This issue is for tracking work on removing the LLVM compilation toolchain from the Cilium agent runtime image and shipping prebuilt eBPF ELFs embedded in the agent binary. In short, this will provide a more natural developer experience (if (feature_foo) { ... } instead of #ifdef FEATURE_FOO), avoids high CPU consumption due to datapath (re)compilations during upgrades and reconfigs, allows for using real datapath ELFs in tests, and is a massive step in general towards shipping a distroless container image, the benefits of which won't be outlined here.

For anyone wishing to follow along, see the clang-free milestone.