Container networking is a messy affair. Tigera, a startup announced earlier this month by Metaswitch veterans, aims to make it simpler and more secure by melding Project Calico and CoreOS flannel into a new open source platform called Canal.
Although containers from CoreOS, Docker, and other vendors reached the adoption phase some time ago, solutions for networking containers together remain immature, according to Wikibon senior analyst Stu Miniman. “We are very early in how networking is going to be solved in the container world,” he says.
There are already several contenders in this area. One is libnetwork, a container networking platform built by Docker.Weave Net from Weaveworks, which offers an integrated management solution for Docker containers, is another. And there is flannel, a CoreOS network fabric that relies on etcd to store configuration data.
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