Cilium

eBPF-based Networking, Observability, and Security

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

Fair (55)

Total contributors

11,041

+3% vs. previous year

Total contributing organizations

2,621

+1% vs. previous year

GitHub Stars

6,322

+9% vs. previous year

GitHub Forks

1,353

+43% vs. previous year

Software Value

$1,127.2M

First commit

October 5, 1999

Cilium case studies

Preferred Networks

Preferred Networks


5 production Kubernetes clusters standardized on a single CNI plugin, spanning on-premises and cloud IaaS environments.

September 11, 2026

Preferred Networks unifies container networking for AI clusters with Cilium

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Celonis

Celonis


360 million requests processed every day.

August 18, 2026

How Celonis Standardized Networking Across 150+ Kubernetes Clusters 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 322 views