Liz Rice Chief Open Source Officer at Isovalent
Liz Rice is Chief Open Source Officer with eBPF specialists Isovalent, creators of the Cilium cloud native networking, security and observability project. She was Chair of the CNCF’s Technical Oversight Committee 2019-2022, and Co-Chair of KubeCon + CloudNativeCon in 2018. She is also the author of Container Security, published by O'Reilly.
She has a wealth of software development, team, and product management experience from working on network protocols and distributed systems, and in digital technology sectors such as VOD, music, and VoIP. When not writing code, or talking about it, Liz loves riding bikes in places with better weather than her native London, and competing in virtual races on Zwift.
Q|Most of our readers might not understand the kernel. Can you explain what the kernel does?
Operating systems have two parts: userspace and the kernel. Userspace has lower privileges; kernel space is a fully privileged environment. The kernel is the only part that can directly access memory, files, network, or any other hardware component. Userspace applications
