kube-router VS multus-cni

Compare kube-router vs multus-cni and see what are their differences.

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kube-router

Posts with mentions or reviews of kube-router. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-06-21.

multus-cni

Posts with mentions or reviews of multus-cni. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-04.
  • Run a pod with static MAC address
    1 project | /r/kubernetes | 9 Jun 2023
    I have to plan the migration of our software we are running on a single node with docker-compose to K8, and i'm kinda lost in the plugins and the basic settings. One of our MS has to use static MAC address in order to run fine, bcs it's using a certificate. Is it possible to run a pod with static MAC address, or do you suggest to use multus-cni or something like this?
  • I could use some help figuring out which CNI to use
    2 projects | /r/kubernetes | 4 Jun 2023
    Multus CNI plug-in: https://github.com/k8snetworkplumbingwg/multus-cni
  • Two different networks
    1 project | /r/kubernetes | 18 Apr 2023
  • K3s- v1.24
    2 projects | /r/kubernetes | 23 Jan 2023
    I opened a PR to add support for CNI v1.0.0 to Multus (https://github.com/k8snetworkplumbingwg/multus-cni/pull/879) but it was closed in July because 4.0 was "pretty near". Of course now it's almost February and we haven't seen so much as an Alpha of 4.0 since October. Sure wish they'd get their act together.
  • Kubernetes with Kubeadm
    7 projects | dev.to | 3 Nov 2022
    Multus
  • Considering (and deciding against) a switch from Traefik to an Envoy-based Ingress Controller
    4 projects | /r/kubernetes | 16 Mar 2021
    One thing I will note is that in the end only one process can listen at a certain endpoint (let's say 80 or 443) at the end of the day without some other complexity, AFAIK there isn't an Multus-like project for Ingress Controllers... A 2 tier setup would work but that just feels like overkill (especially for me).

What are some alternatives?

When comparing kube-router and multus-cni you can also consider the following projects:

kube-vip - Kubernetes Control Plane Virtual IP and Load-Balancer

cilium - eBPF-based Networking, Security, and Observability

kilo - Kilo is a multi-cloud network overlay built on WireGuard and designed for Kubernetes (k8s + wg = kg)

metallb - A network load-balancer implementation for Kubernetes using standard routing protocols

antrea - Kubernetes networking based on Open vSwitch

ingress - WIP Caddy 2 ingress controller for Kubernetes

calico - Cloud native networking and network security

kube-ovn - A Bridge between SDN and Cloud Native (Project under CNCF)

cni - Container Network Interface - networking for Linux containers

ingress - Ingress-NGINX Controller for Kubernetes [Moved to: https://github.com/kubernetes/ingress-nginx]