In some cases, there was a gap in the open source offerings so we chose to build our own solutions: Themis, our Kubernetes AWS cloudformation template, CoreDNS plugins, and the Atlas toolkit are examples of solutions we developed in-house. We have taken a measured approach to build and reuse software components. The cloud-based management also allows them to seamlessly receive updates. These CNFs (and others) can be delivered to our customers over the internet via our cloud portal. We’ve also built a white box router (WBR) with firewall support services to support our anycast and threat intelligence gateway for internal use. To prove this, we built CNFs like our on-prem DNS, DHCP, and DNS forwarding proxy.

This allows us to deliver any number of services without having to update an on-prem monolith. We’ve taken a microservice approach to our on-prem solution as well. Communication to the cloud is handled with gRPC. Docker is used to deploy our on-prem footprint. The on-prem portion of our cloud offering is also built with many of the same cloud-native components. The result is a lightweight, flexible and reliable system on which to build applications. Infoblox contributed to the the CoreDNS project and lead it through the CNCF process from inception to graduation. We also leverage CoreDNS for service discovery. The microservice approach has allowed us to simplify application development by letting application developers focus on the business logic they are delivering. Authentication, authorization (via Themis), tagging, and audit logging are all handled with gRPC middleware. These microservices use gRPC for service-to-service communication and gRPC-gateway for REST clients. We have 120+ microservices that are deployed using Kubernetes the services geographically distributed on AWS. The platform addresses a range of concerns: authentication, authorization, tagging, logging, auditing, monitoring, notifications, scaling, and communication (RPC and pub/sub).Ītlas is entirely built on cloud-native applications. To do that, we have created a platform that uses best-of-breed technologies to develop container-native applications. The CNFs that we are developing are lightweight containers managed from the cloud. That leadership is also being carried forward as Infoblox prepares to deliver cloud-native network functions (CNFs). Infoblox is a world leader in on-prem DDI solutions. In this blog post, we will dive into Infoblox’s Atlas platform and explore how it’s used to deliver cloud-native applications.

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