Isovalent’s Liz Rice shows how and why Cilium bypasses the kernel using eBPF for Kubernetes and container orchestration networking, observability and security.
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Isovalent’s Liz Rice shows how and why Cilium bypasses the kernel using eBPF for Kubernetes and container orchestration networking, observability and security.
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Liz Rice is Chief Open Source Officer with eBPF specialists Isovalent, now part of Cisco, who are the original creators of the Cilium project. She was chair of the CNCF's Technical Oversight Committee 2019-2022, and Co-Chair of KubeCon + CloudNativeCon in 2018. She is also the author of Container Security, published by O'Reilly. She has a wealth of software development, team, and product management experience from working on network protocols and distributed systems, and in digital technology sectors such as VOD, music, and VoIP. When not writing code, or talking about it, Liz loves riding bikes in places with better weather than her native London, competing in virtual races on Zwift, and making music under the pseudonym Insider Nine.