framework
Kernel programmability technology listed among mechanisms CNI plugins use to implement pod networking.
No evidence-backed relationships are recorded.
One operator flipped Cilium to full kube-proxy replacement and woke at 2:47 AM to a SIEM ingesting zero events. The cluster was healthy. The evidence pipeline was not.
Reality
A tutorial walkthrough of kube-proxy is a useful reminder that a ClusterIP is not an interface. The iptables-to-IPVS-to-eBPF sequence is an answer to per-node rule accounting, not taste.
Reality
The integrated product shipped on July 7 and CTech later put the price near $65 million, unconfirmed by either company. The method matters more than the number.
Reality
eBPF uprobes can rebuild Go traces with no SDK in the call path. The cost moves rather than disappears: goroutine correlation, per-version register layouts, and inlined symbols.
Reality
A dev.to walkthrough traces one packet from 10.244.1.5 to 10.244.2.5. The operationally useful part is not the hop count, it is which route table or outer header you get to read.
Reality