Kubernetes 1.16 Offers New Promise for IPv6 Cloud Native Deployments | Linux Today

Kubernetes 1.16 Offers New Promise for IPv6 Cloud Native Deployments

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Sean Michael Kerner
Sep 20, 2019

Kubernetes, for the un-initiated is a container orchestration platform that is deployed and supported in all the major public cloud provides and is also widely used on-premises as well. Every new Kubernetes update has features that are in alpha, beta and those that have reached general availability. In the 1.16 update, for networking professionals there is one alpha feature that stands above all others : IPv4/IPv6 dual-stack.

“If you enable IPv4/IPv6 dual-stack networking for your Kubernetes cluster, the cluster will support the simultaneous assignment of both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses,” the Kubernetes feature documentation states.

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