How Meltwater migrated from the Amazon VPC CNI plugin to Cilium in K8s

In this talk Federico Hernandez and Simone Sciarrati will dive into how they performed the migration of the networking component for Meltwater’s production Kubernetes clusters - from the AWS VPC CNI plugin to Cilium.

Their team develops a platform on top of Kubernetes that serves 40+ teams, running 3000+ deployments and 10000+ pods utilising more than 8000 cores and 18TB memory, powering a large part of the Meltwater product.

During this presentation Federico and Simone will:

• Discuss the reasons behind the decision to migrate to Cilium
• Go into the details of the live migration, the challenges we faced before, during and after (yes, not everything went A-OK)
• Talk about the tooling they created to test the migration process and ensure the migration would be seamless

After a 30 minutes talk, there will be 15 minutes for Q&A. We’d like to encourage you to submit your questions in advance.

A recording of the webinar and related materials will be shared with webinar attendees afterwards.

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Speakers:
Federico Hernandez, Principal Engineer at Meltwater
Federico is working with the internal platform offering based on Kubernetes. Program committee member and track chair "Operations" for a couple of KubeCons.

Simone Sciarrati, Principal Engineer and Engineering Team Lead at Meltwater
Simone has been focusing on building an internal Kubernetes based platform at Meltwater to make life easier for their development teams.