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Videos

WireGuard Node-To-Node Encryption on Cilium

[10:44] In this video, learn about a new feature: Cilium Transparent Encryption with WireGuard can now encrypt traffic node-to-node!

Nico Vibert
Nico Vibert
Videos

Cilium Gateway API – TLS Termination

[06:39] In this video, Senior Technical Marketing Engineer Nico Vibert walks you through how Cilium Gateway API can route HTTPS traffic into your cluster.

Nico Vibert
Nico Vibert
Videos

Cilium Gateway API – HTTP Header Modifier

[05:22] In this short video, Senior Technical Marketing Engineer Nico Vibert walks you through how to use Cilium Gateway API to modify HTTP headers.

Nico Vibert
Nico Vibert
Videos

Cilium BIG TCP

[11:37] With Cilium 1.13 comes a new exciting feature that enables faster performance and lower latency through the network stack: BIG TCP.

Nico Vibert
Nico Vibert
Blogs

Cilium 1.13 – Gateway API, mTLS datapath, Service Mesh, BIG TCP, SBOM, SNI NetworkPolicy, …

Announcing Cilium 1.13 - Gateway API, mTLS datapath, Service Mesh, BIG TCP, SBOM, SNI NetworkPolicy - and many more features!

Thomas Graf
Thomas Graf
Blogs

BIG Performances with BIG TCP on Cilium

With Cilium, you can now leverage BIG TCP with IPv4 or IPv6 to improve performance through the Linux network stack.

Nico Vibert
Nico Vibert
Labs

Cilium IPv6 Networking and Observability

Learn how simple IPv6 can be installed and operated with Cilium and Hubble. With Kubernetes’ IPv6 support improving in recent releases and Dual Stack Generally Available in Kubernetes 1.23, it’s time to learn about IPv6 on Kubernetes. You might be wondering “How on Earth am I going to be able to operate this?” Good news – you’re in the right place. This lab will walk you through how to deploy a IPv4/IPv6 Dual Stack Kubernetes cluster and install Cilium and Hubble to benefit from their networking and observability capabilities. In particular, visibility of IPv6 flows is absolutely essential. IPv6’s slow adoption is primarily caused by fears it would be hard to operate and manage. As you will see, a tool such as Hubble will help operators visualize and understand their IPv6 network better.

Videos

Cilium Gateway API – Mini Demo

[03:23] In this brief demo, we introduce a new Cilium 1.13 feature: support for Kubernetes Gateway API !

Nico Vibert
Nico Vibert
Videos

Ingress To Gateway Migration – Mini-Demo

[02:26] In this brief demo, we test a new tool called Ingress2Gateway that lets you convert Kubernetes Ingress resources to Gateway API resources.

Nico Vibert
Nico Vibert
Labs

L7 Load-Balancing with Kubernetes Services + Annotations

Kubernetes does not natively support gRPC Load Balancing out of the box. Learn how to use Cilium’s embedded Envoy proxy to achieve load-balancing for L7 services, with a simple annotation.

Videos

Cilium L7 Load-Balancing with K8S Services – Mini Demo

[01:01] In Cilium 1.13, you can now use Cilium’s embedded Envoy proxy to achieve load-balancing for L7 services, with a simple annotation.

Nico Vibert
Nico Vibert
Labs

Isovalent Enterprise for Cilium: Zero Trust Visibility

Creating the right Network Policies can be difficult. In this lab, you will use Hubble metrics to build a Network Policy Verdict dashboard in Grafana showing which flows need to be allowed in your policy approach.

Videos

Cilium Shared LB – Mini Demo

[01:13] In Cilium 1.13, Ingress Resource can now share Kubernetes LoadBalancer Resources. Watch the mini demo to learn more!

Nico Vibert
Nico Vibert
Videos

Cilium Traffic Splitting – Mini Demo

[01:30] Cilium 1.13 comes with a fully integrated with a HTTP traffic splitting engine!

Nico Vibert
Nico Vibert
Videos

InternalTrafficPolicy on Cilium – Mini Demo

[01:47] In this mini-demo, you will learn about internalTrafficPolicy support on Cilium! This feature was added with Cilium 1.13.

Nico Vibert
Nico Vibert
Videos

Cilium LB IPAM – Mini Demo

[01:41] In this mini-demo, you will get an insight into Load-Balancer IP Address Management support on Cilium! This feature was added with Cilium 1.13.

Nico Vibert
Nico Vibert
Videos

Cilium SCTP – Mini Demo

[01:21] In this mini-demo, you will get an insight into SCTP support on Cilium! This feature was added with Cilium 1.13.

