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Bill Mulligan 🐝🐝🐝 @breakawaybilly.bsky.social · 16h

A joke IPX implementation for Linux using eBPF

GitHub - twisted-pear/ipx_wrap: A joke IPX implementation for Linux using eBPF.

A joke IPX implementation for Linux using eBPF. Contribute to twisted-pear/ipx_wrap development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com

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Bill Mulligan 🐝🐝🐝 @breakawaybilly.bsky.social · 16h

My transformation into a Linux kernel hacker continues, this time with a talk at Linux Plumbers Conference

I'll be talking about the role the eBPF Foundation is playing in the ecosystem, the progress we have made so far, and get feedback on where we should go next

lpc.events/event/19/con...

Bill Mulligan 🐝🐝🐝 @breakawaybilly.bsky.social · 16h

An MCP server and CLI that turns natural-language scheduling intents into concrete scheduling strategies for the Gthulhu scheduler API

github.com/Gthulhu/mcp

GitHub - Gthulhu/mcp: Transforming Gthulhu into an AI-driven scheduler.

Transforming Gthulhu into an AI-driven scheduler. Contribute to Gthulhu/mcp development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com

Bill Mulligan 🐝🐝🐝 @breakawaybilly.bsky.social · 1d

MCP Server for Linux Scheduler Management and Auto optimization

GitHub - eunomia-bpf/schedcp: MCP Server for Linux Scheduler Management and Auto optimization

MCP Server for Linux Scheduler Management and Auto optimization - eunomia-bpf/schedcp

github.com

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Bill Mulligan 🐝🐝🐝 @breakawaybilly.bsky.social · 2d

Performance monitoring agent for eBPF programs

github.com/trndcenter/b...

GitHub - trndcenter/bpfmeter: Performance monitoring agent for eBPF programs

Performance monitoring agent for eBPF programs. Contribute to trndcenter/bpfmeter development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com

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Bill Mulligan 🐝🐝🐝 @breakawaybilly.bsky.social · 8d

eBPF Foundation has a new website to keep up with the pace of what we are doing:

100k to academic research
Launch of inaugural Community & Advocacy Fellowship Program
SOWs to improve eBPF selftests and hardware architecture support
Sponsoring LPC to bring developers together
6 case studies

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Bill Mulligan 🐝🐝🐝 @breakawaybilly.bsky.social · 9d

“There are still workloads that run best on VMs. Cilium makes it easy for users to see traffic flows and define network policies between VMs and Kubernetes clusters running in the same environment.”

See why Nutanix chose Cilium

Nutanix

Nutanix needed a more modern, efficient, and easier-to-manage CNI for its managed Kubernetes platform (NKP), especially as existing solutions posed complexity in configuration and lacked performance…

www.cncf.io

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Bill Mulligan 🐝🐝🐝 @breakawaybilly.bsky.social · 10d

Kubernetes networking has gone from “how do we get pods talking?” to “how do we orchestrate distributed AI pipelines across thousands of GPUs with microsecond latency?” And the answer, at least for GKE, is Cilium and eBPF 🐝

cloud.google.com/blog/product...

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Bill Mulligan 🐝🐝🐝 @breakawaybilly.bsky.social · 13d

You have to love the title Creating a Linux “Yogurt-phone” — with netkit and a grain of eBPF because it turns kernel tinkering into a science fair project. Instead of two yogurt cups tied with a string, we have network namespaces and netkit interfaces, tied with eBPF

Creating a Linux “Yogurt-phone” — with netkit and a grain of eBPF | Yet another enthusiast blog!

This post is the second in a 2 part series:

blog.yadutaf.fr

Bill Mulligan 🐝🐝🐝 @breakawaybilly.bsky.social · 14d

"eBPF opened a whole new world that wasn't possible before"

Hear why Karim chose eBPF for Kerno and why many more companies and starts will too

Interview with Karim Traiaia, Co-Founder of Kerno

This time I sat down with Karim Traiaia, the Co-founder of Kerno, a company that helps troubleshoot cloud applications.

ebpfchirp.substack.com

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Bill Mulligan 🐝🐝🐝 @breakawaybilly.bsky.social · 15d

An example of using Aya (eBPF for Rust) to monitor nanosleep calls in Kubernetes

GitHub - lielfr/aya-nanosleep-k8s: An example of using Aya (eBPF for Rust) to monitor nanosleep calls in Kubernetes

An example of using Aya (eBPF for Rust) to monitor nanosleep calls in Kubernetes - lielfr/aya-nanosleep-k8s

github.com

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Bill Mulligan 🐝🐝🐝 @breakawaybilly.bsky.social · 15d

SIGCOMM hosted the third edition of the eBPF workshop and Paul Chaignon pulled together all the papers and presentations in to one place. From profiling XDP to scheduling BPF programs, lots of interesting research topics this year!

Third eBPF Workshop

This post presents the material (papers and presentation slides) from the third edition of the eBPF workshop at ACM SIGCOMM 2025.

pchaigno.github.io

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Bill Mulligan 🐝🐝🐝 @breakawaybilly.bsky.social · 16d

Have you made the switch to Cilium yet?

blog.joshdow.ca/homelab-part...

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Bill Mulligan 🐝🐝🐝 @breakawaybilly.bsky.social · 16d

AI is everywhere, but is it helping or hurting OSS? I'll dive into this questions with Liz Rice and Joe Stringer during our talk at the KubeCon Maintainers Summit

Maintainer Summit North America 2025: Workshop: Maintaining Project Quality an...

