing the network stack for multi tenant container clusters
Reducing the weight of network namespaces
Improved VRF implementation - netns + ip rules? nft?
Intelligent network processing at the data center edge
Programmable data path (tc cls/act, eBPF, OVS, nft, …)
Encapsulation, overlays, service chaining (VXLAN, Geneve, GUE, NVGRE, NSH, …)
Hardware support - programming network hardware through the kernel
Protocol development
Hardware Accelerated I/O Virtualization
Virtualizing accelerators for NFVs
IPv6
Performance
How to treat IPv6 as an equal citizen? Consolidation of functionality: common IPv6/IPv4 routing? IPv6 support for underlays,
IPv6 in data centers - Can we solve the addressing problem
Kernel gaps blocking further adoptions?
Logical IPv6 overlays to provide network virtualization without encapsulation
Security
Who we want to see
Kernel hackers
NetDev crowd
Network virtualization fanatics
Community driven vendors
Kernel and networking hungry DevOps
People of the Banana Republic
List your proposed topics below:
The schedule will be announced closer to the event.
