Cilium with Thomas Graf

04/11/2020 29 min

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Episode Synopsis

Eric Anderson (@ericmander) speaks with Thomas Graf (@tgraf__) about Cilium, the open-source networking, observability, and security software for cloud-native applications based on eBPF. Thomas is the co-founder and CTO of Isovalent, which maintains both eBPF and Cilium. Listen to today’s episode for a discussion of how Thomas’ work has leveled up the Linux kernel and the possibilities of network infrastructure in a cloud-native world.
In this episode we discuss:

The impact of simultaneous development on Cilium and eBPF
Google’s incorporation of Cilium
Shortening the gap between writing kernel code and its deployment
What JavaScript and eBPF have in common
Cilium’s sister project, Hubble

Links:

Cilium
eBPF
Isovalent
Red Hat
OpenShift
Kubernetes
Docker
New GKE Dataplane V2 increases security and visibility for containers
SPIFFE
Istio

People mentioned:

Brendan Gregg (@brendangregg)

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