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The eBPF Foundation Reflects on its Most Productive Year to Date

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Security, Academic Research, and Upstream Development Key Highlights The eBPF Foundation has spent 2024 securing, promoting, and advancing the eBPF ecosystem in many key areas, this blog highlights and celebrates…

Threat Model and Independent Verifier Audit Examine the Security of eBPF

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Two research reports sponsored by the eBPF Foundation audit the security of eBPF and provide deployment guidance, along with inherent controls and recommendations SALT LAKE CITY – Cilium + eBPF…

eBPF Foundation Announces $250,000 in Grant Awards for Five eBPF Academic Research Projects

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Projects will advance eBPF’s open source technology by improving scalability, static analysis, verifier, virtual memory, and more  SAN FRANCISCO – August 29, 2024 – The eBPF Foundation, which focuses on…

eBPF Foundation Member Spotlight: Isovalent

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This is the first in a new series of spotlights on eBPF Foundation members. We kick off the series with a discussion with Liz Rice, Chief Open Source Officer at…

Linux Storage, Filesystems, MM and BPF Summit Recap and Video: eBPF Foundation: Ongoing Work and ‘What Can the Foundation Do for You?’

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At the recent Linux Storage, Filesystems, MM, and BPF Summit, Joe Stringer from Isovalent, also a member of the eBPF Steering Committee, shared updates and future plans for the eBPF…

Linux Storage, Filesystems, MM and BPF Summit Recap and Video: Evolution of Stack Trace Captures with BPF

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The Linux Storage, Filesystems, MM and BPF Summit recently hosted a session by Andrii Nakryiko, a distinguished engineer at Meta and a member of the eBPF Steering Committee, titled "Evolution…

Linux Storage, Filesystems, MM and BPF Summit Recap and Video: BPF Conformance – Handling Undefined Opcodes

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The recent Linux Storage, Filesystems, MM, and BPF Summit featured a session titled "BPF conformance - handling undefined opcodes," presented by Alan Jowett from Microsoft (video follows below). As a…

Linux Storage, Filesystems, MM and BPF Summit Recap and Video: Next Steps for BPF LSM

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At the recent Linux Storage, Filesystems, MM and BPF Summit, KP Singh of Google, who is also a member of the eBPF Steering Committee, delivered a session titled "Next Steps…

LSFMM+BPF Summit Recap and Video: Modernizing BPF for the Next Decade

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In a recent session at the Linux Storage, Filesystems, MM, and BPF Summit, Alexei Starovoitov of Meta, and a member of the eBPF Steering Committee, shared his vision for the…

LSFMM+BPF Summit Recap and Video: Understanding BPF Performance: Comparing eBPF for Windows vs. Linux BPF

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At the recent Linux Storage, Filesystems, MM, and BPF Summit, Alan Jowett from Microsoft, who also serves on the eBPF Steering Committee, presented an insightful session titled "BPF performance: comparison…

LSFMM+BPF Summit Recap and Video: LLVM Improvements for Better Verification

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At the recent Linux Storage, Filesystems, MM, and BPF Summit, Alan Jowett from Microsoft, and a member of the eBPF Steering Committee, presented a discussion on improving LLVM for better…

LSFMM+BPF Summit Recap and Video: Revamping Global Socket Iterator, Netkit and Next Steps

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At the recent Linux Storage, Filesystem, MM, and BPF Summit, Daniel Borkmann from Isovalent, who also serves on the eBPF Steering Committee, presented an insightful session titled "Revamping Global Socket…

Recap of the First eBPF Day India

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On 16 March, the eBPF Foundation and Centre for Networked Intelligence organized the first eBPF Day, India at the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore, with support from Cisco CSR.…

TFIR.io: New State of eBPF Report highlights evolution of eBPF technology

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eBPF Foundation recently released its first State of eBPF report which aims to inform technology decision-makers about the technology and some of its use cases. Bill Mulligan, Marketing Committee at…

DevOpsDigest: The State of eBPF: Exploring eBPF Evolution, Use Cases, Challenges and Future

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eBPF is a technology that allows users to run custom programs inside the Linux kernel, which changes the behavior of the kernel and makes execution up to 10x faster(link is external) and…

New State of eBPF Report Examines eBPF’s Impact on Software Application Development

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Qualitative study from the eBPF Foundation and Linux Foundation Research covers the evolution of eBPF, what’s being built with it today, challenges, and where it is heading SAN FRANCISCO –…

BPF Steering Committee Year in Review

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Prepared by Joe Stringer & Bill Mulligan on behalf of the BSC This document is intended to help readers to understand the technical value provided to the eBPF community by…

Watch the eBPF Documentary Now!

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The eBPF documentary premiered today at KubeCon North America. Sponsored by the eBPF Foundation, Intel, and Isovalent, "Unlocking the Kernel" explores the history of eBPF, including why and how it…

View the eBPF Documentary Trailer

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The eBPF Foundation, along with Intel and Isovalent, are sponsors of the upcoming eBPF documentary, Unlocking the Kernel. Produced by Speakeasy Films, this documentary explores the history of eBPF, including…

Mentorship Program

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eBPF Foundation Mentorship Program The eBPF Foundation is funding mentoring programs run on the LFX Mentorship platform. The eBPF Foundation is a great place to spend time learning, coding, documenting,…

eBPF Updates #5: CNCF Proposals, Kinvolk Acquired, eCHO, the Cost of Tail Calls, Systemd Features, Reverse Debugging, Static Linking

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Spring is back in the Northern Hemisphere, and with it all kinds of features are blooming for eBPF. Kernel 5.12 is out, and version 5.13 is on track to bring…

eBPF Updates #4: In-Memory Loads Detection, Debugging QUIC, Local CI Runs, MTU Checks, but No Pancakes

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In several parts of the globe, February is traditionally about love, and pancakes. eBPF sure received a lot of love over the last weeks! Blogging, conferencing, and kernel development have…

eBPF Updates #3: Atomics Operations, Socket Options Retrieval, Syscall Tracing Benchmarks, eBPF in the Supply Chain

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With the festive season, it would seem that eBPF blogging has cooled down a little, and we have fewer items to report this time. But eBPF is getting traction everywhere,…

eBPF Updates #2: eBPF with Zig, libbpf-bootstrap, Rust Linker, BTF in Kernel Modules, Cgroup-Based Memory Accounting

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Foreword Welcome to the second issue of the eBPF Updates! This time we have interesting resources about how to write eBPF programs with Zig, or with Rust, or on how to…

eBPF Updates #1: eBPF Summit Coverage, libbpf 0.2, BTF Developments, Bulk API for XDP, Local Task Storage for eBPF LSM

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Foreword Curious people, eBPF aficionados, kernel hackers, welcome! The eBPF Updates aim to be a regular publication providing news on the latest resources and developments in the eBPF world. This…