Tools & Libraries

🛠️ Essential eBPF Tools & Libraries

Comprehensive collection of tools, libraries, and frameworks for eBPF development.

Core Libraries

libbpf

1. libbpf - Official eBPF library
2. libbpf-rs - Rust bindings
3. libbpf-go - Go bindings

BCC (BPF Compiler Collection)

1. BCC - Tools and Python bindings
2. BCC Tools - Pre-built tools
3. BCC Python API - Python reference

Development Tools

bpftool

1. bpftool - Official BPF tool
2. bpftool Documentation - Manual pages
3. bpftool Examples - Usage examples

Compiler Tools

1. clang - eBPF compiler
2. llvm - Compiler infrastructure
3. BTF Generator - BTF tools

Monitoring Tools

Observability Tools

1. bpftrace - High-level tracing language
2. kubectl-trace - Kubernetes tracing
3. Falco - Security monitoring with eBPF

Performance Tools

1. perf - Linux performance tools
2. FlameGraph - Performance visualization
3. BCC Tools - Performance analysis

Networking Tools

XDP Tools

1. XDP Tools - XDP utilities
2. Cilium - eBPF-based networking
3. Katran - Facebook's load balancer

Network Monitoring

1. Pixie - Kubernetes observability
2. Cilium Hubble - Network observability
3. Flowmill - Network flow monitoring

Security Tools

Security Frameworks

1. Falco - Runtime security
2. Tetragon - Security observability
3. Tracee - Runtime security

Language Bindings

Python

1. BCC Python - BCC Python bindings
2. redbpf - Rust eBPF for Python

Go

1. cilium/ebpf - Pure Go eBPF library
2. libbpf-go - Go libbpf bindings

Rust

1. libbpf-rs - Rust libbpf bindings
2. redbpf - Rust eBPF toolkit

Testing & Debugging

Testing Tools

1. bpf-test - Test framework
2. vmtest - VM-based testing

Debugging Tools

1. bpftool - Program inspection
2. verifier logs - Verifier debugging

Best Practices

Tool Selection

1. libbpf: For production, CO-RE support
2. BCC: For rapid prototyping, Python
3. bpftrace: For ad-hoc tracing
4. bpftool: For program management

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