Day Two Cloud 160: Going Deep Into Cilium Service Mesh With eBPF

Today on the Day Two Cloud podcast we go deep on the Cilium service mesh, including a packet walk that takes us from packet ingestion all the way through a Kubernetes cluster. We also talk about how Cilium eBPF differs from other sidecar proxies and the potential performance and observability gains. Cilium is an open-source project under the Linux Foundation’s Cloud Native Computing Foundation hub. Strap on your propeller beanie as we try to keep up with guest is Thomas Graf, CTO and Co-Founder of Isovalent. He’s also a co-creator of Cilium and chair of the eBPF Governing Board. We discuss: * The Cilium project, what it does, and what’s in the Cilium 1.12 release * An overview of the Cilium Service Mesh and target use cases * Why Cilium using eBPF is a big deal * Whether the eBPF model is simpler than other sidecar proxies * Whether Cilium Service Mesh replaces another service mesh you might be using today * The Cilium Service Mesh roadmap Show Links: Cilium 1.12 GA: Cilium Service Mesh and other major new features for enterprise Kubernetes – CNCF Cilium Service Mesh – Everything You Need to Know – Isovalent Blog eCHO Episode 51: Life of a Packet with Cilium – YouTube eCHO Episode 53: Life of a Packet in Cilium Continued – YouTube @tgraf__ – Thomas Graf on Twitter Isovalent Blog