Cilium, with Thomas Graf

Thomas Graf is the inventor of Cilium and the co-founder of Isovalent. Cilium is a container networking plugin built on top of eBPF, bringing modern SDN technologies to accelerate your pods. Adam and Craig also discuss the many uses of Christmas trees.

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Chatter of the week

• Christmas trees:
  • Keep clear (mostly)
  • Culinary uses
  • Discussed in episodes 104 and 111

News of the week

• Google grants $3m to the CNCF to run the Kubernetes infrastructure
• AWS Managed Grafana and Prometheus
  • In partnership with Grafana Labs
• Red Hat acquires Stackrox
  • Windows Containers GA in OpenShift 4.6
• CNCF Annual Report
• KubeCon NA 2020 Transparency Report
• Rancher announces Harvester
  • I’ll give you the key
• Kubernetes 1.20 feature deep-dives:
  • Pod impersonation an short-lived volumes
  • Third-party device metrics GA
  • More granular control of storage permission
• Sonobuoy goes beyond conformance
• Project Contour security audit
• Pulse: stats from Envoy Mobile
• Crossplane 1.0
• Project Karavi from Dell Technologies
• Cluster API provider for Microsoft Azure
• Vitess project journey report
• Tanzu Gemfire
• Kubernetes Security Essentials from the CNCF

Links from the interview

• Chains and tables
• Berkeley Packet Filter
• eBPF
  • Episode 91: eBPF and Falco, with Leonard Di Donato
  • High level languages for kernel developers
  • eBPF Summit 2020
• Cilium
  • Is it DNS?
  • Is it a series of tubes?
• BGP
• Hubble
• Accelerating Envoy and Istio with Cilium
• Episode 128: Antrea, with Antonin Bas
• Bringing Cilium to GKE with Dataplane v2
• Maglev load balancing connection scheduling
• Isovalent
  • Notes on A16Z’s investment
• Thomas Graf on Twitter