Book

Cilium: Up and Running

About this book

Authors Nico Vibert, Filip Nikolic, and James Laverack, all from Isovalent at Cisco (creators of eBPF and Cilium), take you through how Cilium works, the problems it can solve, and how to run it in production. If you’re an experienced platform engineer or network architect who wants to get on top of the next big thing in cloud networking, this book is for you.

• Learn about Kubernetes networking and the role of Cilium
• Dive into the various use cases Cilium addresses
• Understand Cilium’s architecture and how it moves packets around
• Secure workloads through the use of network policies
• Connect multiple clusters for service load balancing and discovery
• Observe application networking performance for troubleshooting and forensics
• Leverage Cilium’s built-in service mesh and networking capabilities for complex traffic engineering"

Cilium is now considered the de facto cloud native networking platform for Kubernetes, connecting, securing, and monitoring millions of applications across thousands of clusters. With such versatility and feature-richness, Cilium can be daunting to learn. This comprehensive guide breaks Cilium down, making it broadly accessible to the increasing number of users who’ll encounter the platform in their careers.

• Nico Vibert, Principal Technical Marketing Engineer

  Nico Vibert is a Principal Technical Marketing Engineer at Isovalent, the company behind the open-source cloud-native solution Cilium. Prior to joining Isovalent, Nico worked in many different roles - operations and support, design and architecture, and technical pre-sales - at companies such as HashiCorp, VMware, and Cisco. In his current role, Nico focuses primarily on creating content to make networking a more approachable field and regularly speaks at events like KubeCon and Cisco Live. Nico has held over 15 networking certifications, including the Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert CCIE (# 22990). Nico is the co-author of the "Cilium: Up and Running" O'Reilly book and is the Lead Subject Matter Expert on the Cilium Certified Associate (CCA) certification.

• Filip Nikolic, Senior Solutions Architect

  Filip is currently working at Isovalent - the creators of Cilium and eBPF.
  He is actively contributing to a number of CNCF projects such as Cilium, Tetragon, ArgoCD, Minkube and many more.
  With his networking and platform engineering background he has worked in several industries and focuses on improving cloud native technologies.

• James Laverack, Principal Customer Success Architect

  James is a principal customer success architect at Isovalent and a software engineer and conference speaker with over a decade of industry experience. James is also an upstream contributor to multiple CNCF projects as well as a former Kubernetes release lead (v1.24 “Stargazer”).