AWS has announced the availability of EKS Anywhere to manage on-premises Kubernetes clusters. As part of this, AWS picked Cilium as the built-in default for networking and security. 🎉
We are excited to announce the availability of the first release of
@ciliumproject
Service Mesh. It introduces an option to run
#ServiceMesh
completely without sidecars while supporting various control plane options
Congrats are in order to our very own,
@lizrice
👏🏼. Her book on “Learning eBPF” is now available! You can download the e-book version here:
Add a ✋🏼, if you’re ready to read the book!
Meet Tetragon -
#eBPF
-based Security Observability & Runtime Enforcement
Tetragon has been part of
@Isovalent
#Cilium
Enterprise for several years. Today, we are open sourcing major parts and open it up for collaboration with the entire community.
🎉It’s official, Isovalent is now part of
@Cisco
! We’re excited to be taking the next step in our journey, developing OSS projects like Cilium and eBPF. Having the backing of Cisco is great news for our team and our customers, and for the OSS communities!
👋 Introducing the Platform Engineer, eBEE! This eBee is a multi-skilled engineer with responsibilities that include building, operating, connecting and securing clusters. 🐝Check out the learning path here:
All three major cloud providers (Google, AWS, and Microsoft) singled out
#Cilium
as the new de facto standard for
#Kubernetes
networking & security!
Read more from Isovalent, the company behind Cilium here:
💥 Read up on mutual authentication, you might need it for the upcoming 1.14 release.... Discover how we're exploring Cilium's sidecar-free mTLS-based authentication, delivering excellent security and performance characteristics! 👇
We are
#hiring
! At the moment we have several open positions within Engineering, Community, Marketing and Sales. Come and join a fast growing team and help us define the future of open source networking today with
@ciliumproject
👋 Meet the Cloud Network Engineer eBEE! This eBee is responsible for connecting clusters to the rest of the network using tools such as BGP or Egress Gateway for connecting clusters together. Check out the learning journey here:
📖 “Learning eBPF provides a comprehensive overview of the technology, from its fundamentals to its advanced features….”—Alexei Starovoitov (Co-creator of eBPF). Ready to start your eBPF journey? Download the e-book by
@lizrice
here:
It was an exciting start for our week with
@Microsoft
announcing a strategic partnership with us
@Isovalent
. Our CTO
@tgraf__
dives deeper into the existing integrations this partnership will unlock for
@Azure
and
#Isovalent
customers.
With adoption of IPv6 on Kubernetes growing, the need for a translation layer between IPv4 and IPv6 arises. NAT46/64 on Cilium will help your transition to IPv6.
Learn more, with Daniel Borkmann, co-creator of eBPF, on this Thursday's Tech Talk.
💭
#Observability
feature of
#Cilium
1.13: The Hubble Datasource Plugin enables
#Grafana
users to get detailed insights into network traffic and correlate it with application-level telemetry-
Introducing Cilium Mesh. Cilium & eBPF powered networking, security, and observability for VMs, servers, and existing networks across cloud, on-prem, and edge.
Cilium 1.15 is here! 🎉
Explore the fantastic features in this release, including:
🔱 : Gateway API 1.0 Support
👮 : Elevated BGP Security
📈 : Twofold Scale Increase for Cluster Mesh
🚢 : Introducing Hubble Flow Exporter
🔎 Full blog here:
"The thing I'm most excited about is security"
@tgraf__
talking about new
#eBPF
security observability and enforcement capabilities coming to
@ciliumproject
at through the new Tetragon tool.
#CNeBPF
.
👋 Embrace the Force of this Friday as we introduce you to our skilled Cloud Architect, eBee! This eBee is responsible for managing, connecting & securing clusters. Explore the learning journey here:
“Call it
#KubernetesCNI
,
#ServiceMesh
, Cloud Native Networking, App Networking, or Secure Service Connectivity, a critical NEW LAYER of enterprise infra stack is emerging”
@danwendlandt
pens his thoughts on our Series B announcement:
💭 With
#Cilium
1.13, we started the development of the
#networking
feature veth replacement. The goal 🤨 : executing eBPF programs inside the pod to achieve almost host network performance-
What is the best way to get started with
#Cilium
or
#eBPF
? With hands-on experience, of course!
