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From Zero to eBPF BNG in 15 Minutes: The GitOps Deployment Repo

Last week I open-sourced the eBPF BNG itself. The response was great, but the most common question was: “How do I actually run this thing?” Fair question. The BNG repo has a Dockerfile and some example configs, but spinning up a distributed system with multiple components, observability, and realistic test traffic isn’t trivial. That’s the hard part of infrastructure - not writing the code, but figuring out how to deploy it, test it, and debug it when things break.

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Saturday, January 24, 2026 | 9 minutes Read
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Killing the ISP Appliance: An eBPF/XDP Approach to Distributed BNG

I used to work for an ISP startup that was building next-generation infrastructure. The company didn’t make it, but the problems we were trying to solve stuck with me. So I spent a few weeks building what we never got to: an open-source, eBPF-accelerated BNG that runs directly on OLT hardware. This post explains the architecture and why I think it’s the future of ISP edge infrastructure. The Problem: Centralised BNG is a Bottleneck Traditional ISP architecture looks like this:

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Friday, January 16, 2026 | 6 minutes Read
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