is a programming language and runtime to extend operating systems
”like javascript or Lua for kernel developers” “like Handling events in the kernel”
- Why?
- It takes very long for a change to come in the kernel
- gives programmability in the kernel to innovate quicker
- how
- eBPF language (higher languages → eBPF bytecode)
- eBPF runtime (jit)
- properties
- secure
- efficiënt
- portable
- cases
- katran (load balancing at meta)
- cilium in managed Kubernetes
- android ebpf loader traffic accounting / GPU memory accounting
- observability
- isovalent strategic partnership with grafana
- tools
- hubble-ui
- http-observability
- grafana tempo http tracing
- display proces ancestry tree