PythonBPF – Writing eBPF Programs in Pure Python

Re:PythonBPF – Writing eBPF Programs in Pure Python by grantseltzer on Monday September 15, 2025 @07:16AM (#45248353)

bcc hasn't been relevant for years.

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Re:PythonBPF – Writing eBPF Programs in Pure Python by _bobm on Monday September 15, 2025 @09:00AM (#45249162)

I have been a bit out of the loop. what is relevant these days for writing ebpf code? what about ebpf code in python?

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Re:PythonBPF – Writing eBPF Programs in Pure Python by grantseltzer on Monday September 15, 2025 @10:13AM (#45250001)

Writing it in C, compiling with clang, and loading with either C(libbpf), Go (cilium/ebpf), or Rust (Aya).

You can also write bpf in rust with Aya but i'm not sure how feature complete it is.

For very simple use cases you can just bpftrace.

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Re:PythonBPF – Writing eBPF Programs in Pure Python by nickysielicki on Monday September 15, 2025 @09:28AM (#45249470)

bpftrace is nicer to work with and can replace bcc in most cases for debugging.

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