Exploring the Capabilities of eBPF: An Interview with Author & Chief Open Source Officer, Liz Rice
On this week’s episode of Dev Interrupted, we talk to Liz Rice, Chief Open Source Officer at Isovalent, and author of the book Learning eBPF: Programming the Linux Kernel for Enhanced Observability, Networking, and Security.
Liz is an expert on open source, containers, and cloud-native technologies, and joins us to discuss her book, what she describes as some of the eBPF “superpowers” people are talking about, and some of the fascinating projects surrounding eBPF like Project Kepler.
Liz also gives advice to engineers looking to try their hand at writing a book.
“We can use [eBPF] to do things like modify network packets, or redirect network packets to build networking functionality, or potentially make policy decisions for security reasons. Whether that’s dropping network packets or permitting or denying certain activities to happen from a security perspective, having the ability to modify how the kernel behaves and modify it dynamically gives us superpowers, and that’s why I am really excited about it.” — Liz Rice
Episode Highlights:
- (1:38) Liz’s background
- (6:20) What is eBPF?
- (12:30) Advice for engineers who want to write a book
- (15:35) What is Cilium?
- (18:09) Security & visibility
- (27:27) Project Kepler
- (31:50) The future of cloud-native
Dan Lines: What you think of the future?
Liz Rice: There’s a lot of interesting aspects and interesting tools being developed. There’s a lot of security companies out there, and it feels every day somebody’s coming out with an idea for their tool in eBPF.
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