Nico Vibert
Nico Vibert
Videos

Cilium BGP Service Advertisement – Mini Demo

[01:09] What’s new in Cilium 1.13 is the ability to use Cilium to advertise not just the Pod IP range but Kubernetes Service IPs.

Nico Vibert
Nico Vibert
Labs

SCTP on Cilium

SCTP (Stream Control Transmission Protocol) is a transport-layer protocol used for communication between applications. It is similar to TCP, but it provides additional features such as multi-homing and message fragmentation. Applications that require reliable, ordered delivery of data, but also need the ability to handle multiple streams of data simultaneously can use SCTP. SCTP is primarily used by service providers and mobile operators. While SCTP support for Kubernetes Services, Endpoint and NetworkPolicy was introduced in Kubernetes 1.12, you still need a CNI to support it. Good news: basic support for SCTP was introduced in Cilium 1.13!

Labs

Cilium LoadBalancer IPAM and BGP Service Advertisement

BGP support was initially introduced in Cilium 1.10 and subsequent improvements have been made since, such as the recent introduction of IPv6 support in Cilium 1.12. In Cilium 1.13, that support was enhanced with the introduction of Load Balancer IPAM and BGP Service address advertisements. In this lab, you will learn about both these new features and how they can simplify your network connectivity operations.

Blogs

Tutorial: Tips and Tricks to install Cilium

Ever wonder how to install a specific version of Cilium? Or whether to use Helm or the cilium-cli? Let's look at the many ways to install Cilium.

Nico Vibert
Nico Vibert
Blogs

Badges for Cilium Labs: Catch ‘em over the holidays!

We now have badges for Isovalent certified Cilium hands-on labs. Collect all four of them over the holidays.

Roland Wolters
Roland Wolters
Blogs

“How the Hive Came To Bee” – a story of eBPF and Cilium so far

In this 3-part webinar series, Isovalent developers tell the story of how and why eBPF was created, how eBPF works and how Cilium was born.

Nico Vibert
Nico Vibert
Videos

Cilium as an eBPF use case (How the Hive came to Bee Series)

[39:52] The final part of the How the Hive Came to Bee series is presented by Joe Stringer (Cilium maintainer).

Joe Stringer
Videos

A Technical Deep Dive of eBPF (How the Hive Came to Bee Series)

[60:56] Join us for the second session of our eBPF Creators webinar series to learn how eBPF works at the kernel level. You will learn how eBPF functions under the hood, discuss the internal workings, and see “how things are actually done” with eBPF.

Daniel Borkmann
Videos

The History of eBPF (How the Hive Came to Bee Series)

[52:11] Tune in to the first session of our eBPF Creators' webinar series to hear how eBPF was started, and what challenges that can be solved with eBPF that was impossible before. In this session you will learn the impact of eBPF and how it is fundamentally changing networking, tracing, and security.

John Fastabend
Building a secure and maintainable PaaS
Case studies

Building a secure and maintainable PaaS

Capital One needed to scale their PaaS to multiple teams - but required secure network isolation, visibility and minimal performance overhead. Isovalent Cilium Enterprise met all requirements and scaled past the iptables limits. Hubble’s additional observability capabilities helped their teams to do more from the start.

Building a scalable Kubernetes platform
Case studies

Building a scalable Kubernetes platform

Isovalent helped PostFinance to build a scalable Kubernetes platform to run mission-critical banking software in production. By migrating to Cilium as the default CNI for kubernetes, they were able to solve their challenges regarding scale, observability and latency. The network was made visible, improving troubleshooting, enabling forensic analysis and transparently encrypt network traffic.

Blogs

Microsoft and Isovalent bring eBPF-based Networking and Security to Azure

Microsoft and Isovalent enter a strategic partnership to bring eBPF-based Cilium and Tetragon to Azure and AKS.

Thomas Graf
Thomas Graf
Videos

SRv6 on Cilium – An Introductory Demo

[05:40] In this demo, Isovalent Staff Software Engineer Louis DeLosSantos walks through an introductory demo of SRv6 on Cilium, for a L3VPN use case. The demo was first shown live during eBPF Day North America 2022.

Louis DeLosSantos
Louis DeLosSantos
Labs

Cilium Host Firewall

Ever since its inception, Cilium has supported Kubernetes Network Policies to enforce traffic control to and from pods at L3/L4. But Cilium Network Policies even go even further: by leveraging eBPF, it can provide greater visibility into packets and enforce traffic policies at L7 and can filter traffic based on criteria such as FQDN, protocol (such as kafka, grpc), etc… Creating and manipulating these Network Policies is done declaratively using YAML manifests. What if we could apply the Kubernetes Network Policy operating model to our hosts? Wouldn’t it be nice to have a consistent security model across not just our pods, but also the hosts running the pods? Let’s look at how the Cilium Host Firewall can achieve this. In this lab, we will install SSH on the nodes of a Kind cluster, then create Cluster-wide Network Policies to regulate how the nodes can be accessed using SSH. The Control Plane node will be used as a bastion to access the other nodes in the cluster.

