InfoWorld: “Cilium launches eBPF-powered Kubernetes service mesh”
Cilium Service Mesh features eBPF-based connectivity, traffic management, security, and observability, supporting both sidecar and sidecar-less deployments.
Computer Weekly: “Kubernetes networking evolves: Cilium joins CNCF as an incubator”
Cilium (pronounced ‘see-lee-um’) provides networking, security and observability for cloud native environments by acting as a CNI (Container Network Interface) and enhanced networking layer for Kubernetes using eBPF (extended Berkley Packet Filter).
Cilium joins CNCF as an incubating project
The CNCF Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) has voted to accept Cilium as a CNCF incubating project. Cilium provides networking, security, and observability for cloud native environments by acting as a CNI and enhanced networking layer for…
Kubernetes network policies with Cilium and Linkerd
Guest post originally published on Buoyant’s blog by Zahari Dichev Applying L4 network policies with a service mesh In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to run Linkerd and Cilium together and how to use Cilium to…
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon EU 2026: End User TAB recommendations and tips
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon EU 2026 in Amsterdam will bring the cloud native community together with projects, vendors and end users in what is one of the largest open source events. In this post, we highlight sessions…
Have you ever heard of CNCF’s DevStats? It is a tool that tracks and quantifies all contribution activities within CNCF projects by pulling data from GitHub. Using this data, we can analyze ongoing development in CNCF…
How to Get the Most Out of KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2026
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe is almost here again, and if you’re heading to Amsterdam in March 2026, you’re probably feeling a mix of excitement and mild panic. Thousands of people. Hundreds of sessions. Endless hallway conversations,…
CNCF celebrates successful mentees from LFX Mentorship 2025 Term 3
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation is thrilled to congratulate the 2025 Term 3 (September – November) CNCF LFX Mentorship Program mentees who have successfully completed the program! This term saw a fantastic cohort of mentees working…
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon NA: Top sessions from the CNCF End User TAB
2025 brought significant developments in the cloud native landscape, with a strong focus on AI but new projects and end user reports in many other areas. As always, KubeCon is one of the key places we…
The mentorship flywheel: How CNCF is growing the next generation of cloud native leaders
A record year for mentorship, 187 graduates contributing to the ecosystem, and one engineer’s journey from “I didn’t know about Docker” to Kyverno maintainer. In 2025, the CNCF mentorship programs hit a milestone: 187 successful mentorship…