Pixie is now open source

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Post by coloneltcb » Tue, May 04, 2021, 1:02 PM UTC

Pixie is now open source
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Re: Pixie is now open source

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Post by zasgar » Tue, May 04, 2021, 4:52 PM UTC

Co-founder/CEO of Pixie here.

Sharing our thoughts on why we are open sourcing Pixie: https://blog.px.dev/open-source-release/.

Too much of open source today is just vendors using it to promote paid services, without a community approach. Open-source should be vendor neutral and accessible to all.

We used Apache 2.0 as our license and are committed to keep it that way. As part of this we are working on contributing the project to CNCF (Cloud native compute foundation, a part of the linux foundation) to guarantee its vendor neutrality.

Re: Pixie is now open source

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Post by bushbaba » Tue, May 04, 2021, 4:54 PM UTC

eBPF is really a game changer, with pixie making this technology easily accessible. When I saw Pixie able to inspect all the SQL Queries, Redis Traffic, and Service to Service communications...without any custom instrumentation. I was floored.

Re: Pixie is now open source

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Post by thejonanshow » Tue, May 04, 2021, 5:17 PM UTC

Huge fan of eBPF but admittedly less informed than I could be; could someone point out some instances where this wouldn't be able to replace agent instrumentation eventually?

I understand the bits of the kernel we're able to hook this way are still being built out, but 5yrs down the road what would we still need other instrumentation to capture?

Re: Pixie is now open source

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Post by manako » Tue, May 04, 2021, 7:15 PM UTC

zasgar wrote: post #2

Co-founder/CEO of Pixie here. Sharing our thoughts on why we are open sourcing Pixie: https://blog.px.dev/open-source-release/ . Too much of open source today is just vendors using it to promote paid services, without a community approach. Open-source should be vendor neutral and accessible to all. We used Apache 2.0 as our license and are committed to keep it that way. As part of this we are working on contributing…

Aren't you worried about AWS forking this?

Re: Pixie is now open source

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Post by mdaniel » Thu, May 06, 2021, 12:08 AM UTC

manako wrote: post #5

zasgar wrote: post #2

Co-founder/CEO of Pixie here. Sharing our thoughts on why we are open sourcing Pixie: https://blog.px.dev/open-source-release/ . Too much of open source today is just vendors using it to promote paid services, without a community approach. Open-source should be vendor neutral and accessible to all. We used Apache 2.0 as our license and are committed to keep it that way. As part of this we are working on contributing…

Aren't you worried about AWS forking this?

A sibling story:

AWS Partners with New Relic to Contribute to Pixie OSS - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27038824