Cilium is an open source, cloud native solution for providing, securing, and observing network connectivity between workloads, fueled by the revolutionary Kernel technology eBPF

Cilium is an open source project to provide networking, security, and observability for cloud native environments such as Kubernetes clusters and other container orchestration platforms.

Cilium integrates seamlessly with Kubernetes, providing networking and security through a CNI plugin. Cilium has been tested, validated, and optimized across multiple clouds and Kubernetes distributions.

This one-day training in English or German provides a practical and clear introduction to Cilium, an eBPF-based networking, observability and security stack for cloud and on-premise infrastructure. Learn more

Cilium IPv6 Networking and Observability. Learn how simple IPv6 can be installed and operated with Cilium and Hubble. With Kubernetes’ IPv6 support improving in recent releases and Dual Stack Generally Available in Kubernetes 1.23, it’s time to learn about IPv6 on Kubernetes.

Cilium is an open source software for transparently securing the network connectivity between application services deployed using Linux container management platforms like Docker and Kubernetes. At the foundation of Cilium is a new Linux kernel technology called eBPF, which enables the dynamic insertion of powerful security visibility and ...

Mar 14, 2025 · Introduction to Cilium & Hubble; Component Overview; Getting Started. Cilium Quick Installation; Getting Started with the Star Wars Demo; Terminology; Getting Help; Advanced Installation. Considerations on Node Pool Taints and Unmanaged Pods; Installation using Helm; Migrating a cluster to Cilium; Installation with K8s distributions; External ...

Cilium Service Mesh redefines traditional service mesh frameworks by integrating the mesh layer directly into the kernel using eBPF, thus eliminating the need for sidecar proxies. It manages connectivity at both the networking and application protocol layers, handling protocols like IP, TCP, UDP, HTTP, Kafka, gRPC, and DNS with greater efficiency.

$ kubectl apply -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cilium/cilium/HEAD/examples/kubernetes/servicemesh/basic-ingress.yaml This example routes requests for the path /details to the details service, and / to the productpage service.

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