View more about this event at Maintainer Summit North America 2025

sched.co

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Bill Mulligan 🐝🐝🐝 @breakawaybilly.bsky.social · 17d

Cilium becoming the default for OVHcloud too now. Is there any cloud left without Cilium?

Support other network plugins (CNI) than canal in MKS · Issue #346 · ovh/public-cloud-roadmap

Add support for multiple network plugins (e.g. calico, cilium, weave,...) and let the user choose/define it at cluster creation through the GUI, CLI and Terraform.

github.com

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Bill Mulligan 🐝🐝🐝 @breakawaybilly.bsky.social · 17d

Python Frontend to LLVM IR for eBPF programs in Pure Python

GitHub - varun-r-mallya/Python-BPF: Python Frontend to LLVM IR for eBPF programs in Pure Python

Python Frontend to LLVM IR for eBPF programs in Pure Python - varun-r-mallya/Python-BPF

github.com

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Bill Mulligan 🐝🐝🐝 @breakawaybilly.bsky.social · 20d

A golang library and webserver for fast TCP & TLS fingerprinting, powered by eBPF

GitHub - robalb/ebpf-web-fingerprint: a golang library and webserver for fast TCP & TLS fingerprinting, powered by eBPF

a golang library and webserver for fast TCP & TLS fingerprinting, powered by eBPF - robalb/ebpf-web-fingerprint

github.com

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Bill Mulligan 🐝🐝🐝 @breakawaybilly.bsky.social · 20d

First Cilium became the default for every major cloud provider’s Kubernetes distribution. Now it’s the first and only CNI certified across the entire Red Hat ecosystem.

Home lab, cloud, on premise, what else is left for Cilium to become the standard?

Red Hat Certifies Isovalent Networking for Kubernetes on OpenShift Hosted Control Planes

Isovalent Networking for Kubernetes is the first and only CNI certified for Red Hat OpenShift Hosted Control Planes (HCP). Learn how enterprises can deploy Cilium with OpenShift HCP and ROSA to achieve...

isovalent.com

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Bill Mulligan 🐝🐝🐝 @breakawaybilly.bsky.social · 21d

A Real-Time Linux File Open Profiler using eBPF

GitHub - preetpalbugs/linux-ebpf-profiler: A real-time Linux file open profiler built with eBPF and Python. A project to explore systems programming and kernel observability.

A real-time Linux file open profiler built with eBPF and Python. A project to explore systems programming and kernel observability. - preetpalbugs/linux-ebpf-profiler

github.com

Bill Mulligan 🐝🐝🐝 @breakawaybilly.bsky.social · 21d

CiliumCon is coming back again for KubeCon Amsterdam (where we hosted the first one in 2023!)

CfP is open until November 2nd. DM me if you want some help

CiliumCon | LF Events

Cilium is an open source, widely-used, and highly scalable cloud native networking, observability, and security solution based on the kernel technology eBPF, that connects workloads in Kubernetes and…

events.linuxfoundation.org

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Bill Mulligan 🐝🐝🐝 @breakawaybilly.bsky.social · 22d

The Hubble Observer is a small observability component that monitors network flows within Cilium

github.com/onzack/hubbl...

GitHub - onzack/hubble-observer: The Hubble Observer is a small observability component that monitors network flows within Cilium.

The Hubble Observer is a small observability component that monitors network flows within Cilium. - onzack/hubble-observer

github.com

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Bill Mulligan 🐝🐝🐝 @breakawaybilly.bsky.social · 22d

For its academic research grants, eBPF Foundation received 27 proposals from 23 universities, ranging from improving verifier safety guarantees to enabling new use cases where eBPF can make a difference.

Two proposals will each receive a $50,000 research grant

ebpf.foundation/ebpf-foundat...

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Bill Mulligan 🐝🐝🐝 @breakawaybilly.bsky.social · 24d

Last week to apply for the first eBPF Foundation Community & Advocacy Fellowship program!

If the last decade was about building the technology, this is about building the community that will take eBPF forward. Open until Friday!

eBPF Foundation Announces Community & Advocacy Fellowship Program – eBPF

The eBPF Foundation is excited to announce a new “eBPF Foundation Community & Advocacy Fellowship” to reward and support innovative ideas that will grow the eBPF ecosystem for an increasingly global…

ebpf.foundation

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Bill Mulligan 🐝🐝🐝 @breakawaybilly.bsky.social · 29d

Going to conferences has changed the positively changed the trajectory of my career many times. Here is your chance to go to KubeCon for free and why Isovalent sponsors this opportunity

The Dan Kohn Scholarship Application Guide: Your Fast-Track to KubeCon

At Isovalent, we support the Dan Kohn scholarship fund because we believe every perspective makes the cloud-native ecosystem better. Inclusion isn’t an afterthought; it’s how great technology—and...

isovalent.com

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Bill Mulligan 🐝🐝🐝 @breakawaybilly.bsky.social · Sep 9

or my latest LFX mentorship, I worked with Oluchi Nwenyi to develop technical outcome pages for the Cilium project.

They cover Zero Trust Networking, Network Automation, Cost and Carbon Savings, Multi-Cloud Connectivity, Tool Consolidation and demonstrate to end users to value of using Cilium.

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