This practical book is ideal for developers, system administrators, operators, and students who are curious about eBPF and want to know how it works.

Author Liz Rice, chief open source officer with cloud native networking and security specialists Isovalent, also provides a foundation for those who want to explore writing eBPF programs themselves. With this book, you will:

Learn why eBPF has become so important in the past couple of years

Write basic eBPF code, and manipulate eBPF programs and attach them to events

Explore how eBPF components interact with Linux to dynamically change the operating system's behavior

Learn how tools based on eBPF can instrument applications without changes to the apps or their configuration

Discover how this technology enables new tools for observability, security, and networking