Labs

Cilium Gateway API

In this short lab, you will learn about Gateway API, a new Kubernetes standard on how to route traffic into a Kubernetes cluster. The Gateway API is the next generation of the Ingress API. Gateway API addresses some the Ingress limitations by providing an extensible, role-based and generic model to configure advanced L7 traffic routing capabilities into a Kubernetes cluster. In this lab, you will learn how you can use the Cilium Gateway API functionality to route HTTP and HTTPS traffic into your Kubernetes-hosted application.

Blogs

Tutorial: Transparent Encryption with IPsec and WireGuard

In this tutorial, you'll learn how easy it is to encrypt Kubernetes traffic using Cilium Transparent Encryption with IPsec and WireGuard.

Nico Vibert
Nico Vibert
Labs

Getting started with eBPF

eBPF is the new standard to program Linux kernel capabilities in a safe and efficient manner without requiring to change kernel source code or loading kernel modules. It has enabled a new generation of high performance tooling to be developed covering networking, security, and observability use cases. The best way to learn about eBPF is to read the book “What is eBPF” by Liz Rice. And the best way to have your first experience with eBPF programming is to walk through this lab, which takes the opensnoop example out of the book and teaches you to handle an eBPF tool, watch it loading its components and even add your own tracing into the source eBPF code.

Labs

Cilium Ingress Controller

You already know that Cilium accelerates networking, and provides security and observability in Kubernetes, using the power of eBPF. Now Cilium is bringing those eBPF strengths to the world of Service Mesh. Cilium Service Mesh features eBPF-powered connectivity, traffic management, security and observability. In this lab, you will learn how you can use Cilium to deploy Ingress resources to dynamically configure the Envoy proxy provided with the Cilium agent. And all of the above without any Envoy sidecar injection into your pods!

Labs

Getting Started with Cilium

Cilium is an open source software for transparently securing the network connectivity between application services deployed using Linux container management platforms like Docker and Kubernetes. At the foundation of Cilium is a new Linux kernel technology called eBPF, which enables the dynamic insertion of powerful security visibility and control logic within Linux itself. Because eBPF runs inside the Linux kernel, Cilium security policies can be applied and updated without any changes to the application code or container configuration. In this track, we provide you a fully fledged Cilium installation on a small cluster, together with a few challenges to solve. See yourself how Cilium works, and how it can help you securing your moon-sized battlestation in a “Star Wars”-inspired challenge.

Labs

Isovalent Enterprise for Cilium: TLS Visibility

In this scenario, we are going to show how Isovalent Enterprise for Cilium can provide visibility into TLS traffic. In Security Audits, a company or team has to verify their application protects data in transit and doesn’t leak information during communication, especially when data leaves a sensitive internal network. Mechanisms like TLS ensure that data is encrypted in transit, but verifying that a TLS configuration is secure becomes a challenge for most companies. In this lab, you will learn how Isovalent Enterprise for Cilium can: identify the version of TLS being used, informing us if an obsolete and insecure version is being used report on the cipher being used and 3) export events in JSON format to SIEM.

Labs

Cilium Egress Gateway

Kubernetes changes the way we think about networking. In an ideal Kubernetes world, the network would be entirely flat and all routing and security between the applications would be controlled by the Pod network, using Network Policies. In many Enterprise environments, though, the applications hosted on Kubernetes need to communicate with workloads living outside the Kubernetes cluster, which are subject to connectivity constraints and security enforcement. Because of the nature of these networks, traditional firewalling usually relies on static IP addresses (or at least IP ranges). This can make it difficult to integrate a Kubernetes cluster, which has a varying —and at times dynamic— number of nodes into such a network. Cilium’s Egress Gateway feature changes this, by allowing you to specify which nodes should be used by a pod in order to reach the outside world.

Labs

Cilium Cluster Mesh

With the rise of Kubernetes adoption, an increasing number of clusters is deployed for various needs, and it is becoming common for companies to have clusters running on multiple cloud providers, as well as on-premise. Kubernetes Federation has for a few years brought the promise of connecting these clusters into multi-zone layers, but latency issues are more often than not preventing such architectures. Cilium Cluster Mesh allows you to connect the networks of multiple clusters in such as way that pods in each cluster can discover and access services in all other clusters of the mesh, provided all the clusters run Cilium as their CNI. This allows to effectively join multiple clusters into a large unified network, regardless of the Kubernetes distribution each of them is running. In this lab, we will see how to set up Cilium Cluster Mesh, and the benefits from such an architecture.

