Azure CNI and Cilium for Advanced AKS Networking, Security & Observability

Introduction Kubernetes has become the cornerstone of cloud-native infrastructure. While its orchestration capabilities are widely recognized, Kubernetes networking remains one of its most complex yet crucial pillars — especially in enterprise-grade deployments. If you’re running production workloads in Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), the choice of networking plugin significantly impacts scalability,…

08/05/2025Azure Infrastructure Blog

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