Tawon CVF (Containerized Visibility Fabric)- Container Image

Description

Tawon CVF is a cloud-native, Containerized Visibility Fabric (CVF) for collecting/gathering network-related information in distributed computing environments. Tawon was designed, from concept, to handle the challenges of gaining deep visibility into virtualized environments where topology, interfaces, processes, and data flows are hidden and increasingly ephemeral. Observability, as a framework, is no longer simply about logs, metrics, and traces but must be extended to include streaming, real-time, network event metadata acquired from transient, virtual resources as they spin up and turn down. Leveraging a lightweight microservices framework and eBPF technology, Tawon can be deployed quickly, at-scale, to provide federated, dynamic resource characterization.

Cloud-native network probes, to be relevant, must have composable functionality, disaggregated visibility, and be event-driven to continuously survey, discover and publish data/metadata containing:

• raw or filtered protocol-specific traffic
• extracted and decoded protocol-specific informational elements
• advanced, correlated, flow statistics and counters
• remotely and programmatically captured and published packet traffic
• link, interface, processes, containers, and topology descriptors
• encrypted session primitives
• plaintext (TLS) derivatives
• payload content

Tawon is a pub-sub type architecture using cloud-native container technology and instrumentation along with a common message queue. The message queue is employed bidirectionally for issuing tasks to the Tawon-agent(s) as well as for publishing metadata that are produced by the Tawon-agent(s).