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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Hive Harmony: Kubernetes Networking Essentials - Networking Series Part 1

Part one of a a two-part workshop series designed exclusively for busy bee network engineers facing a cloud-native world.

  • Nico Vibert, Principal Technical Marketing Engineer

  • Raphaël Pinson, Senior Technical Marketing Engineer

  • Duffie Cooley, Field CTO Isovalent & CNCF Ambassador

  • Christopher Luciano, Sr. Solutions Engineer

KubeCon Europe 2024 Wrap-Up

In this KubeCon Europe 2024 wrap-up, find out why this KubeCon was a memorable occasion for Isovalent and the broader Cilium community.

  • Nico Vibert, Principal Technical Marketing Engineer

Cilium Multi-Network

With Cilium Multi-Networking, available in Isovalent Enterprise for Cilium, you can connect your Pod to multiple networks, without having to compromise on security and observability.

  • Nico Vibert, Principal Technical Marketing Engineer

Connecting Kubernetes clusters to your network with Cilium BGP

As Kubernetes becomes more pervasive in on- premise environments, users increasingly have both traditional applications and Cloud Native applications in their environments.

In order to connect them together and allow outside access, a mechanism to integrate Kubernetes and the existing network infrastructure is needed.

Cilium offers native support for BGP , exposing Kubernetes applications to the existing data center, without the need to install yet another tool.

  • Nico Vibert, Principal Technical Marketing Engineer

Kubernetes Networking and Cilium for Network Engineers

In this video, learn about the core Kubernetes networking requirements with our Cilium experts!

  • Nico Vibert, Principal Technical Marketing Engineer

  • Dan Finneran, Principal Community Advocate

Migrating from MetalLB to Cilium

In this blog post, you will learn how to migrate from MetalLB to Cilium for local service advertisement over Layer 2.

  • Nico Vibert, Principal Technical Marketing Engineer

BGP Community Support with Cilium

In this video, learn about a new Cilium 1.15 feature - support for BGP communities!

  • Nico Vibert, Principal Technical Marketing Engineer

BGP MD5 Authentication with Cilium

In this video, learn about a new Cilium 1.15 feature - MD5-based authentication of BGP sessions!

  • Nico Vibert, Principal Technical Marketing Engineer

gRPC Routing with Cilium Gateway API

In this video, learn about a new Cilium 1.15 feature - gRPC routing using Cilium Gateway API!

  • Nico Vibert, Principal Technical Marketing Engineer

Tutorial: Redirect, Rewrite, and Mirror HTTP with Cilium Gateway API

In this blog post, learn how you can use Cilium Gateway API to rewrite, redirect and mirror HTTP requests in Kubernetes!

  • Nico Vibert, Principal Technical Marketing Engineer

  • Amit Gupta, Senior Technical Marketing Engineer

Networking and eBPF Predictions for 2024 and Beyond

In this blog post, we will review some networking, security and observability predictions for 2024.

  • Nico Vibert, Principal Technical Marketing Engineer

An Introduction to Cilium Cluster Mesh

Raphaël Pinson and Nico Vibert sat down to discuss a detailed introduction as to what Cilium Cluster Mesh is, and how it can be applied to your workload.

  • Raphaël Pinson, Senior Technical Marketing Engineer

  • Nico Vibert, Principal Technical Marketing Engineer