Cilium with Thomas Graf
November 4th, 2020
29 mins 28 secs
About this Episode
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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