Calculating The Kubernetes Integration Tax: What Your DIY Networking Stack Actually Costs

It was 11:47pm on a Thursday night, and a senior platform engineer at a large North American bank was rolling back a ‘simple’ configuration change. The change itself was small, a routine update approved through the usual review process, but when it was applied, pods began cycling and connections started dropping. For the next three seconds, mobile banking sessions already mid-transaction dropped. Customer support lit up. The incident review the next morning spent most of its time arguing about how the change had been approved. Almost no one asked the harder question: why a configuration change in one place broke something seemingly unrelated.

That question rarely gets a clean answer. What looks like a single layer is usually one knot in a stack of five to seven products including a CNI, network policy, service mesh, observability, threat detection and compliance tooling that come from different vendors and were never designed to operate as one system. Each one works. The gaps between them are where the risk, and the cost, lives.

This is just one example of the Kubernetes integration tax.

What is the Kubernetes Integration Tax?

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PP108: How to Build and Sustain a Successful Zero Trust Project

In theory, a zero trust initiative seems straightforward: you just need the right tools and maybe some whiteboard sessions to work out the architecture. In practice, our guests note that zero trust “unfolds inside organizations filled with legacy systems, political friction, budget constraints, and competing priorities.” Without accounting for those complications, a zero trust project... Read more »

ARP Issues in EVPN Centralized Routing Design

Adding IRB to a EVPN MAC-VRFs (the fancy way of saying stretched VLANs) seems like a no-brainer:

  • Add IP addresses to VLAN interfaces
  • Optionally add a shared anycast gateway
  • Declare “Mission Accomplished” (and try to ignore the inevitable phone call at 2 AM on a Sunday night)

Making that work in a multi-vendor environment is even more fun1, as I sadly discovered when creating the EVPN lab exercises or trying to figure out why some EVPN implementations were failing netlab EVPN integration tests.

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D2D

It's a new space race with a number of satellite operators pushing out LEO satellite services that operate directly to hand-held devices, or D2D.

D2D

t's a new space race with a number of satellite operators pushing out LEO satellite services that operate directly to hand-held devices, or D2D.

You cannot sell AI written software

You may have seen it too. This trend of “I wrote some software to solve a problem. I think it’s pretty great. Does anyone have any feedback?”. Maybe it’s a budget app. Or some company management thingy, tracking sales. Or invoicing.

Maybe you take a look. It looks pretty slick. But then you get a feeling of uncanny valley. It’s just not right. Maybe you can’t even put your finger on it.

I’m not an accountant, so when I see some accounting software do something in a different way, it’s interesting. Why is it that way? What can I learn from the fact that a professional thinks it should be this way?

You already know what’s weird about it, if nothing else because of the title of this post. The software works this way because the LLM wrote it that way. There’s no reason. It’s not even wrong.

How do you give “feedback” on that? My feedback would be that you don’t understand the problem you’re trying to solve, and have shown no sign you intend to understand it, so how could you possibly think you can solve it?

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Worth Reading 050426


What can we learn about QUIC deployments just by listening to unsolicited QUIC traffic? This question becomes specifically exciting since QUIC aims for enhanced privacy by obfuscating metadata.

 


Securing AI means securing all the AI layers and throughout the lifecycle: data, model, and applications, in training and in inference.

 


According to a Reuters report, Meta is installing tracking software on its employees’ work computers. The tool, called Model Capability Initiative (MCI), will log mouse movements, clicks, and keystrokes. It will also take occasional screenshots of employees’ screens.

 


Despite its usage, the behaviour of BGP-based scrubbers is not well understood, such as whether scrubbers are always on-path or activated on-demand.

 


The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has officially endorsed passkeys as the default authentication standard, marking the first time the agency has told consumers to move away from passwords entirely.

NB573: Cisco Open-Sources OpenClaw Protection; T-Mobile Taps Starlink for Broadband Redundancy

Take a Network Break! It’s a busy show this week. We start with follow-up on Anthropic’s Project Glasswing, router bans, and end-of-engineering/end-of-support date changes for Fortinet’s FortiOSv7.4. Our Red Alert warns of 13 critical CVEs in the Linux kernel (all of which can be addressed by updating to version 7). On the news front, Cisco... Read more »

SONiC Part II: Deploy a SONiC Switch Clos Topology

 

Introduction

 

This chapter explains how to create and deploy a simple SONiC-based Clos topology in WSL using Containerlab. First, we open VS Code from WSL to create and edit a topology definition file. Next, we build the topology by defining nodes (SONiC switches and Linux hosts) and the links between them. Before deploying the lab, we verify the wiring with Containerlab’s built-in topology graph. Finally, we deploy the topology and validate access to the nodes using both a Linux shell and the SONiC CLI (vtysh).

