How Does Cilium Improve K8s Performance?

What is Cilium? What is eBPF? How does Cilium improve Kubernetes? Scott Moore talks to Bill Mulligan at Isovalent about what makes Cilium a better choice for network traffic shaping, queuing, and observability than native K8s implementations.

Episode: 112
Air Date: 02/23/2023
Title: How Does Cilium Improve K8s Performance?
GUEST: Bill Mulligan
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Show Notes

Isovalent: https://isovalent.com/
Cilium: https://cilium.io/

Performance Testing Cilium Blogs:

https://cilium.io/blog/2023/01/25/hetzner-performance-testing/
https://cilium.io/blog/2022/04/12/cilium-standalone-L4LB-XDP/
https://cilium.io/blog/2021/05/11/cni-benchmark/

Hubble: https://github.com/cilium/hubble
Is It Observable: https://isitobservable.io/observability/service-mesh/what-are-cilium-hubble

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