Fast and the Furious - CI/CD Pipeline for eBPF Programs at Meta Scale

Learn how Meta has developed and refined a specialized CI/CD pipeline for managing over 150 eBPF programs running at massive scale in this conference talk from KubeCon + CloudNativeCon. Discover the unique challenges faced when adapting traditional microservice CI/CD pipelines for eBPF programs that operate in kernel space, including issues related to network observability, load balancing, network stack specialization, and security features. Explore the specific nuances of the eBPF ecosystem that required custom solutions, understand lessons learned from production outages over five years of development, and gain insights into ongoing enhancements for eBPF-centric deployment pipelines. Examine how Meta manages weekly updates to critical infrastructure components while maintaining system reliability and preventing outages in a high-velocity development environment.