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Oct 27, 2022 · Cloud Native

Boost Kubernetes Pod‑to‑Pod Performance with istio‑tcpip‑bypass and eBPF

This article explains how the Intel istio‑tcpip‑bypass plugin leverages eBPF to bypass the host TCP/IP stack for intra‑node pod communication, provides environment setup, step‑by‑step deployment commands, and shows benchmark results that demonstrate 40‑80% latency reduction and throughput improvement.