Pixie is now open source

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.

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?

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.