Author • Speaker • Instructor
Nico Vibert
Principal Technical Marketing Engineer
Nico Vibert is a Principal Technical Marketing Engineer at Isovalent, the company behind the open-source cloud-native solution Cilium. Prior to joining Isovalent, Nico worked in many different roles - operations and support, design and architecture, and technical pre-sales - at companies such as HashiCorp, VMware, and Cisco. In his current role, Nico focuses primarily on creating content to make networking a more approachable field and regularly speaks at events like KubeCon and Cisco Live. Nico has held over 15 networking certifications, including the Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert CCIE (# 22990). Nico is the co-author of the "Cilium: Up and Running" O'Reilly book and is the Lead Subject Matter Expert on the Cilium Certified Associate (CCA) certification.
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From Pods to Fabric: Unlocking Seamless Networking with Cisco ACI & Isovalent
Dive deeper into Kubernetes networking with Cisco ACI and the Isovalent platform, powered by Cilium and eBPF. Explore pod communication, VM connectivity, traffic management, and best practices—all backed by live demos and expert insights.
Nico Vibert, Principal Technical Marketing Engineer
Garry Richardson, Sr. Solutions Engineer
Steve Sharman, Technical Solutions Architect
Isovalent Discovery Workshop: A Fast-Track to Cilium for Network Engineers
Connecting Kubernetes to the network and meshing clusters together is complex—but Isovalent makes it simple with Cilium. Want to see how? In under 45 minutes, get a quick, hands-on overview of how Cilium can streamline Kubernetes networking for you.
Raphaël Pinson, Senior Technical Marketing Engineer
Nico Vibert, Principal Technical Marketing Engineer
Fast-Tracking Your Journey to Kubernetes for Network Engineers
Watch this exclusive interactive panel with networking experts, where they unveil key lessons and best practices to fast-track your journey to Kubernetes. This is a great opportunity to gain valuable insights and practical tips to power up to KuberNetworker.
Nico Vibert, Principal Technical Marketing Engineer
Raymond de Jong, Field CTO
Christoph Puhl, Sr. Sales Engineer
Isovalent and Cisco ACI: Best of Both Worlds
Learn how to integrate Kubernetes with Cisco ACI using the Isovalent platform, powered by Cilium and eBPF. Explore BGP, observability, end-to-end security, and experience demo-packed insights from networking experts!
This webinar is part of an Isovalent and Cisco ACI: Best of Both World Series. In Session 2, we’ll dive deeper into networking.
Nico Vibert, Principal Technical Marketing Engineer
Garry Richardson, Sr. Solutions Engineer
Steve Sharman, Technical Solutions Architect
Networking and eBPF Predictions for 2025 and Beyond
Learn about what 2025 has in store in the realms of eBPF, networking and security in the 2025 Isovalent predictions!
Nico Vibert, Principal Technical Marketing Engineer
Per Flow Selective Encryption with Isovalent Enterprise
Selectively encrypt traffic between workloads rather than the whole cluster traffic using Isovalent Enterprise for Cilium
Nico Vibert, Principal Technical Marketing Engineer
Isovalent Enterprise for Cilium: BFD for BGP
Nico Vibert, Principal Technical Marketing Engineer
Overcoming Kubernetes IP Address Exhaustion with Cilium
In this blog post, learn how Cilium can overcome IP address exhaustion issues you may face in your Kubernetes clusters.
Nico Vibert, Principal Technical Marketing Engineer
What’s new with Cilium and Isovalent Enterprise for Cilium 1.16!
Join the creators of eBPF and Cilium to discover the exciting and new features in Cilium and Isovalent Enterprise for Cilium 1.16, including selective encryption, Egress GW IPAM, Gateway API GAMMA and more. Watch the recording!
Thomas Graf, CTO & Co-Founder Isovalent, Co-Creator Cilium, CTO & VP Engineering Cisco Security
Nico Vibert, Principal Technical Marketing Engineer
BFD: A Networking Beacon for Highly Available Kubernetes Clusters
With Isovalent Enterprise for Cilium, you can leverage BFD to detect defective links and avoid long convergence times.
Nico Vibert, Principal Technical Marketing Engineer
Cilium 1.16 - High-Performance Networking With Netkit, Gateway API Gamma Support, BGPV2 and More!
Cilium 1.16 is out! Including Netkit for the veth replacement for high-performance networking, Gateway API GAMMA support, BGPv2 and more!
Nico Vibert, Principal Technical Marketing Engineer
Local Redirect Policy
With Cilium Local Redirect Policy (LRP), you can force traffic to stay on the node, improving performance and reducing latency.
Nico Vibert, Principal Technical Marketing Engineer