Cilium’s Evolution: The Founding Story of Cilium

How did Cilium get started? Thomas Graf, Co-Creator of Cilium, explores the foundation story of the Cilium open source project: how we got started, how it relates to eBPF superpowers, and what lead to all major cloud providers adopting it as the default networking and security layer for at least one of their managed Kubernetes platforms.

0:00 Cilium Introduction
1:43 What is eBPF?
4:25 Why did we create Cilium? What are all Cilium projects?
5:50 The origins of Cilium - Founding Team
6:44 Kubernetes Networking
9:18 Network Security & Encryption
11:22 Hubble - Network Observability
13:11 Cluster Mesh - Multi-Cluster Kubernetes
14:40 Google & AWS pick Cilium
16:08 Tetragon
20:00 Load-Balancing
20:48 Timescape
23:51 Service Mesh
26:54 Service Mesh - Split between proxy and eBPF?
30:08 Isovalent and Grafana Labs
30:48 The Roadmap ahead
32:50 Q&A