Check out the lab section at and dive into various topics, from eBPF and
@ciliumproject
basics up to special use cases.
Today we announce a new project, the eBeeDex! We BEE-lieve in eBPF so much that we’ve taken the project’s official bee mascot, eBee, to 💙 and created an entire hive of eBee's to work together. Come by our booth at
@kubecon_
to collect the stickers:
📣 We are excited to announce the availability of
#Cilium
1.13 📣 A packed release which includes: Gateway API, mTLS datapath, Service Mesh, BIG TCP, SBOM, SNI NetworkPolicy and many more features. Read more:
🚀Cilium 1.14 features a new option to deploy Envoy as a DaemonSet instead of embedded inside Cilium agent. It reduces blast radius and separates lifecycles, which simplifies upgrades. ♻️
Ever had issues with network contention and bandwidth exhaustion in Kubernetes?
Did you know you can use Cilium's Bandwidth Manager to limit a pod's throughput?
Read more on this post by
@nicovibert
🛡️ Use
#Cilium
to get from zero observability and full trust to full observability &
#zerotrust
. Make security decisions based on data, not fear 💪
Read more here:
Excited to share insights into the dynamic world of Kubernetes networking! 🌐 In our blog here, we dive deep into the roles of kube-proxy and iptables, unraveling their significance in the Kubernetes ecosystem 👀.
🛡️ When things go south, you need to do forensics. But how do you do that, in a
#K8s
cluster? Use
#Cilium
, and gain runtime visibility from OS up to code in the pod. Look ino L3/L4/L7 flows!
Thanks to everyone who stopped by yesterday for
@LizRice
’s book signing! We had such a long bee line, that we have decided to add another session today. Come by our
#KubeCon
booth s101 at 14:00 to pick up your copy of Learning
#eBPF
.
To wrap up our tutorial week, let’s focus on a big topic many are interested in right now:
#GatewayAPI
! Walk through our tutorial to learn how to install and configure Gateway API in
#Cilium
!
#Gateway
API support has landed on
#Cilium
! But how do you get started 😕? Fear not, we got you covered. Read how to install, configure and mange it here:
Today Isovalent launches out of stealth with $29M in funding from Andreessen Horowitz, Google, and Cisco and announced our Cilium Enterprise offering.
I'm so grateful to the amazing team members, community members, and customers who made today possible
Don’t miss the buzz, come by our
#KubeCon
booth s101 and meet
@LizRice
today from 12:40 to 13:30 to receive a complimentary signed copy of her new book - Learning
#eBPF
.
Didn't get the chance to get a copy of Natália Réka Ivánkó's co-authored O’Reilly report - Security Observability with
#eBPF
yesterday? Come by our
#KubeCon
booth s101 at 12:45 for another book signing!
Isovalent was identified as one of the 7
#Kubernetes
companies to watch in 2022 by
@loft_sh
:
"I wished I had Cilium years ago to troubleshoot some difficult incidents" & "right place, right time"
#cilium
#ebpf
#revolution
Join us for a technical deep dive of eBPF with Daniel Borkmann, Co-creator and co-maintainer of
#eBPF
and
#Cilium
from Isovalent.
📆 Today, August 31 (sign up and you get the recording after the webinar)
Join here:
Day 2 of the open UK conference- If you didn’t see us yesterday, you still have today to stop by and say hi 👋. Find us on the 3rd floor in the Queen Elizabeth Center II. See you soon 🐝
#SOOCon23
💭
#Networking
features in
#Cilium
1.13: BIG TCP, putting packet payload into a super-size packets, reducing the overhead, improving throughput, and reducing latency-
🎉 We’re thrilled to announce our new strategic partnership with
@containersoluti
, one of the leading independent cloud-native consultancy in Europe! We’re looking forward to the opportunities this collaboration will bring.
💭 One of the main
#networking
features in
#Cilium
1.13 is Gateway API, the new standard for North-South load balancing and traffic routing into
#Kubernetes
Clusters-
Are you at
#SCaLE20X
right now? Stop by our booth for some buzz worthy swag 🐝 & ask our team about
#eBPF
! Bonus: get a signed copy of Natalia's book 😎 📚
A riverview,
#eBeePF
sticker collection, and a signed
#eBPF
book by Liz Rice across room
#250A
at
#CNEBPF
. It couldn't get better than this. Come by the
@isovalent
booth and get your swag!
