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, Filip Nikolic, and James Laverack, all from Isovalent (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
Laverack, James: - James Laverack is a software engineer and technical speaker with over a decade of industry experience specializing in cloud native software, distributed systems, and networking. Currently James is a Principal Customer Success Architect, Isovalent at Cisco and he has previously worked as a Kubernetes consultant and software engineer across a range of industries.
Nikolic, Filip: - Filip Nikolic is a Solutions Architect at Isovalent, the creators of eBPF and Cilium.
With years of hands-on experience across a variety of Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) projects, Filip is not only a seasoned engineer but also a passionate advocate for open-source innovation.
Vibert, Nico: - Nico Vibert is a Senior Staff Technical Marketing Engineer at Isovalent--the company behind the open-source cloud native solution Cilium. Nico is passionate about "education without the jargon" and presenting complex topics--such as networking--in simple terms. He's previously co-authored two books: VMware Cloud on AWS: NSX Networking and Security, published via VMware Press/Pearson and Kubernetes Networking and Cilium: An Instruction Manual for the Network Engineer, an eBook published on Isovalent.com. Both of these books have been downloaded by thousands of engineers worldwide. Nico has taught Cilium to thousands of engineers through the creation of videos (+200K views), tutorials (+200K views) and hands-on labs (+50K lab runs). Prior to Isovalent, Nico worked in many different roles--operations and support, design and architecture, technical pre-sales--at companies such as HashiCorp, VMware and Cisco. Nico regularly speaks at events, whether on a large scale such as VMworld, Cisco Live or at smaller forums such as VMware and AWS User Groups or virtual events such as HashiCorp HashiTalks. Outside of Isovalent, Nico's passionate about intentional diversity & inclusion initiatives and is Chief DEI Officer at the Open Technology organization OpenUK.
