Topic

Linux Kernel

The kernel at the base of most server and container infrastructure, whose hooks, syscall interface and packet-filtering subsystems determine what platform tooling can observe and enforce.

Current clusters

build1 publisher

Cilium 1.19 replaces the per-pod Envoy with one eBPF program per node

Cilium 1.19 puts routing, mTLS and observability in one eBPF program per node, with a single Envoy per node for Layer 7. The 100 GB of RAM the post says that frees assumes 1,000 pods at the top of the sidecar range.

Publishers:dev.to

Reality

Evidence24
Adoption38
Hype gap+45
Incentives: Insufficient
Confidence34