Thread by @richburroughs

Next up I’m watching the Cilium project updates with @tgraf__, @lbernail, @purvid, and @lizrice :) #KubeCon

Wow this is pretty packed :) #KubeCon

Cilium uses eBPF and Envoy for networking, security, observability and service mesh. #KubeCon

I don’t think I knew Cilium was a service mesh too :) #KubeCon

The list of things it can do just as a CNI is 🤯#KubeCon

There’s a service mesh option with Istio and a sidecar but the new Envoy option is sidecar free. #KubeCon

They’ve just open sourced Tetragon which was part of Isovalent’s commercial product. github.com/cilium/tetragon #KubeCon

Now @lbernail is talking about how they use Cilium at Datadog. #KubeCon

They started off using up using iptables and then IPVS with kube-proxy for load balancing but both had issues. #KubeCon

They started as Cilium users at Datadog, but ended up becoming contributors. The Cilium maintainers are very open and welcoming #KubeCon

Now @purvid is talking about how they’re using Cilium in the GKE Dataplane V2. #KubeCon

They are happy that Google was the first cloud provider to adopt Cilium. They are seeing customers migrate from iptables to Cilium. #KubeCon

Some places you can go to get started with Cilium. #KubeCon

Liz talked about contributing to the project in a much broader sense than just code contributions, which I love. #KubeCon