Leveraging Class E address space to mitigate IPv4 exhaustion issues in GKE
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As the number of applications and services hosted on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) continues to grow, so does the demand for private IPv4 addresses (RFC 1918). For many large organizations, the RFC1918 address space is becoming increasingly scarce, leading to IP address exhaustion challenges that impact their application scale. IPv6 solves this exact address exhaustion issue by providing a lot more addresses. However not all enterprises or applications are ready for IPv6 yet.
As the number of applications and services hosted on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) continues to grow, so does the demand for private IPv4 addresses (RFC 1918). For many large organizations, the RFC1918 address space is becoming increasingly scarce, leading to IP address exhaustion challenges that impact their application scale. IPv6 solves this exact address exhaustion issue by providing a lot more addresses. However not all enterprises or applications are ready for IPv6 yet.