Thomas Graf is the inventor of Cilium and the co-founder of Isovalent. Cilium is a container networking plugin built on top of eBPF, bringing modern SDN technologies to accelerate your pods. Adam and Craig also discuss the many uses of Christmas trees.

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Chatter of the week

Christmas trees:
- Keep clear (mostly)
- Culinary uses
- Discussed in episodes 104 and 111

News of the week

Google grants $3m to the CNCF to run the Kubernetes infrastructure
AWS Managed Grafana and Prometheus
- In partnership with Grafana Labs
Red Hat acquires Stackrox
- Windows Containers GA in OpenShift 4.6
CNCF Annual Report
KubeCon NA 2020 Transparency Report
Rancher announces Harvester
- I’ll give you the key
Kubernetes 1.20 feature deep-dives:
- Pod impersonation an short-lived volumes
- Third-party device metrics GA
- More granular control of storage permission
Sonobuoy goes beyond conformance
Project Contour security audit
Pulse: stats from Envoy Mobile
Crossplane 1.0
Project Karavi from Dell Technologies
Cluster API provider for Microsoft Azure
Vitess project journey report
Tanzu Gemfire
Kubernetes Security Essentials from the CNCF

Links from the interview

Chains and tables
Berkeley Packet Filter
eBPF
- Episode 91: eBPF and Falco, with Leonard Di Donato
- High level languages for kernel developers
- eBPF Summit 2020
Cilium
- Is it DNS?
- Is it a series of tubes?
BGP
Hubble
Accelerating Envoy and Istio with Cilium
Episode 128: Antrea, with Antonin Bas
Bringing Cilium to GKE with Dataplane v2
Maglev load balancing connection scheduling
Isovalent
- Notes on A16Z’s investment
Thomas Graf on Twitter

Cilium, with Thomas Graf

Kubernetes Podcast from Google