Cilium Weekly Feature #2

Originally published on LinkedIn. This week’s new Cilium feature focuses again on the Cilium CLI – a must-have tool for Cilium users. 🤖 Release 0.14 of the Cilium CLI came out last week and there were a few cool things I highlighted in the demo below. 📺 The biggest change is how the Cilium CLI […]

Migrating from Ingress to Gateway API

It’s been a little while since I last published anything on my personal website but I have been creating quite a lot of content over on isovalent.com and posting a lot of Cilium updates on LinkedIn. Most of the content over there is long-form and there is a little feature I discovered this morning that […]

Cilium Cluster Mesh Service Affinity

Cilium Cluster Mesh Service Affinity is a cool feature to achieve smarter load balancing across clusters.

AKS Bring Your Own CNI With Cilium

Azure recently released a Bring Your Own CNI feature – this works great with Cilium. Watch to learn more!

First look into…. containerlab

There’s been many times in my career where I’ve wanted to build virtual networking labs – not just for testing network designs but primarily for learning. While studying for my CCIE, I remember using GNS3. It was pretty good but not always stable. I eventually moved to renting physical racks as I was spending as […]

KubeCon EU 2022 Wrap-Up

Starting a new job can be daunting. Attending your first KubeCon is certainly overwhelming. Starting a new job at a fast-paced startup, at KubeCon, while your suitcase has gone missing between Paris and Valencia was… memorable. When I decided to join Isovalent, I thought it would be extremely convenient to have my first day coinciding […]

Why I joined Isovalent

Networking is a hereditary thing for me. My mum worked for France Telecom – the national service provider – and my brother studied networks at university and started his career as a network consultant. It was incidentally his fault I ended up doing networking. He once left me a heavy training book and recommended I […]

Exploring eBPF – Part 3: Getting Started with Hubble

Welcome to the third post in my eBPF series: in my first post, I introduced eBPF and walked through how to use a sample code, in the second post, I talked about Cilium, an eBPF-based networking plugin for Kubernetes. In this third post, we’re going to jump straight from the previous post and leverage Cilium’s […]

Exploring eBPF – Part 2: Getting Started with Cilium

This is the second post in my eBPF series: in my first post, I shared my experience with applying my first basic eBPF code through the use of a tool called Bumblebee. In this part 2, I’m going to check out what is probably the most popular eBPF programs: Cilium. In part 3, we’ll look […]

Exploring eBPF – Part 1

I’ve been keeping an eye on eBPF for a little while. In fact, the first time I properly paid attention was when listening to one of my favourite Cloud podcasts: eBPF also caught my eye because the leading eBPF company out there (Isovalent) was cofounded by leaders in the cloud networking space and because they […]