New Video: Pod Traffic Rate-Limiting with Cilium

Enforcing traffic rate limiting with Cilium!

BGP with Cilium

A look at running BGP on Cilium!

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 […]

HCP Packer Part 3: Integration with Terraform Run Tasks

In this third post in my HCP Packer series (you can also read Part 1 (Getting Started with HCP Packer) and Part 2 (Building a Go Client for HCP Packer)), I am going to cover some new features that have only just come out, as part of the General Availability of HCP Packer. I had […]

Deep Dive into Kubernetes Gateway API

What I find fascinating with Kubernetes is that, despite its popularity, it is always changing and evolving. Large-scale adoption brings more complex requirements and challenges. But bringing new technical features isn’t always the most difficult challenge – the complexity is in adapting Kubernetes to fit its operational model. That’s why the Kubernetes Gateway APIs were […]

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 […]