Kubernetes has become the leading orchestration platform for containerized applications, but networking challenges persist in multi-host environments where high throughput and low latency are critical. Traditional networking solutions often lead to CPU bottlenecks, limiting the scalability and efficiency of containerized workloads. In this webinar, we explore these networking challenges, particularly in environments demanding robust performance across multiple containers and nodes.

The Chelsio T6 SmartNIC addresses these challenges by offloading key networking tasks and enabling Single Root I/O Virtualization (SR-IOV), which provides direct I/O to containers and significantly reduces CPU usage. This webinar will showcase recent performance tests using T6 adapters in a Kubernetes environment, demonstrating line-rate 98 Gbps throughput with a maximum of 35% CPU utilization. We will walk through the test setup, configuration, and results, highlighting how T6’s advanced networking offloads deliver scalable, high-performance solutions for containerized applications.