eCHO news in your bi-weekly wrap up of all things eBPF and Cilium. If you want to keep up on the latest in cloud native networking, observability, and security this is your quelle

18th October 2022

KubeCon + CloudNativeCon is just around the corner and I know it will be abuzz with eBPF. If you want to catch up on everything happening around Cilium, I've put together a little cheat sheet for you. Top three for me:

1) Cloud Native eBPF Day the future today

2) Cilium Project Meeting get started on or continue your contribution journey

3) Cilium Project Update find out what is coming next!

I'll be at all of them so be sure to stop by and say hi. If you can't catch me there, you will find me at the Cilium booth, one of my talks, or DM me on Twitter to find a time to chat. Mention the newsletter and I can get you some swag ;) Safe travels to everyone heading to Detroit ✈️

Let's 🐝 gin!

The Technical

Skyfall: eBPF agent for infrastructure observability

Learn about the Skyfall agent LinkedIn uses to monitor their infrastructure and the challenges they faced deploying eBPF across their whole fleet of data centers

Bringing the Power of eBPF to QEMU

"KVM already got benefits from it, but QEMU did not. Hence we want to bring the power of eBPF to QEMU" Great to see support for eBPF expanding!

eunomia-bpf/eunomia-bpf

"Package, distribute, and run eBPF programs in JSON or in a WASM module"

On Bypassing eBPF Security Monitoring

The cat and mouse game continues

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The Ecosystem

Cilium Talks at KubeCon NA 2022

13 talks at KubeCon, should be our lucky event right?

Accelerate network performance with Cilium BBR

"The results? Over a 50% improvement in throughput performances." You are going to want to check this one out

Observe and optimize your applications from code to kernel

Elastic just launched their eBPF based continuous profiling product and this is the product page

Kubernetes Network Policy — Cilium

Learn how NetworkPolicies give you back control of your network in Kubernetes

Don’t sweat the network costs, Ocean provides application cost visibility to your Kubernetes cluster

I normally wouldn't include a product page, but I think it is cool to see that eBPF is now being used for cost monitoring/analysis

eBPF and the Service Mesh

If there is no sidecar, they might not have a business. I guess production will tell the truth

Learn how VSHN reduced their support burden with Isovalent Cilium Enterprise

The next Cilium Case Study is out

0x00C - eBPF 🐝

Bullet point intro to eBPF for those who want something quick to send around

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The How To

Tutorial: Run and Observe IPv6 on Kubernetes with Cilium and Hubble

IPv6 might (finally) be real 🤯 check the blog to find out how

Cilium CNI on EKS using secondary CIDR and prefix delegation

Learn how to deploy Cilium on EKS and the observability benefits it brings

What is ebpf

Video intro to eBPF and how to get started using it for observability

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The Events

KubeCon + CloudNativeCon

The largest gathering of the cloud native community and Cilium and eBPF are generating a lot of buzz! I'll be there all next week at the Cilium booth so come say hi and I might even be able to get you some swag

Robust Network Security and Observability with GitOps and Cilium

"What if you were to add your network and security operations into your GitOps workflows?" Join the webinar on October 18th to find out how

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The Videos

eCHO Episode 65:

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eCHO Episode 66:

Cilium at KubeCon NA 2022