The IT industry has thrived by creating a myriad of power hungry devices in order to achieve the aims of their users. Data centres around the globe are filled from floor to ceiling with these devices all manipulating data and the flow of network traffic. Over the last decade we've seen various efficiency improvements by compressing workloads on these machines through virtualisation and containerisation.

Now we are starting to see the emergence of eBPF programs that are highly efficient also starting to reduce the need on additional devices within the data centre. As eBPF becomes more commonplace more and more of the processing will be offloaded to eBPF programs shrinking the footprint within the Datacentre.

This talk will provide a quick overview into eBPF and then delve into areas where eBPF programs have already started to replace power hungry devices and finally where we hope to see eBPF in the future to improve sustainability in the cloud native space.