Cilium in Practice: Building Data Sandboxes at Bloomberg - Anne Zepecki & Sritej Attaluri, Bloomberg

Cilium in Practice: Building Data Sandboxes at Bloomberg - Anne Zepecki & Sritej Attaluri, Bloomberg LP

Quant developers and data scientists utilize various data sources in their research workflows. Bloomberg’s quant analytics platform, BQuant Enterprise, is built with Kubernetes, integrates with major public clouds, and allows researchers to seamlessly mix Bloomberg’s comprehensive data sets alongside their own data as they test and deploy new investment strategies. Data vendors typically sell data at different prices tied to different usage terms and limitations. In providing experimentation environments where researchers can build data pipelines without full data license fees, Bloomberg leverages Cilium to construct data sandboxes that restrict users from distributing data outside the sandbox. In this talk, we’ll discuss how in-cluster L7 Cilium policies enable us to create isolated research environments. We hope you will walk away from this talk with an understanding of a unique application of Cilium for an enterprise product and how Cilium could be a valuable solution for you, too!