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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WireGuard Improvement in 1.14 - Support for L7 Policies

In this video, learn about a new Cilium 1.14 feature - support for WireGuard alongside L7 Network Policies!

  • Nico Vibert, Principal Technical Marketing Engineer

Cilium Custom BGP Timers

In this video, join Nico Vibert as he teaches you how to customize BGP timers using Cilium 1.14 !

  • Nico Vibert, Principal Technical Marketing Engineer

Cilium BGP Graceful Restart

In this video, Nico Vibert teaches you about BGP Graceful Restart with Cilium, and how the datapath continues to forward traffic during Agent restart, so there is no traffic disruption!

  • Nico Vibert, Principal Technical Marketing Engineer

Tutorial: How to Migrate to Cilium

In this series, learn how you can migrate to Cilium! First, let's learn about the migration approach and walk through an example migrating from Flannel to Cilium.

  • Nico Vibert, Principal Technical Marketing Engineer

Cilium Hubble Series (Part 1): Re-introducing Hubble

In this first post in this new Hubble series, learn about the Why/What/How of Hubble!

  • Nico Vibert, Principal Technical Marketing Engineer

Isovalent Enterprise for Cilium 1.13: SRv6 L3VPN, Overlapping CIDR Support, FromFQDN in Network Policy, Grafana plugin and more!

We are proud to announce Isovalent Enterprise for Cilium 1.13! Includes support for SRv6, ClusterMesh for overlapping CIDRs and much more!

  • Nico Vibert, Principal Technical Marketing Engineer

Tutorial: Cross-Namespace Routing with Cilium Gateway API

In this short tutorial, learn how you can centralize management of your Cilium Gateway API resources using cross-namespace routing.

  • Nico Vibert, Principal Technical Marketing Engineer

FromFQDN Support in Cilium Network Policy with Isovalent Enterprise for Cilium 1.13

In this new feature exclusive to Isovalent Cilium Enterprise 1.13.2, users can now filter traffic in ingress based on FQDN!

  • Nico Vibert, Principal Technical Marketing Engineer

KubeCon Europe 2023 Wrap-Up

KubeCon 2023 was a blast! Read our recap on how the event was like for the Cilium and Isovalent communiy.

  • Nico Vibert, Principal Technical Marketing Engineer

Cilium Gateway API - HTTP Response Header Modifier

In this short demo, we look at how the Cilium Gateway API can add, remove or edit HTTP Headers from responses to HTTP requests.

  • Nico Vibert, Principal Technical Marketing Engineer

Cilium Gateway API Cross-Namespace Routing

In this short demo, we look at how the Cilium Gateway API can be used across multiple namespaces.

  • Nico Vibert, Principal Technical Marketing Engineer

Back to Basics - L7 Flow Visibility

In this short demo, we look at the 2 options to achieve Layer 7 flow observability using Cilium and Hubble.

  • Nico Vibert, Principal Technical Marketing Engineer