Cilium with Thomas Graf

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) Other episodes: Istio on Contributor