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This site is kind of an ad/content marketing for Cilium[0], a container networking solution for container orchestrators (most notably Kubernetes). But then aga
by hardwaresofton 6y ago
This site is kind of an ad/content marketing for Cilium[0], a container networking solution for container orchestrators (most notably Kubernetes).
But then again Cilium's main differentiator is utilizing the advanced support for eBPF[1] in the kernel and it was launched by a Thomas Graf (a kernel developer)[2], so it feels appropriate. From the QCon description:
> Thomas Graf is Co-Founder & CTO at Covalent and creator of the Cilium project. Before this, Thomas has been a Linux kernel developer at Red Hat for many years. Over the more than 15 years working on the Linux kernel, Thomas was involved in a variety of networking and security subsystems. For the past couple of years, Thomas has been involved in the development of BPF and XDP.
Nice to see kernel developers getting something for their thankless hard work. I haven't given Cilium a try on my own k8s cluster, but I hope to give it a spin soon. I don't think I need the majority of the features but the inter-pod communication speedup and cluster-mesh features are attractive to me.
[0]: https://docs.cilium.io https://docs.cilium.io
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley_Packet_Filter https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley_Packet_Filter
[2]: https://qconsf.com/speakers/thomas-graf https://qconsf.com/speakers/thomas-graf