w in just a bit.</p><h3 id=artifacts-of-container-networking>Artifacts of container networking</h3><p>Extending network connectivity from host into the container has been a <a href=https://kubernetes.io/blog/2016/01/why-kubernetes-doesnt-use-libnetwork/>major challenge</a>. New layers of network plumbing were invented explicitly for that purpose. As such, an application running in a container is simply a process on the host. However due to a <a href=http://appswitch.io/blog/kubernetes_istio_and_network_func