Panel Disucssion: Is There Actually a Byte Behind All the Buzz? eBPF in Production!
summary
Panelists report real production deployments: Cilium powers fast L7 NetworkPolicies with Envoy offload, Tetragon and Hubble supply host and flow telemetry, and Google says eBPF runs on millions of machines and GKE began moving to an eBPF data plane in 2019. Performance proves solid; a race in an ENI allocator was diagnosed and fixed (Datadog upstream). Remaining gaps are multi-cloud/multi-cluster observability, program registries and install controls, and a push for composable, well-tested dataplane modules at 15,000‑node scale.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00eBPF in production panel
- 1:11Panelists' roles
- 3:39eBPF in production today
- 7:11Early eBPF challenges
- 12:11Cilium for Kubernetes
- 15:25eBPF community strength
- 20:41eBPF security needs
- 23:50eBPF fragmentation risks
- 26:19eBPF observability gaps
- 30:57Unifying cloud context
- 34:30Standardizing observability
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