Virtual Stack is a podcast about the glorious world of Enterprise IT. On this show, we discuss networking, virtualisation, cloud and all things software-defined.
eBPF is one of the most interesting emerging technologies in the area of observability, networking and security. On the 44th episode of the Virtual Stack Podcast, Moustafa Harbi (Sr. Technical Account Manager at Red Hat) and I have a chat about this technology and its use cases in today's enterprise IT industry.
Show Notes:
00:00 - Intros
01:30 - What's eBPF in a nutshell?
06:40 - What can eBPF offer us?
12:30 - In what language or on what framework do we write eBPF code?
14:20 - What are the use cases of eBPF in an enterprise setting?
21:30 - Do eBPF programs create any load on system CPU or memory?
23:00 - How do we use eBPF on an enterprise-wide scale?
24:45 - What's Cilium and what's its relationship with eBPF?
30:30 - What do you think about the future of eBPF and Cilium? Can they change the way we do networking?
35:00 - How can we start learning about eBPF?
39:00 - Closing notes
Links:
eBPF project (https://ebpf.io/)
Cilium project (https://cilium.io/)
BCC (BPF Compiler Collection) GitHub page
27 Apr 2022
43 - Virtual Stack - Network Automation
On the 43rd episode of the Virtual Stack Podcast, I'm joined by Sean Cavanaugh (Senior Principal Technical Marketing Manager - Ansible Automation Platform, at Red Hat) and we discuss all things network automation. If you'd like to hear about main use cases, common obstacles and the solution you need (spoiler alert: Ansible :)), this episode is for you.
Show notes:
01:00 - Intros
07:30 - Some of the biggest changes in networking in the last few years
18:30 - Main use cases for network automation
31:00 - Key benefits of Ansible
36:00 - Common obstacles on the journey to automation
41:30 - Closing notes
Links:
Red Hat Ansible Automation YouTube Channel (https://www.youtube.com/c/ansibleautomation)
Ansible Automation Platform Self-Paced Labs
Sean's Twitter (https://twitter.com/IPvSean)
25 Mar 2022
42 - Virtual Stack - Company as Code
On the 42th episode of Virtual Stack Podcast, I'm joined by Gil Hoffer (co-founder & CTO at Salto) and we discuss about their solution of automating the configuration of SaaS applications, which they describe as company-as-code.
Can we manage and operate our business applications the same way as our CI/CD pipelines and IT infrastructure? Answers are on this episode.
Show notes:
Intros: 00:00
What's Salto? 01:30
What can be automated by Salto on some typical applications? 06:00
How do you make sure Salto works with many SaaS applications and keep up with their changes? 14:00
What made you design an automation language instead of using something like YAML or XML? 17:15
What types of companies benefit from the company-as-code approach? 19:55
Who are the main buyers? What business benefits do they get? 22:10
What are the main obstacles that organisations encounter when adopting company-as-code? 26:10
How can customers test the solution? 32:30
Closing notes: 34:30
Links:
Salto: Company-as-Code - Blog article on Salto.io
Salto on GitHub (https://github.com/orgs/salto-io/repositories)
Gil on Twitter (https://twitter.com/gilhoffer)
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