Inspektor Gadget: Inside Kinvolk Labs: Investigating Kubernetes performance issues with BPF
One of the things we do in the Kinvolk Labs team is provide expert technical consulting for customers who are experiencing issues with their Kubernetes or Linux environments — from security audits to networking troubles to troubleshooting puzzling performance problems. A few weeks back, video advertising technology company Smartclip reached out to us at Kinvolk to investigate performance issues with their Kubernetes deployment. In this blog post, I will give you some insight into our processes and explain how we rapidly identified and solved the problem, using BPF tools from the BCC project.