iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Dan @thebsdbox.co.uk · 06/05/2026

So initially I started writing a service mesh (for fun), then everyone started talking about AI workloads. So here we are, a transparent gateway that can be applied to running workloads (no restart) that allows control between agents/workloads and an LLM. kube-gateway.io

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Dan @thebsdbox.co.uk · 31/01/2026

heh, eBPF is controlling your AI 🐝

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Dan @thebsdbox.co.uk · 08/01/2026

Existing AI workloads? A few annotations and I can now transparently change their behaviour, swap out models in their API calls and more. (Thanks to #eBPF)

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Dan @thebsdbox.co.uk · 08/01/2026

Re-found the virtual machine manager project for Kubernetes from last year, this example has BeOS inside a kubernetes cluster ssh-ing out to the control plane to manage itself 😂. No CNI needed either thanks to eBPF.

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Dan @thebsdbox.co.uk · 15/12/2025

Regardless of what the AI client is (GO, Python etc...) we can now ensure we jump in to the "existing" data path and manipulate any of the data in either direction 😀

Two pods using different SDKs and languages (GO/Pyton) to access AI backends, both being intercepted and sent to the kube-gateway proxy transparently.

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Dan @thebsdbox.co.uk · 11/12/2025

Using eBPF 🐝 and some proxy magic 🪄 to change the model on the fly transparently to the AI workload. We can see the first responses from llama and subsequent ones from gemma (more emojis).

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Dan @thebsdbox.co.uk · 04/12/2025

Two pods with their traffic being proxied (thx eBPF 🐝) through a gateway, one using kTLS and the other user-land TLS. 🔐

Transparent proxy with eBPF and kTLS for encryption.

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Dan @thebsdbox.co.uk · 12/11/2025

Getting the Heptio band back together 😀

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Dan @thebsdbox.co.uk · 10/11/2025

Excellent afternoon talking about Kubernetes networking and Virtualisation on Kubernetes.

Stood on stage about to start talking about network design

Talking about technical debt when migrating workloads.

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Dan @thebsdbox.co.uk · 31/10/2025

Managed 25 minutes in this thing before I was starting to overheat 🥵

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Dan @thebsdbox.co.uk · 27/10/2025

Capturing keystrokes through eBPF ⌨️

Keystrokes in one window being captured in another window

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Dan @thebsdbox.co.uk · 09/10/2025

Pretty close to the episode of Brookyln nine nine where they go undercover in the library.

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Dan @thebsdbox.co.uk · 19/09/2025

Been wanting to play with in kernel (kTLS) for a while, my mTLS proxy for encrypted pods now moves all encryption into the kernel 🤩

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Dan @thebsdbox.co.uk · 07/09/2025

Came back for 13 local legends in the Peak District this weekend.

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Dan @thebsdbox.co.uk · 06/09/2025

Unacceptable… immediately had to get on my bike to rectify the situation.

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Dan @thebsdbox.co.uk · 16/08/2025

I have my ducks in a row.

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Dan @thebsdbox.co.uk · 15/08/2025

Sheffield was looking pretty epic in the sun yesterday evening.

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Dan @thebsdbox.co.uk · 31/07/2025

Watching a documentary and I’m pretty sure that’s the infinity gauntlet. 😬

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Dan @thebsdbox.co.uk · 27/07/2025

About to cause some havoc!

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Dan @thebsdbox.co.uk · 08/07/2025

Cancel all my calls.

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Dan @thebsdbox.co.uk · 02/07/2025

Finally managed to get IPv6 egress re-implemented using the go nftables pkg (uses syscalls) in kube-vip. 🐙

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Dan @thebsdbox.co.uk · 25/06/2025

There's a lot of kube-vip.io deployments out there 🤩

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Dan @thebsdbox.co.uk · 24/06/2025

Getting very close (github.com/kube-vip/kub...) Kube-vip.io can now egress pods through a service IP providing stable addresses, without the need for a bunch of external tools in the pod 🥹

kube-vip.io doing egress without the need for various external tooling.

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Dan @thebsdbox.co.uk · 19/06/2025

Kids entertainment has changed a lot since I was a child. 🦖

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Dan @thebsdbox.co.uk · 31/05/2025

Lovely morning to the Emley moor mast and back! One road had 23.4% gradient on it, which was fun.

Sat on my bike in front of Emley Moor mast.

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Dan @thebsdbox.co.uk · 31/05/2025

The early morning was pretty grim, but I did find a cafe that had 🐝s in it. Including some actual queen bees!

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Dan @thebsdbox.co.uk · 21/05/2025

Still thinking about last night 🌮

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Dan @thebsdbox.co.uk · 08/05/2025

Excited for the rebound.cc gravel ride in a few weeks time, going to ride up to the Emley moor mast which is the tallest tower in the UK. (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emley_M...) 🚵🏼‍♂️

Overview of the route, starting from Sheffield towards Huddersfield and then back home again.

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Dan @thebsdbox.co.uk · 04/05/2025

With @kubernetes.io v1.33 I can easily apply a ephemeral container that intercepts traffic (with eBPF 🐝) and transparently encrypts it between pods. Doesn't show up as a container, so does that mean it isn't a sidecar 🤔

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Dan @thebsdbox.co.uk · 01/05/2025

Ready to go again! 🪖