The Big Network Picture Virtual Network Azure Virtual

The Big (Network) Picture Virtual Network Azure Virtual Network Users Internet Front-End Access Backend Connectivity Express. Route VPN Gateways Backend Connectivity

Azure SDN Momentum: Rich and Scalable VNets 2016+: 2015: 2014: 2013: • Internal load balancing • VPN based on premise connectivity • Virtual networks • Public load balancing • Managed NAT • Network security groups • Service chaining • Private peering • Multi-NIC • Reserved IP • Instance IP • Container support • Application gateway • Accelerated networking • Virtual network peering • IPv 6 • Mac persistence • Netwatcher • Multiple IPs per NIC

Azure VNet for Containers One SDN VNet

Backend connectivity Express. Route VPN Gateways

Orchestrator/ Plugin Platform Cloud Container orchestrator Cloud network

Open Source https: //github. com/Azure/azure-container-networking

Open & Modular Architecture Container 1 Container 2 Application Containers Container 3 Orchestrator (Kubernetes, DC/OS, Service Fabric) Container Runtime (Docker) Container hosting environment CNI 3 rd party plugins Network Plugin IPAM Plugin OS environment Operating System (Windows, Linux) IP 1 IP 2 IP 3 Containers as first class citizens on Network Azure SDN Service Chaining, Security, Connectivity

Azure Container Service Azure CNI plugin integrated and available through settings on ACS engine, allowing users to turn on CNI plugin on the settings template and start using with their container orchestrator. https: //github. com/Azure/acs-engine

Azure VNet

https: //github. com/Azure/azure-containernetworking https: //docs. microsoft. com/enus/azure/virtual-networks-overview https: //github. com/Azure/acs-engine