THE LINUX FOUNDATION PROJECTS

Announcements

Feb 12, 2026

New “eBPF In Production” Report Showcases Production Enterprise Outcomes Across Networking, Security, and Observability

TL;DR New research from the eBPF Foundation highlights how enterprises are achieving measurable cost savings, performance gains, risk reduction, and operational efficiencies with eBPF in production. The eBPF In Production: An Overview of Compelling Enterprise Outcomes Using eBPF report showcases real-world deployments from organizations including Cloudflare, Netflix, ByteDance, and Rakuten,…

Dec 18, 2025

The eBPF Foundation’s 2025 Year in Review

As 2025 comes to a close, the eBPF Foundation is proud to reflect on a year marked by deep technical progress, expanding global adoption, and growing collaboration across research, industry, and community spaces. What stood out this year wasn’t a single breakthrough feature, but a steady accumulation of work that…

Dec 11, 2025

Research Update: Managing Server Power with eBPF

This work is supported by the eBPF Foundation Academic Research Grants. 1. Project Overview With the explosive growth in cloud and ML/AI data centers, energy consumption is now a first-order design constraint. However, existing Linux power management subsystems have not evolved to handle the demands of modern data centers. They…

Dec 4, 2025

ePass: Verifier-Cooperative Runtime Enforcement for eBPF

Contributed by Ryan Huang, University of Michigan. This work is supported by the eBPF Foundation Academic Research Grants. eBPF has grown into one of the most exciting technologies in modern systems, providing a safe and expressive way to dynamically extend the Linux kernel. It now powers observability, networking, tracing, profiling,…

Dec 3, 2025

New “State of eBPF” Report Explores How Modern Infrastructure Teams Are Building on Kernel-Level Programmability

TL;DR New eBPF Foundation research shows that eBPF has become the strategic platform of choice for infrastructure teams across networking, security, observability, FinOps, and AI/LLM workloads. The eBPF for the Infrastructure Platform report explains how organizations are replacing legacy agents and kernel modules with faster, safer, more programmable eBPF-based solutions,…

Nov 20, 2025

Case Study: Alibaba Cloud Leverages eBPF for Adaptive Layer 7 Load Balancing

Download this case study in PDF format Summary Alibaba Cloud is one of the largest public cloud providers, operating a globally distributed infrastructure for millions of tenants. As their Layer 7 (L7) load balancers scaled to process over 10 million requests per second across diverse workloads, traditional Linux I/O event…