Phase 1: Integrate VS Code with WSL




There are a couple of ways to use VS Code with WSL. In this lab, we launch VS Code from the WSL terminal using code .. The first time you run this command, VS Code installs the VS Code Server components inside WSL and then opens a VS Code window connected to the Linux environment. After the installation completes, running code . from any directory opens that folder directly in VS Code.

nwkt@Toni:~$ code .

Updating VS Code Server to version 034f571df509819cc10b0c8129f66ef77a542f0e

Removing previous installation...

Installing VS Code Server for Linux x64 (034f571df509819cc10b0c8129f66ef77a542f0e)

Downloading: 100%

Unpacking: 100%

Unpacked 3505 files and folders to /home/nwkt/.vscode-server/bin/034f571df509819cc10b0c8129f66ef77a542f0e.

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SwiNOG 41: It Was Nice to Be Back

Last week’s SwiNOG was (as expected) great fun at a phenomenal location, starting with the first slide of the first presentation: “6 Stages of Network De-sh*tification”. I particularly loved the “talk less, chat more” schedule. The longer breaks gave us plenty of time to catch up with old friends and discuss interesting, sometimes completely unexpected, topics. For example, I learned that SIP MESSAGE is used to carry SMS messages these days.

As much as I loved chatting with fellow networking engineers, I also found these presentations highly interesting:

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Simple Wireguard VPN Setup with wg-easy

Simple Wireguard VPN Setup with wg-easy

WireGuard is a modern VPN protocol that is fast, lightweight, and much simpler to set up compared to other options like OpenVPN. It runs in the Linux kernel, uses modern cryptography, and the configuration is just a few lines, which makes it a great choice for personal use.

The problem is, even though WireGuard itself is simple, managing peers can get tedious. You have to generate key pairs, edit config files, hand out configs to each device, and keep track of who has access to what. If you have a few family members or friends who want to use your VPN, this quickly becomes a hassle.

This is where wg-easy can help. It is a simple open-source web UI that sits on top of WireGuard and takes care of all the boring bits for you. You can add or remove clients with a single click, generate QR codes for mobile devices, and see who is connected, all from a clean web interface.

In this post, I will walk you through how to set up wg-easy so you can have your own self-hosted VPN running in just a few minutes.

Lab Topology

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Rolling the Root Key

In October 2026 the Key-Signing Key of the DNS Root Zone will rolled to a new value. Can we measure how well DNS Resolvers that perform DNSSEC validation are prepared for this change in the trusted root key?

Rolling the Root Key

In October 2026 the Key-Signing Key of the DNS Root Zone will rolled to a new value. Can we measure how well DNS Resolvers that perform DNSSEC validation are prepared for this change in the trusted root key?

teknik tenis, dasar tenis lapangan, cara bermain tenis, tips tenis untuk pemula, latihan tenis dasar

Tenis lapangan merupakan olahraga yang sangat populer dan menyenangkan untuk dimainkan. Baik bagi pemula maupun yang sudah berpengalaman, menguasai teknik tenis dasar adalah kunci untuk bermain dengan efektif dan meningkatkan performa di lapangan. Artikel ini akan membahas beberapa teknik dasar tenis lapangan yang wajib dipahami oleh setiap pemain.

Mengapa Menguasai Teknik Dasar Tenis Penting?

Penguasaan teknik dasar memberikan keuntungan besar, seperti:

  • Meningkatkan presisi pukulan
  • Mengurangi risiko cedera
  • Membangun kepercayaan diri di lapangan
  • Mempermudah pengembangan teknik lanjutan di masa depan

Tanpa menguasai teknik dasar, sulit untuk memainkan tenis secara maksimal dan konsisten.

Teknik Dasar Tenis Lapangan

Berikut ini adalah beberapa teknik dasar tenis lapangan yang penting untuk dipelajari dan dilatih secara rutin.

1. Posisi dan Sikap Siap (Ready Position)

Sikap siap adalah posisi awal yang harus diambil oleh pemain sebelum menerima bola. Posisi ini sangat penting karena mempermudah gerak dan respon berikutnya.

  • Berdiri dengan posisi kaki sedikit lebih lebar dari bahu
  • Tekuk lutut sedikit agar tubuh lebih lentur dan siap bergerak
  • Pegang raket dengan tangan dominan, tangan lainnya membantu menstabilkan
  • Fokuskan pandangan ke arah lawan dan bola

2. Pegangan Raket (Grip)

Memegang raket dengan benar menentukan kekuatan dan arah pukulan. Ada beberapa jenis pegangan yang wajib dipahami:

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