Day Two Cloud 154: Can eBPF Replace Sidecar Proxies?
Today’s Day Two Cloud turns the nerd knob to eleven as we delve into kernels, eBPF, sidecar proxies, and more. If you’re an old-school engineer used to working with load balancers and proxies, this show looks at new ways to do application delivery. Our guest is William Morgan, CEO at Buoyant and a creator of the Linkerd service mesh. This episode was spurred by a blog post William wrote. We discuss: * Use cases for service meshes in Kubernetes * What eBPF is and how it works * Why you might want to use eBPF instead of a sidecar proxy * eBPF attack surface and guardrails * Practical use cases * More Show Links: eBPF, sidecars, and the future of the service mesh – Bouyant blog @wm – William Morgan on Twitter William Morgan on LinkedIn Heavy Networking 614: eBPF, Cloud-Native Networking, And Other Modern Networking Trends – Packet Pushers Full Stack Journey 061: Linux Networking And Observability With eBPF And Cilium – Packet Pushers