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Kubernetes Networking Model

Understand the fundamental networking requirements in Kubernetes: flat network, Pod IPs, and the CNI plugin interface.

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This lesson covers the Kubernetes networking model:

The three fundamental networking requirements (Pod-to-Pod, Pod-to-Service, External-to-Service)
Flat network model: every Pod gets a unique routable IP
Container Network Interface (CNI) plugins: Flannel, Calico, Cilium, Weave
Network namespaces and veth pairs explained
DNS in Kubernetes: CoreDNS, FQDN format
kube-dns vs CoreDNS

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