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
@tgraf__ – Thomas Graf on Twitter
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