Cilium

eBPF-based Networking, Security, and Observability

Cilium was accepted to CNCF on October 13, 2021 at the Incubating maturity level and then moved to the Graduated maturity level on October 11, 2023.

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Health Score

Excellent (82)

Total contributors

49,086

+21% vs. previous year

Total contributing organizations

11,299

+17% vs. previous year

GitHub Stars

47,424

+14% vs. previous year

GitHub Forks

6,532

+21% vs. previous year

Software Value

$1,143.6M

First commit

October 5, 1999

Cilium case studies

SNCF

SNCF


March 25, 2026

Reaching for Strategic Autonomy by Building On-Premises Kubernetes with Cluster API and ArgoCD

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Zynga

Zynga


March 2, 2026

Zynga Scales Gaming Infrastructure by Eliminating Networking Bottlenecks with Cilium

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Recorded Cilium programs

Cloud Native Live: Insights from the Radar

Cloud Native Live: Insights from the Radar

Presented by: CNCF, Slashdata
March 4, 2025 318 views
CNCF On demand webinar: A tale of three service meshes

CNCF On demand webinar: A tale of three service meshes

Presented by: Infosys
May 2, 2024 1,305 views