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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

24th January 2023

 
In case you missed the announcement, the first ever CiliumCon is going to be held on April 18th in Amsterdam right before KubeCon + CloudNativeCon EU. While there have been conference talks about Cilium since 2017, this is the first conference focused just on Cilium. We are looking for talks around both use cases from end users and the technology of how Cilium works.
 
The CfP is open now until February 5th. If you want help with your CfP, reply to this email and I'm happy to help whether it be brainstorming ideas with you or reviewing your abstract. I'm excited to hear all of the stories coming from the community and I want to help you tell yours!
 

Let's 🐝 gin!

The Technical

Harnessing the eBPF Verifier

A userspace harness to improve the testability of the eBPF verifier. On Github too

 

furkanonder/beetrace

"beetrace allows you to trace a Python process line by line or the functions' entries and returns with bpftrace"

 

SeeFlowerX/stackplz

"eBPF-based stack trace tool for Android" use google translate on the blog to find out more

 

afxdp-plugins-for-kubernetes

"A Kubernetes device plugin and CNI plugin to provide AF_XDP networking to Kubernetes pods." There is also a video here

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The Ecosystem

Cosmonic User Story: Running Cilium on Nomad for Wasm Workloads

“That was the killer feature. I’ve run service meshes before. It’s great but that’s yet another system to manage. [With Cilium], you can just toggle that flag and you’re done.”

 

A light introduction to eBPF

A quick overview with an accompanying video for those that prefer the format

 

Using eBPF to solve problems that sidecars can’t in cloud-native deployments

The limitations of sidecars and how eBPF overcomes them

 

eBPF for Cybersecurity - Part 1

Learn why eBPF is important for cybersecurity

 

The Ultimate Guide to eBPF Observability

Another eBPF based observability company talking about why they chose eBPF

 

Startup's eBPF APM tools turn up heat on Datadog

From Datadog to eBPF, this may not be the last story of its kind

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The How To

Tutorial: Tips and Tricks to install Cilium

Installing: Cilium the Easy to Hard Way

 

WSL2+Cilium: The rise of eBPF

TIL: Cilium works on WSL

 

Using eBPF on OpenShift nodes (the quick and dirty way)

Favorite line: "If you are a Red Hat customer and you are in trouble, open a support case before going forward; otherwise, do the following steps at your own risk!" 😂

 

Multi-cluster Networking with Cilium and Istio

Learn how Cluster Mesh fail over works

 

A Deep Dive into eBPF: Writing an Efficient DNS Monitoring.

Get all the code to get started with eBPF with explanations

 

Introduction to Parca - Part 2

Learn how to get Parca up and running

 

Observability strategies to not overload engineering teams – eBPF

Learn how to get started with Pixie

 

eBPF enhanced HTTP observability — L7 metrics and tracing

"Use eBPF techniques to analyze performance bottlenecks of Layer 7 protocols"

 

Descubriendo Cilium - Dejando a un lado los sidecars

A video on how to use Cilium en español

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The Events

Fireside chat with Liz Rice on her upcoming O’Reilly book: Learning eBPF

Join this online chat on January 26th to hear about Liz Rice's new book on eBPF

 

What’s New with Cilium & eBPF South Bay Meetup

Join the first ever Cilium Meetup, be the OG on February 9th

 

CloudNativeSecurityCon

February 1-2nd in Seattle hear about how Tetragon and Network Policies are improving security

 

Civo Navigate

Tracy Holmes will talk about home lab observability in Tampa February 7th

 

ContainerDay Security

Cilium workshop and Tetragon talk in always sunny Hamburg 

 

CiliumCon

The first ever CiliumCon is happening on April 18th at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon. CfP is open until 5th of February. 

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The Videos

eCHO Episode 75: Automating Clusters and Cilium with Flux Part 2

eCHO Episode 75: Automating Clusters and Cilium with Flux Part 2

  

eCHO Episode 76:

Cilium Egress Gateway

eCHO Episode 76: Cilium Egress Gateway

Upcoming Stream

eCHO Episode 77: Automating Clusters and Cilium with Flux Part 3

Add to your calendar

The Tweet of the Week

Have to admit,  @ciliumproject  Hubble is the most helpful tool I’ve seen for network visibility in  @kubernetesio

As always, if you’ve seen a blog post, a tool, or anything else eBPF or Cilium related that you think the rest of the community should hear about, send them my way. You can either hit reply or join the #echo-news channel on Cilium Slack. You can also find all of the past episodes on the website.

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Written and sent by Bill Mulligan. Any feedback is welcome!

Bill Mulligan

I work at Isovalent which is leading the eBPF-Powered Revolution in Cloud Native Networking, Observability, and Security with Cilium

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