Cilium
Cilium is an open-source, cloud-native networking, security, and observability solution for container workloads, particularly for Kubernetes. It leverages eBPF (extended Berkeley Packet Filter) technology within the Linux kernel to provide high-performance network connectivity, fine-grained…
Key facts
- First appeared
- 2017
- Category
- cloud_infrastructure
- Problem solved
- Cilium was created to address the limitations of traditional IP-address-based networking and security in highly dynamic, ephemeral container and microservices environments. It provides identity-based security, deep observability, and API-aware network policy enforcement that older CNI plugins and firewall solutions struggled to offer at scale and performance in cloud-native infrastructure.
- Platforms
- Linux (kernel 4.9+), Kubernetes, Any environment running containerized workloads on Linux, OpenShift
Related technologies
Notable users
- Sky
- Datadog
- AWS
- Adobe
- Microsoft Azure
- Bell