eCHO News 48

eCHO news is 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

30th January 2024

Two critical, but often overlooked parts of any open source project is bringing in new contributors and governance of how decisions are done. When you are so caught up in the day to day work of building new features and fixing bugs, it can be easy to put these on the back burner.

In the Cilium project, we are always trying to be proactive in creating the community that we want to be a part of. That's why this LFX cycle, I'll be mentoring a project on improving the documentation of Cilium's governance. This is hitting two birds with one stone, both brining in a new contributor to the project and brushing up our governance. If you know someone that would be a good fit or want to apply yourself, the application is now open. Help me make the Cilium community even better. Let's ?? gin!

The Technical

Perfecting Protocol Parsing (Probably) with eBPF - Manipulating BGP with eBPF

Hello eBPF: Recording data in event buffers (3) - More Java fun

Fixing Cilium on Kind - "Calima seams to be a seamless replacement for Docker desktop"

nttcom/fluvia - "IPFIX Exporter using eBPF/XDP and IPFIX Library in Go"

kondukto-io/kntrl - "eBPF based CI/CD security tool"

pradhans0906/K8S-CNI-Cilium-Tutorial - "set up a k3s cluster with Cilium as the CNI running on macOS systems using Multipass for virtualization"

h3x-eilidh/poc-tetragon-tracingpolicy - "a controlled scenario where a process attempts to manipulate setuid bits"

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The Ecosystem

BPF Steering Committee Year in Review - Find out what the BSC has been up to

Cisco Gets Cilium: What It Means for Developers - "The more enterprises adopt distributed cloud native application architecture the more important it will become for them to obtain a security blanket [Cilium]"

The value of Cilium backports - Love this discussion around the "hidden" costs in open source and how you should approach them as an organization

Cilium in Paris! See you at KubeCon Europe 2024 - Bookmark this page to keep track of everything happening at KubeCon

eBPF and Cilium Community Growth and Enterprise Production Adaption - Recording of a Twitter Space

eBPF for Linux Admins - Seven part series to get you started

Container Network Interface (CNI) in Kubernetes: Ciliums Rolle und die übernahme von Isovalent durch Cisco - Intro auf Deutsche

Avec l'achat d'Isovalent, Cisco renforce sa maitrise de la technologie eBPF - Lemond covers the Isovalent acquisition

BPF Opens Door to Linux Extensible Scheduling (Maybe with Rust!) - Game faster with eBPF and Rust

Unlocking the Power of eBPF at Traceable - "One of the key advantages of eBPF in our setup is its ability to reduce the resource footprint and network traffic"

Observabilitatea Sistemelor: Impactul Revolu?ionar al eBPF - eBPF intro in Romanian

Cisco buy highlights container networking, security - Network World discussing why Cisco bought Isovalent

Cilium Week Recap: Preparing for Cilium Certification - Blog summarizing the videos

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The How To

Tutorial: Redirect, Rewrite and Mirror HTTP with Cilium Gateway API - "Cilium might be famously known for being a high-performance CNI and its network policy engine but it’s equally capable of doing L7 load-balancing"

Isovalent Enterprise for Cilium and Azure Arc: solving the cluster manageability conundrum - "how to manage multiple Kubernetes clusters running Cilium with Azure Arc"

Multi-Kubernetes cluster connectivity with OKE and Cilium for stateful workloads on Oracle Cloud - Cluster Mesh for databases

Pure Cilium : A Guide for Local Load Balancing and BGP - "Use Cilium's IPAM feature to expose your service as a built-in load balancer"

Unlocking Kubernetes Simplicity with RKE2 and Empowering Network Security with Cilium - Set up Cilium on RKE2

A closer look at Ingress, Gateway API and TLS certificates with Cilium and cert-manager - Dive into how they are implemented

Diving into an eBPF + Go Example - Three part series to get started

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The Video

The Argument for Cilium, with Giant Swarm’s Puja Abbassi - Youtube Short #1

Tetragon and Cilium are Driving Viasat’s Efficiency - Youtube Short #2

Learning Networking with Cilium Part 3: Advanced Install w/ Helm (and more!) - More practice installing Cilium

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The Events

Cilium Workshop with Isovalent and Sue - Geldermalsen - January 25th

Cloud Native Prague #9 - Intro to Cilium on January 30th

Transforming observability with eBPF superpowers - Join a webinar with me as a speaker on January 30th

eBPF: the next big thing in Service Mesh! - Livestream on February 13th

Code, Not Config: Simplifying DevOps with Cilium - Webinar on February 20th

Cilium + eBPF Day - Coming back to KubeCon Paris. The schedule is out now!

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The Tweet of the Week