Source: thenewstack.io
eBPF Finds a Home with a New FoundationCategory: Microsoft
Facebook, Google, Isovalent, Microsoft and Netflix have joined together to create the eBPF Foundation under the umbrella of the Linux Foundation, giving the eBPF project a vendor-neutral home for its future endeavors. The Extended Berkeley Packet Filter (eBPF) was originally created in 2014, as a follow-on to the original Berkeley Packet Filter created in 1992.
eBPF is a fully separate project that provides backward compatibility to BPF, and has been referred to as “Linux’s newest superpower.”
Now, instead of having to convince the entire Linux kernel community that your change is important for everybody, you can load an eBPF program, very similar to how a web developer no longer has to convince every single that browser vendor to bring a new feature, but instead can write JavaScript code.”
Recently, eBPF was ported to Windows, where eBPF for Windows will bring this functionality to Windows 10 and Windows Server 2016, and Graf says that a port to BSD is also in the works.
eBPF is a fully separate project that provides backward compatibility to BPF, and has been referred to as “Linux’s newest superpower.”
Now, instead of having to convince the entire Linux kernel community that your change is important for everybody, you can load an eBPF program, very similar to how a web developer no longer has to convince every single that browser vendor to bring a new feature, but instead can write JavaScript code.”
Recently, eBPF was ported to Windows, where eBPF for Windows will bring this functionality to Windows 10 and Windows Server 2016, and Graf says that a port to BSD is also in the works.
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