Istio 1.0 was released last week. From the Cilium community, we would like to congratulate all Istio contributors for this massive effort. We have been fortunate to participate in the community by contributing to Istio and by helping several users moving towards production with Istio and Cilium.
To celebrate the Cilium project hitting 1.0, we wanted to take a moment to share the broader story behind how BPF and Cilium are driving the biggest change in the past two decades of Linux networking and security, and invite you to join in on the fun. We're just getting started!
The Linux kernel community recently announced bpfilter, which will replace the long-standing in-kernel implementation of iptables with high-performance network filtering powered by Linux BPF, all while guaranteeing a non-disruptive transition for Linux users.
The Cilium team is happy to announce tech preview support for gRPC-aware filtering!
There is a lot of excitement around Istio this week at KubeCon. We are getting pinged multiple times a day now with questions on how exactly Cilium and Istio relate to each other. Istio abstracts away a lot of networking specific complexity and provides visibility and control to application teams. We couldn't agree more with the moving networking to Layer 7 and provide the necessary instruments for efficient operation at the layer where it makes sense:the application protocol. This blog post serves to answer a simple question:How is Istio related to Cilium? Can I use both together? Will one benefit from the other?
The v4.15 merge window is open and LWN.net already has a summary on part 1 out. Which contains a BPF section listing some of the new things
This is issue 12 of the regular newsletter around BPF written by Alexander Alemayhu. It summarizes ongoing development, presentations, videos and other information related to BPF and XDP. It is released roughly once a week.
Linux 4.13 was released last week and net-next closed around the same time. The last `[GIT] Networking` pull request includes a couple of BPF fixes and so do the two after the merge window opened up as well. See the dates for all the details
This is issue 10 of the regular newsletter around BPF written by Alexander Alemayhu. It summarizes ongoing development, presentations, videos and other information related to BPF and XDP. It is released roughly once a week.
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