📘 Author & Chief Open Source Officer, Liz Rice, has provided the golden ✨nugget to learning and understanding eBPF. This book will provide you with great knowledge and examples!
The key to learning eBPF is now here 👉🏼
Isovalent
#Cilium
Enterprise is now Available to
#AKS
customers on the Microsoft Azure Marketplace (Isovalent 🤝
@msPartner
). Read more about the benefits of an upgrade here:
💻 🎤 Join Part 1 (EMEA timezone 🕐) of our Networking webinar Series on Tuesday. Dive into Kubernetes networking w/ Cilium to grasp key features for engineers. 🌐 There's still time to register!
#Kubernetes
#Cilium
#Networking
Team
@isovalent
had strong representation, as always, at
#BPFConf
, the Linux kernel developers' conference that brings
#eBPF
core developers together building the future of eBPF. Slides and photos are at:
📖🔎 We’ve been using eBPF to detect the xz backdoor. 🐝 Apply this out-of-the-box TracingPolicy with Tetragon to start monitoring OpenSSH dependencies for vulnerable versions. Check out a JSON event in the post:
#xz
#backdoor
💭
#Observability
feature of
#Cilium
1.13: Hubble now supports tracing-enabled applications and
#Grafana
Tempo integration, enabling application traceIDs in Hubble's L7 HTTP metrics-
🚀 With the recent release of the eBPF documentary,
@tgraf__
unveils the tale behind eBPF—a journey of friends crafting a nearly invisible yet crucial technology, reshaping tech landscape. A game-changer then, now, & into the future.
#eBPF
#eBPFDocumentary
Coming soon in
@ciliumproject
1.13: SCTP support!
SCTP is commonly used to transport signalling messages in 4G and 5G networks.
You can try it today, with Cilium 1.13.0 RC1.
Guess who's back and BUZZING with excitement for KubeCon... Our eBee! If you spot our bee buzzing around, be sure to hive-five or capture a sweet snapshot to share with us! 🐝 📸
#KubeCon
🤔 Ever wondered about the "golden" signals of Security Observability?
@mauilion
gave a great talk on this & we're providing you with the key learnings below. Watch the recording or review our snapshot.
👀 Here are some insights into the dynamic world of Kubernetes networking! 🌐 In this blog, Jeremy Colvin dives deep into the roles of kube-proxy and iptables, unraveling their significance in the
#Kubernetes
ecosystem!
💥 In the run-up to Cilium's 1.14 release, our CTO and Cofounder, Thomas Graf, reflects on how community input has been a vital contributing factor to the improvement of
#Cilium
Mesh.
We are honored to have been named a Gartner Cool Vendor for 2021 in Cloud Native Networking. Our CEO
@danwendlandt
reflects on how far eBPF and
@ciliumproject
have come, the journey taken to get here, and what's up next for eBPF, Cilium and Isovalent.
🛡️ Security needs control... Deep control. It's time to use
#Cilium
’s
#Tetragon
, and enforce access control on system call level with Cilium Runtime Protection.
Learn more here:
We're thrilled to announce that
@isovalent
has been recognized as a leader in the 2023
@gigaom
Radar Report for Cloud Networking! 🙌
Check out the press release to learn more about this exciting achievement 👇
We are excited about this milestone for the
@ciliumproject
community. Microsoft has picked
#Cilium
#CNI
to bring the power of
#eBPF
to AKS for networking and security:
We're still at
#SCaLE20x
! Follow the little bees & giant bee to find our hive mind at booth 101 👣 🐝. Plush bee will be given to the raffle winner tomorrow! Enter to win here:
On Tuesday, we launched our newest badge “Getting started with Tetragon”. Already 70+ people have earned it. To celebrate we are sending the 100th badge winner a swag box - will it be you? Access the lab and earn your badge now:
Are they even talking to each other? - asked almost every engineer on the planet when debugging their system.
@lambdanis
from Isovalent will be debugging this problem during her talk at
#OPENO11YDAY
Learn about what's buzzing 🐝 during the
#KubeCon
week:
🤔 Wondering if you can use Tetragon without Cilium? Absolutely! Tetragon delivers eBPF-powered awesomeness to your Kubernetes, no matter your CNI choice. Read more: