Technologies come, and technologies go. Sadly, we're not all riding Segways to work! Calico was designed with change in mind and is adaptable, supporting different data plane technologies with different goals. In this talk, we'll cover:

• The benefits of software extensibility and modularity
• How Calico was designed with data plane adaptability in mind
• The existing data planes supported by Calico, and their use-cases
• Examining an environment
• The impact of switching data plane in a live cluster"