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Episode: Forwarding packets at scale - Building a Cloud Data Plane using eBPF/XDP (denog17)
Description: At Hetzner we’ve historically used an Open vSwitch based data plane for connecting hundred thousands of cloud servers to the network. This has served us well for many years and mostly still does. We have however reached some limitations and wanted to improve scalability, resiliency and flexibility with a more specialized data plane that's tailored to our needs while being easy to operate and building a strong foundation for new features.
When checking our options back in 2022, the team reached the conclusion that the best path to achieve this goal is to build and maintain our own highly specialized ne...