Tigera’s Open Source Calico Selected To Address Kubernetes Network Policy In RKE 2 Clusters

• RKE 2 clusters will be able to leverage Project Calico to enforce Kubernetes Network Policy

Tigera, a leader in Kubernetes security and observability, that Kubernetes management market leader SUSE has chosen to add open source Calico container network interface (CNI) plugin as an option to Rancher Kubernetes Engine (RKE) 2, enabling consistent Kubernetes network policy definition and enforcement.

Recommended AI News: Vendasta Announces Historic $119.5 Million Round to Revolutionize Small Business Technology

“Users will benefit from simplified, consistent, networking, security and observability across our Kubernetes’s platforms with one technology that addresses their needs.”

Calico provides highly scalable, high-performance and resource-efficient Kubernetes networking and security that works across multi-cloud and hybrid environments with support for multiple data planes, such as eBPF, Linux and Windows.

“Now users get a single solution for Kubernete networking and security and the option to add advanced full-stack security and observability functionality that many enterprises want in their Kubernetes deployments,” said Amit Gupta, vice president of product management of Tigera.

Recommended AI News: JCDecaux Launches Its DOOH Programmatic Offering in France With VIOOH

Due to be generally available later this year, RKE2 will enable enterprises to deploy Kubernetesclusters on any infrastructure, including on premises, cloud, and near edge. Kubernetes’ networking, security, and observability for such deployments are critical to prevent an organization’s exposure to a multitude of security and compliance issues. With Calico integrated as part of RKE2, users can secure, observe, and troubleshoot their Kubernetes environments across multiple data planes.

Also, enterprises can gain additional features in Calico Cloud and Enterprise, which are built on open source Calico, to help address performance hotspots, troubleshoot microservice communication, and do anomaly detection.

“With SUSE’s vision to innovate everywhere and Rancher’s approach toward managing Kubernetes everywhere, Calico accelerates our vision and approach,” said Keith Basil, vice president of product, cloud native infrastructure at SUSE. “Users will benefit from simplified, consistent, networking, security and observability across our Kubernetes platforms with one technology that addresses their needs.”

With Calico, users will be able to configure their RKE2 Kubernetes cluster for both network flow and security policy. Users who also have Calico Cloud and Enterprise subscriptions can also:

• Create, preview, stage, and deploy networking and security policies across hybrid- and multi-clouds.
• Evaluate security policies with real-time metrics across tiers and within individual policy rules.
• Observe point-to-point topographical representation of traffic between namespaces, services, and deployments for faster troubleshooting (Calico Cloud and Enterprise).