The Love Story between Cilium & Grafana

Let's kick 2023 meetups off with a fun and full of love date: Join us for Valentine's Day Software Circus Edition IN PERSON at our Amsterdam location. Space is limited so if you can't make it in the end, please edit your answer. :)

We will also have a live stream of the talk here in this link --> https://meet.google.com/yxx-dgvj-ibm

AGENDA

• 18:00 - Registration with Refreshments
• 18:30 - Welcome by Sevi, Senior Cloud Native Engineer @ Container Solutions
• 18:45 - Cilium & Grafana - A match made in heaven! with Raymond de Jong, Isovalent Field CTO for EMEA
• 19:30 - Q&A
• 20:30 - 21:00 - Mingles & Drinks

THE TALK
Cilium & Grafana - A match made in heaven! 💞

One of the most important things when running applications in an environment like Kubernetes is to have good observability and deep insight into their performance and behaviour. However, for many applications it can be challenging to update them to provide the observability you need. Cilium is open source software for providing, securing and observing network connectivity between container workloads without needing code changes. It leverages Kernel technology eBPF to provide the data, which can then be fed to monitoring and observability tools.
Using a demo application we will show how we can get performance, error rates and other metrics. You’ll learn how to monitor service-to-service connectivity, and collect tracing data and golden metrics, using a mixture of common open source tools including Prometheus, Grafana, and OpenTelemetry alongside Cilium and eBPF.

THE SPEAKER

• Raymond de Jong is Field CTO for EMEA at Isovalent, the originators of the Cilium project, providing networking, observability, and security for cloud-native applications using eBPF. In this role, he is supporting and enabling customers and partners to be successful with Cilium in their mission-critical environments. Leveraging almost a decade of experience in Software Defined Networking he is passionate about learning customer use-cases and designing solutions to meet their requirements. When not working, Raymond enjoys playing tennis, riding bikes, gaming, and music playing the guitar or piano.

We look forward seeing you!