DevOps and Docker Talk: Cloud Native Interviews and Tooling Inspektor Gadget
Sep 20, 2024
Chris Kühl and Jose Blanquicet, the masterminds behind Inspektor Gadget, dive deep into their groundbreaking eBPF-focused multitool designed for Kubernetes. They discuss the tool's evolution for enhanced observability and troubleshooting, particularly in DNS and TCP monitoring. The duo also tackles the challenges of integrating with Windows nodes, and the importance of managing out-of-memory situations in containers. Listeners will learn about securing eBPF tools and the exciting roadmap ahead for Inspektor Gadget.
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Inspektor Gadget's Origin
- Chris Kühl and Jose Blanquicet joined the Inspektor Gadget team through an acquisition of their previous company, Kinvolk.
- At Kinvolk, they worked with CoreOS and BPF, leading to the creation of Inspektor Gadget.
Inspektor Gadget's Purpose
- Inspektor Gadget was created to bring the BCC (BPF Compiler Collection) project to Kubernetes.
- It aimed to solve the problem of managing numerous Linux kernel-level tools across Kubernetes nodes by packaging them into OCI images.
Simplifying Tool Management
- Managing many small tools on Linux hosts running Kubernetes is challenging.
- Inspektor Gadget simplifies this by providing a central platform for deploying and managing these tools as gadgets within the cluster.