To describe 2020 in a word, resilient arguably sums it up. The resiliency we’ve shown in adjusting to life during a pandemic has been made possible by resilient applications that support our new virtual world of remote working, distance learning, online shopping, and the use of online services.

Designing cloud native application delivery for resiliency, security, and speed will be a key topic of conversation with the Citrix team at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2020, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation’s flagship conference that kicks off this week as a virtual event through November 20 and features Citrix as a sponsor.

Citrix app delivery and security solutions — including Citrix ADC, Citrix Web App Firewall (WAF), and Citrix Application Delivery Management (Citrix ADM) — integrate with the most popular Kubernetes platforms and open source tools. Citrix solutions are battle-tested and fully supported to complement your choice of open source tools, giving you a complete cloud-native stack with holistic observability and comprehensive security to ensure a highly resilient distributed architecture that’s built for speed.

What’s New from Citrix at KubeCon 2020

Join the Citrix Cloud Native team at our virtual booth or request a 1:1 meeting to learn how to implement consistent, seamless, and secure application delivery in Kubernetes environments. We’ll cover:

  • Multi-cluster ingress support: Automatically route traffic to the best cluster based on load and availability
  • Actionable analytics: Troubleshoot faster using golden signals monitoring, P99 data, and ML-powered insights
  • GitOps integration: Expose APIs faster with automated API gateway configuration

Multi-Cluster Ingress Support

If you already use Citrix ADCs in your on-premises environments, you can use the same Citrix ADCs for your Kubernetes environments to apply the same load balancing and Layer 7 policies to your microservices in Kubernetes clusters.

Citrix Ingress Controller, which works alongside Citrix Multi-Cluster Ingress Controller, automates the configuration of Citrix ADCs to proxy traffic into your Kubernetes clusters for the purposes of failover, canary deployment, and reducing RTT.

Citrix Multi-Cluster Ingress Controller features a Kubernetes-native UI (that uses kubectl) to help you more easily manage applications deployed across multiple clusters, Additionally, you can use custom resource definitions (CRDs) to configure global server load balancing (GSLB) on your Citrix ADCs to ensure better performance and reliability. Citrix Multi-Cluster Ingress Controller enables the Citrix ADC GSLB to send the traffic to the best cluster based on load and availability for any Kubernetes service exposed outside the cluster.

Actionable Analytics

Citrix goes beyond the traditional pillars of logging, metrics, and tracing to include service graphs for faster troubleshooting in Kubernetes clusters. Displayed in Citrix ADM as graphical representations of all your microservices, service graphs monitor services within a Kubernetes cluster and provide information about the pod or pods. Using the four golden signals (latency, traffic, errors, and saturation) along with P99 data, Citrix ADM can help you pinpoint down to the individual microservice where a given issue lies.

Additionally, ML-based detection provides an advanced early-warning system to surface the “unknown unknowns” so that you can take immediate action rather than simply react after an incident occurs. For example, rather than defining alerts based on static thresholds, Citrix ADM continually observes traffic and compares it to historical traffic patterns according to hour of the day, day of the week, and week of the month. This provides dynamic reporting on deviations that surface abnormal spikes or dips, enabling you to be proactive and spot anomalies faster,

GitOps Integration

To expose APIs faster, you need automated API gateway configuration. Citrix API Gateway is purpose built to integrate seamlessly into a Kubernetes environment by leveraging GitOps, which provides an operational framework for DevOps best practices for application development. For better decision-making in your CI/CD pipeline, Citrix API Gateway integrates with Jenkins to expose metrics within Citrix ADM and open source observability tools.

Because Citrix API gateway integrates with Kubernetes through the Citrix Ingress Controller and Citrix ADC, you can expose your APIs outside the Kubernetes cluster without worrying about compliance and security.

Meet the Citrix Cloud Native Team at KubeCon

To learn more about Citrix cloud native solutions, visit our virtual booth at KubeCon or request a 1:1 meeting. Our engineers and product team will be on hand to answer your questions, show demos, and share actionable advice to help you achieve fast, secure, and resilient cloud-native application delivery.