Overview of Universal Cloud Tap - Container

Universal Cloud Tap - Container (UCT-C), earlier known as Universal Container Tap (UCT), is a containerized component deployed as a DaemonSet. This ensures that it runs on every worker node within a cluster. UCT-C provides network broker features in a containerized form and can perform traffic acquisition, basic filtering, and tunneling support. It is deployed as a Pod in the given worker node where the workloads run.

UCT-C is deployed by the Kubernetes orchestrator and not by GigaVUE‑FM. The traffic acquisition process is initiated by UCT-C.

Following are the modules implemented in UCT-C:

• Traffic Acquisition - UCT-C supports traffic acquisition by replicating the traffic from the worker pods.
• Filtering Module - UCT-C provides basic filtering based on 5-Tuple. GigaVUE‑FM pushes the filtering configuration.
• Tunneling Modules - UCT-C supports L2GRE, VXLAN, and TLS-PCAPng tunneling to send the tapped traffic to the GigaVUE V Series Nodes or tools.