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Tcpdump for Everyone
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Tcpdump for Everyone – Debugging Network Issues With Pcap-Release
Network issues can be hard to track down. This is especially true on distributed systems like Cloud Foundry, where apps are spread across multiple hosts and networks. Investigating such problems usually requires operator-level access to the platform, which makes it hard to scale and expensive. In this talk, we present “pcap-release”, a solution that allows app developers to capture ingress and egress traffic of their apps across all app instances with an easy-to-use CLI. The tool also allows capturing network traffic from BOSH deployments for operators. The resulting pcap files can then be opened in popular tools like Wireshark for further analysis.
The goal of this talk is to gain community awareness and collect valuable feedback. We feel that the pcap-release project can provide lots of value to Cloud Foundry, because it makes it very easy for both operators and developers to capture network traffic from multiple hosts without any overhead.
About the Speakers
Dominik Froehlich
Senior Developer, SAP SE
Dominik graduated from HS Furtwangen University in 2008 and started his career at IBM in 2008 as a software tester. Joined Cloud Foundry (Bluemix) at IBM in 2014. Kickstarted a first FaaS prototype called "OpenWhisk" which later became adopted as an Apache project: https://openwhisk.apache.org/ Joined SAP in 2017 as a developer, primary focus on IaaS topics. Mainly automating infrastructure deployments using Terraform on all major cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP, Ali Cloud). Switched focus to CF routing and networking in 2019 as a Senior Developer. Joined CF App Runtime WG in 2021 as an approver for the cf-networking repositories. Maintainer of HAproxy BOSH release since 2020.
Maximilian Moehl
Developer, SAP SE
Graduated with a Bachelors degree in International Business Administration and Information Technology from Ludwigshafen University of Business and Society in the year 2021. Joined SAP in 2021 as a Developer. Since then, Maximilian has been maintaining the routing stack of Cloud Foundry environments deployed as part of the SAP Business Technology Platform.
