Calico Open Source delivers robust, highly scalable, and performing container networking and security solutions for AKS
SAN FRANCISCO, April 20, 2022 / PRNewswire/-Tigera, creator and administrator of Calico Open Source, the most widely used container networking and security solution and foundation for zero-trust workload security, today announced the availability of the Calico Container Networking Interface (CNI) for Azure Toilet Service (AKS), Microsoft’s managed Toilet service. In addition to using Calico’s networking and security policy engine, AKS users can now use Calico Open Source as a CNI for stable, scalable and higher performance networking for their environments with the Windows option , eBPF, and Linux data plane.
The release of Calico CNI follows Microsoft’s BYO (Bring Your Own) CNI initiative, which allows businesses to choose their own CNI to meet their unique needs. Administrators will receive access to full support from Tigera for Calico Open Source, and can deploy Tigera’s Calico Cloud-Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP) for active zero-trust based container security throughout the build, deploy and runtime stages through their Azure Marketplace portal.
“With Calico Open Source under the Bring Your Own CNI (BYOCNI) initiative, Tigera is the first to deliver a robust, efficient, interoperable and high-performance CNI solution to AKS users,” said Amit Gupta, vice president of business and product development. management, Tigera. “Organizations that rely on AKS for their Kubernetes service can now benefit from Calico CNI for networking and security for all of their cloud-native applications. In addition, we are pleased to offer to users of AKS benefits Calico CNAPP for their deployments, to reduce application attack surface unreliability, detect known and day -to -day threats and actively reduce risks from exposure. “
Improving performance and increasing securityCalico Open Source serves as the foundation for zero-trust workload security for thousands of companies. Calico CNI is a widely used container networking interface recognized for performance capabilities, scalability, flexibility, power, reliability and support for multiple data planes including eBPF, Linux and Windows. Now, users can build zero-trust workload security, access a leading runtime threat defense solution, and achieve container security on the foundation of Calico CNI in AKS. Users also have the ability to properly deploy Calico CNAPP for comprehensive protection for their containerized AKS workloads.
Calico as CNI for AKS will address pain points across the industry and provide users with key benefits.
- Best in class security and traffic throughput: Calico’s rich security policy model makes it easy to restrict communication between endpoints as needed. With built-in support for WireGuard encryption, securing pod-to-pod traffic across the network includes overall lower CPU usage and occupancy and higher performance. Depending on user preference, Calico uses either Windows, eBPF or Linux data plane to deliver high-performance networking.
- Choice and flexibility: Whichever data plane they use, users receive the same easy -to -use, base networking, security policy and IP address management capabilities that have made Calico Open Source the most trusted networking and security policy solution for mission-critical cloud-native applications.
- Ease of use: Calico is the most suitable solution to reduce IP address depletion in AKS as one of the most deployed CNIs in the market offering zero-trust for workload security. Calico CNI’s IP address management (IPAM) plugin allocates IP addresses for pods from one or more configurable IP address sets, dynamically allocating small blocks of IPs per node if required. The result is a better use of IP address space compared to many other CNI IPAM plugins, including the host local IPAM plugin, used in many container networking solutions.
Unified networking capabilities in diverse cloud environmentsFor businesses using multi-cloud or hybrid environments, Calico CNI ensures that these organizations have a single security policy starting with AKS, Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), GCP, Rancher, Red Hat OpenShift, VMware Tanzu, Upstream Kubernetes and other supported distributions without the need to be familiar with an additional CNI plugin. Users can have unified networking capabilities in diverse cloud environments, using Calico CNI IPAM capabilities in the same way in AKS as they would in other managed cloud distributions.
Pricing and availabilityProject Calico is a major open-source solution, and there is no cost for using Calico CNI, Calico IPAM or Calico networking and security policies in Azure AKS. For more comprehensive protection, AKS users can easily upgrade to Calico CNAPP through the Azure Marketplace to prevent, identify, troubleshoot, and automatically reduce the risks of exposure to security issues in stages of build, deploy, and runtime. To learn more, watch an on-demand replay of Tigera’s recent webinar with Microsoft. Users can also sign up for a free trial of Calico Cloud in the Azure Marketplace.
About TigeraTigera provides the industry’s only active Cloud-Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP) with full-stack observability for containers, Kubernetes, and cloud. The company’s platform prevents, detects, troubleshoots, and automatically mitigates the risks of exposure to security issues at the build, deploy, and runtime stages. Tigera delivers its platform as a fully managed SaaS (Calico Cloud) or a self-managed service (Calico Enterprise). Its open-source offering, Calico Open Source, is the most accepted container networking and security solution. The Tigera platform defines security and observability as code to ensure consistent implementation of security policies, enabling DevOps, platform, and security teams to protect workloads, detect threats, achieve ongoing compliance, and troubleshoot service issues in real time.
It enables more than 100M containers on 2M+ nodes in 166 countries, supports Calico software across all major cloud providers and Kubernetes distributions, and is used by leading companies including AT&T, Discover, Merck, ServiceNow, HanseMerkur, RealPage , L3Harris, and Mindbody.
Contact:Katherine Benfield for TigeraLumina [email protected]
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