Guides for network

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Exploring Network Policies with Cilium

In this guide, we’ll explore Cilium, an eBPF-powered CNI for Kubernetes, and how you can leverage Cillum network policies to secure cluster communications.

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Why are network policies in Kubernetes so hard to understand?

We often hear that network policies are too complex to understand. In this tutorial, we will take a look at how network policies work by exploring concrete examples.

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Traffic management and deployment strategies with Istio

In part 2 of this introductory Istio series, we shift our attention toward traffic management with a basic demonstration of letting traffic into our cluster.

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Istio Security Essentials: Authorization, Headers, and mTLS

In part 3 of this introductory series, we look at the essentials of Istio security with a deeper look at authorization policies, learn header-based access controls, and enable mutual TLS for enhanced service-to-service communication.

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Deploy your first Kubernetes application through CLI

Deploy your first Kubernetes app with ease using kubectl. This step-by-step guide provides a smooth introduction to cluster configuration, resource definition, deployment, and testing.

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Restoring old network style instances

Resolve networking issues when restoring a snapshot from the old-style networking to the new-style setup. Follow our guide to make necessary changes to network files for proper routing on the new instance.

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Networking 101 - IP Packets

You may have heard the term "packet" when talking about networks. But what exactly is a packet and how are they used within a network?

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Networking 101 - IP Addressing

What is an IP address? You will no doubt have seen IP addresses many times, as a series of digits like this: 10.2.3.4. So what does that represent and how does IP addressing and subnetting work?

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Fixing Docker MTU Issues on Ubuntu

Learn how to optimize Docker's MTU settings to prevent connectivity issues and enhance your Docker experience, especially on Ubuntu systems.

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Using Civo.com to serve your DNS/domain name records

How to configure your domain registration to use Civo's DNS service nameservers

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Configuring DNS/domain name records on Civo.com

Setting up all the DNS records your domain name to be hosted by Civo's DNS nameservers

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