Isovalent Enterprise Platform 26.05: Bringing Kubernetes, VMs, and Load Balancing Into One Operating Model

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A holiday virtual eBee Quest!

Join our eBee Quest! Tackle our labs during the holidays, compete with others in completing all the labs there are, get the chance to win something - and learn a lot during the process!

• Roland Wolters, Head of Technical Marketing, Isovalent

Isovalent Runtime Security 1.18: Toxic combinations, optimized data export, Splunk workflows, and more!

Isovalent Runtime Security 1.18 gives you faster visibility and stronger response capabilities across Kubernetes and Virtual Machines, with an improved lightweight telemetry architecture and risk driven threat detection framework. See the performance benchmarks!

• Jeremy Colvin, Senior Technical Marketing Engineer

Isovalent Networking for Kubernetes 1.18: New Routing, Policy, and Observability Enhancements

Isovalent Networking for Kubernetes 1.18 introduces native BGP route reflector support, Envoy HA for uninterrupted L7 traffic, smarter policy tooling, enhanced DNS and egress controls, and major Timescape UI and observability upgrades. This release focuses on simpler operations, stronger security, and predictable behaviour at scale.

• Dean Lewis, Senior Technical Marketing Engineer

Isovalent Enterprise Platform 25.11: Unified Release, Unified Value

Learn what is new in Isovalent Enterprise Platform 25.11, the unified release that brings updated networking, security, and observability across Kubernetes, virtual machines, and cloud environments.

• Dean Lewis, Senior Technical Marketing Engineer

Busy Bees, Balanced Minds

Isovalent’s World Bee Day initiative showed how deeply our culture connects personal well-being with positive impact. Instead of the usual idea of work–life balance, our team embraces work–adventure balance, a value that encourages curiosity, renewal, and individuality. For a month, colleagues took on personal challenges that helped them recharge, from long bike rides and mountain climbs to quiet reflection, creative projects, and mindful routines. Each activity supported Planet Bee Foundation, giving hundreds of children access to pollinator education. The experience showed how our culture thrives when people define balance in their own way. It strengthened our sense of community and reinforced the belief that caring for ourselves helps us contribute more to our work and to causes that matter.

• Ella (Vanda-Elvira) Speranska, Event Manager, Culture Bee

KubeCon North America 2025 Wrap-Up: VM on Kubernetes, Cilium Ingress, Tetragon Tipping Point and Beluga Whales

KubeCon North America 2025 brought major shifts to the cloud native world. From the surprise Ingress NGINX retirement to the growing momentum around VMs on Kubernetes, this wrap-up covers it all. Dan Finneran, Nico Vibert, and Donia Chaiehloudj reflect on key announcements, trends in Kubernetes networking, community highlights like Merge-Forward, and the rise of Tetragon in production environments.

• Dan Finneran, Principal Community Advocate

• Nico Vibert, Principal Technical Marketing Engineer

• Donia Chaiehloudj, Software Engineer and Community

Safely Managing Cilium Network Policies in Kubernetes: Testing and Simulation Techniques

Learn how to safely manage and test Cilium network policies in production environments. This step-by-step guide covers audit mode, default-deny toggles, and policy simulations using Isopolicy, helping you validate enforcement changes, prevent outages, and strengthen security across your Kubernetes clusters.

• Dean Lewis, Senior Technical Marketing Engineer

Navigating the Ingress-nginx Archival: Why Now Is the Time to Move to Cilium

Ingress-nginx is being archived, and Kubernetes teams need a secure, supported path forward. This post explains what the retirement means, compares your options, and shows how to migrate quickly to Cilium Ingress or adopt the Cilium Gateway API for advanced traffic management.

• Dean Lewis, Senior Technical Marketing Engineer

State of Kubernetes Networking Report 2025

The State of Kubernetes Networking Report 2025 is now available. Based on hundreds of real-world responses, the report reveals how organizations are building and securing their Kubernetes networks today. It explores trends in CNI adoption, service connectivity, observability, and the rise of AI and VM workloads inside Kubernetes clusters. Discover what tools engineers trust most, where teams face challenges, and how networking practices are evolving across cloud and on-prem environments.

• Nico Vibert, Principal Technical Marketing Engineer

• Roland Wolters, Head of Technical Marketing, Isovalent

The Network Segmentation Spectrum

Cyber attacks show how quickly intruders can move laterally when segmentation is weak. The old perimeter firewall model is no longer enough. Segmentation now exists across a spectrum: macro controls that separate zones, micro policies between workloads, and runtime enforcement that ties security to the processes themselves. Cisco’s Hybrid Mesh Firewall strategy, with Hypershield, Secure Workload, and the Isovalent Enterprise Platform, brings these layers together to secure containers, VMs, and AI workloads.

• Nico Vibert, Principal Technical Marketing Engineer

What is Runtime Security?

Runtime security refers to the tools and practices used to protect applications and workloads while they are actively running, ensuring safety and reliability.

• Jeremy Colvin, Senior Technical Marketing Engineer

Isovalent + Splunk .conf: Extract the Needle, Leave the Haystack

The volume of data flowing across modern infrastructure is overwhelming (some at Splunk .Conf might even call it… ludicrous).

• Jeremy Colvin, Senior Technical Marketing Engineer