Labs

BGP on Cilium

Learn how to connect your Kubernetes Clusters with your on-premises network using BGP. As Kubernetes becomes more pervasive in on-premise environments, users increasingly have both traditional applications and Cloud Native applications in their environments. In order to connect them together and allow outside access, a mechanism to integrate Kubernetes and the existing network infrastructure running BGP is needed. Cilium offers native support for BGP, exposing Kubernetes to the outside and all the while simplifying users’ deployments.

Blogs

Tutorial : Azure CNI Powered by Cilium

In this tutorial, you will learn how to use Azure CNI Powered by Cilium, while presenting you with the various AKS networking options.

Nico Vibert
Nico Vibert
Labs

Isovalent Enterprise for Cilium: Network Policies

Achieving zero-trust network connectivity via Kubernetes Network Policy is complex as modern applications have many service dependencies (downstream APIs, databases, authentication services, etc.). With the “default deny” model, a missed dependency leads to a broken application. Moreover, the YAML syntax of Network Policy is often difficult for newcomers to understand. This makes writing policies and understanding their expected behavior (once deployed) challenging. Enter Isovalent Enterprise for Cilium: it provides tooling to simplify and automate the creation of Network Policy based on labels and DNS-aware data from Cilium Hubble. APIs enable integration into CI/CD workflows while visualizations help teams understand the expected behavior of a given policy. Collectively, these capabilities dramatically reduce the barrier to entry to creating Network Policies and the ongoing overhead of maintaining them as applications evolve. In this hands-on demo we will walk through some of those challenges and their solutions.

Blogs

Announcing Azure CNI Powered by Cilium

Microsoft selects Isovalent and Cilium to power Networking and Security for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS).

Thomas Graf
Thomas Graf
Blogs

Grafana + Cilium: eBPF-powered Observability

Grafana Labs announces partnership with Isovalent to bring Cilium's eBPF-powered observability for kubernetes and cloud native infrastructure.

Dan Wendlandt
Dan Wendlandt
Books

Learning eBPF

The O'Reilly book Learning eBPF by Liz Rice now available for download!

Liz Rice
Liz Rice
Blogs

Topology Aware Routing and Service Mesh across Clusters with Cluster Mesh

Cilium Cluster Mesh: how it provides a single networking, security and observability solution for applications spanning multiple clusters.

Raymond de Jong
Raymond de Jong
Blogs

Accelerate network performance with Cilium BBR

Cilium is the first cloud native networking platform to support BBR, an innovative protocol that accelerates network performance.

Nico Vibert
Nico Vibert
Blogs

Tutorial: Run and Observe IPv6 on Kubernetes with Cilium and Hubble

A tutorial on installing, configuring and observing IPv4/IPv6 Dual Stack with Cilium and Hubble

Nico Vibert
Nico Vibert
Blogs

What are the 4 Golden Signals for Monitoring Kubernetes?

What do we need to consider when we pick the four golden signals for monitoring Kubernetes environments?

Roland Wolters
Roland Wolters
Videos

Cilium Transparent Encryption with IPsec and WireGuard

[09:35] In this video, Senior Technical Marketing Engineer Nico Vibert walks through two methods to encrypt data in transit between Kubernetes Pods: Cilium Transparent Encryption with IPsec or WireGuard.

Nico Vibert
Nico Vibert
Videos

IPv6 Networking and Observability with Cilium and Hubble

[10:00] In this video, Senior Technical Marketing Engineer Nico Vibert will walk you through how to deploy a IPv4/IPv6 Dual Stack Kubernetes cluster and install Cilium and Hubble to benefit from their networking and observability capabilities.

Nico Vibert
Nico Vibert
Blogs

The Rise of Kubernetes and the End of Networking & Security as You Know It.  What’s Next?

eBPF-powered Cilium has taken the world of Kubernetes connectivity and security by storm. With their Series B funding, Isovalent will continue to remain the leading force behind the eBPF community and continue the rise of Cilium as the leading technology for Kubernetes networking, security, and service mesh.

Dan Wendlandt
Dan Wendlandt
Blogs

Addressing Bandwidth Exhaustion with Cilium Bandwidth Manager

Deep Dive on Bandwidth Management with Cilium

Nico Vibert
Nico Vibert