eCHO News 14

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

While the news front has been quiet with everyone away on vacation for August, I can tell the fall conference season is about to kick off. It's cool to see all of the excitement around eBPF and there is even the first Tetragon talk from someone outside the project! I'm OOO this week for my brother's wedding and as a last break before all of those conferences so I'll keep it short. Let's 🐝 gin!

The Technical

Addressing Bandwidth Exhaustion with Cilium Bandwidth Manager - "During the latency tests, we saw a 4x reduction of p99 latency" theory, practice, and results all in one blog post

Using eBPF for network observability in the cloud - "Different tools adopt different data structures to collect metrics, but there are no existing performance measurements to see the impact of the data structure used" ... until now

Rewriting the Control Plane of BCC Tools in Golang - "Now Inspektor Gadget is more performant, flexible and easier to maintain" thanks to a control plane written in Golang and cilium/ebpf

Pushing the envelope: monitoring gRPC-C with eBPF - "Monitoring gRPC requests wasn't a trivial task – at least until eBPF came around." great deep dive into how they did it even as eBPF evolves

Learning eBPF exploitation - Using an exploit to win a CTF. This has already been patched and documented so make sure you keep your systems up to date

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The Ecosystem

Day Two Cloud 160: Going Deep Into Cilium Service Mesh With eBPF - Packet Pushers Podcast is famous in the networking space and this one dives into Cilium 1.12 and service mesh with Thomas Graf

All your network are belong to eBPF - It seems podcast week continues with another great one from the people at Changelog this time with Liz Rice and Thomas Graf diving into eBPF

Insights on How eBPF & Cilium Changes How We Leverage the Linux Kernel - Podcast with Divine and Charles about Cilium and eBPF

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The How To

Addressing Bandwidth Exhaustion with Cilium Bandwidth Manager - This get a double listing because it also provides a great how to for setting up bandwidth manager

How to Deploy a Tanzu Kubernetes Grid cluster using the Cilium CNI - Quick intro for deploying Cilium and Hubble on Tanzu

How Tracee solves the lack of BTF information - Awesome deep dive on how the team at Aqua made CO-RE possible even when the BTF information isn't available

Getting Started on Kubernetes observability with eBPF - Learn how to monitor applications run within a Kubernetes cluster with eBPF down to the YAML file

Using Pixie to monitor a Strimzi kafka cluster - Learn how to use eBPF and Pixie to monitor Kafka with Kafka Protocol parsing and without redeployment of the applications

eBPF, Cilium and #GKE Dataplane V2 | Google Developers North America - This video demonstrates how to set up and run Cilium on GKE

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The Events

eBPF Summit - The schedule is now live! Go check it out now to preview the 32 talks across eBPF in the Real World, for Networking, for Security, and Programming and Internals!

PostFinance: Scalability and Observability with Isovalent Cilium Enterprise - "Learn how Isovalent Cilium Enterprise enables highly regulated industries to stay at the front of the cloud native development" September 8th

eBPF & Networking Track @ Linux Plumbers Conference - Deep dive into eBPF internals at LPC in Dublin September 12th

Cilium and eBPF @ Open Source Summit - A broad variety of talks from a Cilium workshops and talk on service mesh to eBPF for beginners and privilege escalation September 13-16th in Dublin

How the Hive Came to Bee: Cilium, an eBPF Use Case - Find out how eBPF works in the real world with Cilium on September 14th

Cilium - Cloud Native Networking & Security Made in Switzerland @ Cloud Native Day Switzerland - Hear Thomas Graf talk about the origins of Cilium in Bern on September 14th

Following The ‘Superpower’ Promise Of EBPF @ P99 Conf - Liz Rice will uses eBPF code and demos to explore the basics of high performance networking with Cilium

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