gobpf VS ebpf

Compare gobpf vs ebpf and see what are their differences.

gobpf

Go bindings for creating BPF programs. (by iovisor)

ebpf

ebpf-go is a pure-Go library to read, modify and load eBPF programs and attach them to various hooks in the Linux kernel. (by cilium)
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gobpf ebpf
2 9
2,163 6,777
0.6% 2.4%
0.0 9.5
over 1 year ago 10 days ago
C Go
Apache License 2.0 MIT License
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gobpf

Posts with mentions or reviews of gobpf. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-10.
  • eBPF Documentary
    7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 10 Mar 2024
    This [1] makes me think gobpf uses C bindings to bcc, so golang does not compile to eBPF, bcc does.

    [1] - https://github.com/iovisor/gobpf/tree/master/bcc

  • Simple XDP Firwall with Golang
    5 projects | dev.to | 1 Dec 2022
    gobpf by iovisor which provides go bindings for the bcc framework as well as low-level routines to load and use eBPF programs from .elf files.

ebpf

Posts with mentions or reviews of ebpf. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-10.
  • eBPF Documentary
    7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 10 Mar 2024
    Oh, no I don't mean that arbitrary Go compiles to eBPF. Apologies if I gave that impression. I meant that there are libraries that let you compose eBPF programs in other languages. But you're still putting together an eBPF program, just like you can assemble JSON with Go but you can't compile an arbitrary Go program to JSON.

    Cilium's eBPF library is the Go one I had in mind: https://github.com/cilium/ebpf

    Here's an example from that repo: https://github.com/cilium/ebpf/tree/main/examples/ringbuffer

  • eBPF Verification Is Untenable
    7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 22 Jun 2023
  • Memory Tracing
    3 projects | /r/eBPF | 1 Feb 2023
    Hey there! Of course. There are a few good examples here and here. Yes, they're specific tools (which I, by the way, do recommend), but you can have a look at the BPF code here as well.
  • Simple XDP Firwall with Golang
    5 projects | dev.to | 1 Dec 2022
    ebpf-go by Cilium which is a pure-Go library to read, modify and load eBPF programs and attach them to various hooks in the Linux kernel.
  • Has anyone had any luck with Ebpf libraries?
    2 projects | /r/golang | 23 Aug 2022
    cilium is probably the best one that has the widest use and is supported by cloudflare.
  • eBPF learning material(updating)
    4 projects | dev.to | 13 Jun 2022
    libbpfgo ebpf
  • Ship your firewall rules with your application using eBPF
    1 project | /r/cspaper | 6 Feb 2022
    Go library that provides utilities for loading, compiling, and debugging eBPF programs [https://github.com/cilium/ebpf]
  • lsp-mode can't find github packages
    1 project | /r/emacs | 16 Dec 2021
    The error I get is "could not import github.com/cilium/ebpf (no package for import github.com/cilium/ebpf". I have the variable lsp-go-library-directories-include-go-modules set to t and the directory $GOPATH/pkg/mod/github.com/cilium/[email protected] exists and has the correct code in it. What am I missing to make LSP pick up these libraries?
  • Running a function everytime an exported function is called
    1 project | /r/golang | 20 Nov 2021
    If you want to run something like monitoring or diagnostic code, maybe you could achieve something like this with eBPF (see https://github.com/cilium/ebpf).

What are some alternatives?

When comparing gobpf and ebpf you can also consider the following projects:

goebpf - Library to work with eBPF programs from Go

libbpfgo - eBPF library for Go. Powered by libbpf.

xdp-firewall-tutorial - Drop packets with XDP & Golang tutorial repo

go-flutter - Flutter on Windows, MacOS and Linux - based on Flutter Embedding, Go and GLFW.

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