Cilium, eBPF and Beyond

In this podcast, Isovalent's Liz Rice discusses her involvement with several open source projects, such as the Cilium project and the eBPF platform. With the graduation of Cilium in the CNCF, Liz explains its networking and security capabilities and how it benefits the cloud-native ecosystem. She also dives into eBPF and discusses the implications of AI. The talk concludes with an exploration about open source communities, recommendations regarding emerging trends in the open source world, and Liz's anticipation for the future of Cilium and the impact of eBPF.

00:00 Introduction and Guest Background
01:10 Understanding Cilium and its Role in Networking
02:15 Exploring the Origins and Impact of eBPF
04:21 Insights into the eBPF Summit and Community Events
08:00 The Role of Open Source in Technology Development
12:40 The Intersection of AI and Open Source
18:21 Future Developments in Cilium and Open Source
21:02 Conclusion and Final Thoughts

Guest: Liz Rice is Chief Open Source Officer with eBPF specialists Isovalent, creators of the Cilium cloud native networking, security and observability project. She was Chair of the CNCF’s Technical Oversight Committee in 2019-2022, and Co-Chair of KubeCon + CloudNativeCon in 2018. She is also the author of Container Security, published by O’Reilly.
She has a wealth of software development, team, and product management experience from working on network protocols and distributed systems, and in digital technology sectors such as VOD, music, and VoIP. When not writing code, or talking about it, Liz loves riding bikes in places with better weather than her native London, competing in virtual races on Zwift, and making music under the pseudonym Insider Nine.