Cilium: Welcome, Vision and Updates
summary
Cilium runs eBPF programs in-kernel to replace iptables/ipvs and provides sidecar-free service mesh and L7 policies, with production adoption: tens of thousands of nodes, hundreds of thousands of pods, clusters reaching 5–6k nodes at Datadog, and GKE shipping Cilium as Data Plane v2. Features demonstrated include Hubble observability, Tetragon runtime enforcement (now open source), multi-cluster routable pod IPs, WireGuard/IPsec encryption, and measurable fixes and performance gains that actually reduce failures.
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chapters (22)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:30Thomas Graf
- 2:41EBF
- 4:19Network
- 6:43Hubble
- 7:18Cilium Service Mesh
- 8:18Cilium Tetragon
- 9:23Cilium 113
- 11:00Datadog
- 11:55Cloud Providers
- 12:19Clusters
- 14:34Service Load Balancing
- 15:28Summary
- 17:03Contribution
- 19:42Google Cloud
- 24:02Getting started
- 25:24Slack
- 26:45Feature Ideas
- 28:50Developer Section
- 31:17Get Help
- 32:30Questions
- 33:02Vision
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