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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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A Season Of Cilium: One Surprise Every Day

We now have badges for Isovalent certified Cilium hands-on labs. Collect all four of them over the holidays.

  • Raphaël Pinson, Senior Technical Marketing Engineer

  • Nico Vibert, Principal Technical Marketing Engineer

KubeCon North America 2023 Wrap-Up

In this blog post, Duffie Cooley and Nico Vibert share their thoughts on what was a fantastic KubeCon North America in Chicago.

  • Duffie Cooley, Field CTO Isovalent & CNCF Ambassador

  • Nico Vibert, Principal Technical Marketing Engineer

Introducing the Cilium Certified Associate Certification

In this brief video, learn about the newly announced Cilium Certified Associate certification program, the first CNCF certification for Cilium.

  • Nico Vibert, Principal Technical Marketing Engineer

All About The New CNCF Cilium Certified Associate (CCA) Certification!

All About The New CNCF Cilium Certified Associate (CCA) Certification!

  • Liz Rice, Chief Open Source Officer

  • Nico Vibert, Principal Technical Marketing Engineer

Isovalent Enterprise for Cilium 1.14: introducing Cilium Multi-Network

Learn how you can connect Kubernetes Pods to multiple interfaces with Isovalent Enterprise for Cilium 1.14 !

  • Nico Vibert, Principal Technical Marketing Engineer

Video Walkthrough: Mutual Authentication with Cilium

mTLS and Mutual Authentication are key security requirements for micro-services running in Kubernetes. The easiest way to run Mutual Authentication? Cilium.

  • Nico Vibert, Principal Technical Marketing Engineer

Layer 2 Announcements with Cilium

In this video, learn about a brand new Cilium feature, released in Cilium 1.14: the ability to announce Services over Layer 2!

  • Nico Vibert, Principal Technical Marketing Engineer

Learn Cilium the Easy Way with the Cilium Learning Paths

In this blog post, learn which kind of Cilium user you are or might become!

  • Nico Vibert, Principal Technical Marketing Engineer

BIG TCP over IPv4 with Cilium

In this video, learn about a new feature - Cilium BGP TCP ! After BIG TCP for IPv6 support was introduced in Cilium 1.13, BIG TCP for IPv4 is now available with Cilium 1.14 !

  • Nico Vibert, Principal Technical Marketing Engineer

Cilium Gateway API - TLS Passthrough

In this video, learn about a new Cilium 1.14 Feature - support for the Gateway API TLSRoute resource and the ability to support end-to-end encryption with TLS Passthrough!

  • Nico Vibert, Principal Technical Marketing Engineer

Cilium 1.14 Feature: eBGP Multihop

In this video, Nico Vibert explains what eBGP Multihop is and how you can use it with Cilium 1.14!

  • Nico Vibert, Principal Technical Marketing Engineer

Cilium 1.14 Feature: Envoy as a Daemonset

In this video, learn about a new Cilium 1.14 feature - Envoy can now be deployed as a DaemonSet instead of embedded inside Cilium. Watch the video to learn more!

  • Nico Vibert, Principal Technical Marketing Engineer