Calico

Project Calico is an open-source networking and network security solution for containers, virtual machines, and native host-based workloads. It provides a highly scalable and flexible network fabric, enabling fine-grained network policy enforcement across various environments, most notably…

Key facts

First appeared: 2014
Category: cloud_infrastructure
Problem solved: Project Calico was created to solve the challenge of providing scalable, secure, and flexible network connectivity and policy enforcement for dynamic container workloads, especially within orchestrators like Kubernetes. Traditional virtual networking solutions struggled with the scale, agility, and granular security requirements of microservices, lacking native support for container identity-based policy and efficient cross-host communication.
Platforms: Linux, Windows

Related technologies

Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)
Kubernetes
Docker Swarm
OpenShift
Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
OpenStack
AWS EKS

Notable users

Netflix
Google (GKE)
Microsoft (Azure)
Amazon (EKS)
Capital One
Many enterprises adopting Kubernetes