Alexandros Kosiaris, Wikimedia Foundation
IPv6 was standardized in RFC 1883 in 1995, 30 years ago. It was envisioned as the next Internet Protocol, eventually replacing IPv4. In late 2024, worldwide adoption was around 40% and a linear projection, based on the rate of adoption during the last 10 years, ended up predicting that migration would hit 100% around 2045. It can be argued that this is an optimistic take.
Where does this leave an SRE team in 2025 and thereafter? We will be broaching on a number of aspects to try and answer this question.
A Linux enthusiast, turned FreeBSD sysadmin, turned Linux sysadmin, turned systems engineer (somewhere along that path there’s a Devops hat as well), turned SRE, Alexandros has been in the space since 1999, starting as a hobbyist, then a professional. Currently working with the Wikimedia Foundation in a Principal SRE role, he has pushed forward for more virtualization, embracing the containerization and orchestration paradigm while putting out his share of fires.
author = {Alexandros Kosiaris},
title = {{IPv6} in 2025: Quo Vadis?},
year = {2025},
address = {Dublin},
publisher = {USENIX Association},
month = oct
}
