BIG-IP Next SPK: a Kubernetes native ingress and egress gateway for Telco workloads

Kubernetes has a simplified networking model which was designed for general IT workloads which only use TCP/HTTP protocols, and a simplified networking model with a single IP address per POD (the s...
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Oct 27, 2024

Ulises_Alonso Nice Article! Just a fast question does the BIG-IP Next SPK replace the native kube-proxy and does it provide layer 7 HTTP ingress or something like nginx plus is needed for this ?