Covers the six design decisions to finalize when adopting EKS Hybrid Nodes — hybrid connectivity, cluster topology, Pod CIDR exposure, CNI and routing, node authentication, and workload exposure — with decision criteria and inter-decision dependencies.
Cilium ENI mode architecture, Gateway API resource configuration, performance optimization, Hubble observability, BGP Control Plane v2 deep-dive guide
CNI selection criteria and core Cilium configuration for EKS Hybrid Nodes — hybrid-node-only affinity, cluster-pool IPAM, choosing a Pod CIDR routing method (BGP, static, Gateway), and the Cilium BGP Control Plane configuration procedure.
Covers Amazon EKS Hybrid Nodes from definition, use cases, and pricing model to the nodeadm registration flow, RemoteNodeNetwork/RemotePodNetwork networking structure, traffic flows, and key technical characteristics.
Compares Istio multi-cluster, Cilium ClusterMesh, and Amazon VPC Lattice architectures for East-West (service-to-service) communication across EKS clusters along four axes — functionality, stability, operability, and cost — with guidance on which environment suits each and a migration path from Istio
Compares data plane architecture, mTLS, L7 policy, observability, performance overhead, and operational complexity of major service mesh solutions on EKS, with workload-specific selection criteria
Reference for implementing authentication, rate limiting, IP control, URL rewrite, header manipulation, session affinity, body size limits, and custom error pages as YAML across AWS LBC, Cilium, NGINX GF, Envoy Gateway, and kGateway
NGINX Ingress Controller EOL response, tiered gateways for agentic workloads, Gateway API architecture, GAMMA Initiative, AWS Native vs open source solution comparison (AWS LBC, Cilium, NGINX Gateway Fabric, Envoy Gateway, kGateway, Kong), Cilium ENI integration, migration strategy and benchmark plans
A benchmark plan for comparing the EKS performance of 5 Gateway API implementations (AWS LBC v3, Cilium, NGINX Gateway Fabric, Envoy Gateway, kGateway)
Covers the full lifecycle of the Amazon EKS Hybrid Nodes Gateway, from its operating mechanism through Cilium VTEP reconfiguration, Helm installation, instance sizing, failover, monitoring, and removal.
Designing external exposure for EKS Hybrid Nodes workloads — the traffic-origin-based NLB vs Cilium built-in LB decision principle, AWS Load Balancer Controller configuration requirements, Cilium LB IPAM and BGP advertisement, and community options such as MetalLB.
Observability implementation guide for EKS Hybrid Nodes — covers Cluster Insights configuration self-diagnosis, CloudWatch Container Insights hybrid configuration (RUN_WITH_IRSA), NVIDIA GPU metric integration, a Cilium Hubble-based eBPF dashboard, and Network Flow Monitor applicability analysis.
Deploy OpenClaw AI Agent Gateway on EKS with cost optimization, and achieve full observability using Bifrost Auto-Router + Cilium Hubble + Langfuse
A benchmark report comparing network and application performance of VPC CNI and Cilium CNI across 5 scenarios (kube-proxy, kube-proxy-less, ENI, tuning) in an EKS environment