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Today, with the release of v0.31.0, we announce the general availability of image-based Gadgets, the core building block of Inspektor Gadget’s newly defined data collection and systems inspection framework; enabling an ecosystem of observability tooling to be built with Inspektor Gadget.

Image-based Gadgets are OCI-images containing eBPF programs with some additional artifacts we’ll discuss below. Image-based Gadgets have been tucked behind an experimental flag for the past year as the team built out the complementary features that have expanded the project from a tool for interactive debugging sessions to a comprehensive framework for observability.

In this post, we provide some background, a high-level overview of Inspektor Gadget’s new functionality, project goals, core-concepts, the current state of the project and ongoing work to be introduced in subsequent releases. A series of posts will follow that will go into detail about the various aspects of the project discussed here.