Cilium, eBPF, and Modern Kubernetes Networking with Bill Mulligan

About this episode

This episode discusses the challenges of modern Kubernetes networking and the role of eBPF and Cilium in addressing these issues.

Modern cloud-native systems are built on highly dynamic, distributed infrastructure where containers spin up and down constantly, services communicate across clusters, and traditional networking assumptions break down. Linux networking was designed decades ago around static IPs and linear rule processing, which makes it increasingly difficult to achieve scale in Kubernetes environments. At the same time,

People in this episode

Guest: Bill Mulligan

Topics covered

• Kubernetes
• eBPF
• Cilium
• cloud-native systems
• networking

Keywords

• dynamic infrastructure
• containers
• services
• Linux networking
• scale

Mentioned in this episode

Products: Kubernetes, Cilium, eBPF

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