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

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Cilium is a networking, observability, and security solution with an eBPF-based dataplane. It provides a simple flat Layer 3 network with the ability to span multiple clusters in either a native routing or …

Cilium, short eyelashlike filament that is numerous on tissue cells of most animals and provides the means for locomotion of protozoans of the phylum Ciliophora.

Cilium as a L7 Load Balancer - Cilium natively supports Ingress Controller and its successor Gateway API -Comparable to external-facing load-balancer

Cilium is the standard for Kubernetes networking and security with policy enforcement, service mesh capabilities, and enhanced visibility through Hubble, which collectively provide a scalable, secure, …

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 is a cloud native technology for networking, observability, and security. [1] It is based on the kernel technology eBPF, originally for better networking performance, and now leverages many …

What Is Cilium? Cilium is an open-source solution for providing networking and security between container workloads. Developed using the go language, it heavily relies on eBPF technology in the …

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