Cilium releases 2025 annual report: A decade of cloud native networking
A decade on from its first commit in 2015, 2025 marks a significant milestone for the Cilium project. The community has published the 2025 Cilium Annual Report: A Decade of Cloud Native Networking, which reflects on…
Safely managing Cilium network policies in Kubernetes: Testing and simulation techniques
Network policy changes are among the most frequent operations in a Kubernetes cluster. They are also among the most delicate, as even a small mistake can lead to widespread traffic disruption. This tutorial walks through several…
Connecting distributed Kubernetes with Cilium and SD-WAN: Building an intelligent network fabric
Learn how Kubernetes-native traffic management and SD-WAN integration can deliver consistent security, observability, and performance across distributed clusters. The challenge of distributed Kubernetes networking Modern businesses are rapidly adopting distributed architectures to meet growing demands for…
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2025 Co-Located Event Deep Dive: CiliumCon
CiliumCon began at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2023 in Amsterdam, and this will be our sixth time hosting it. Like Cilium itself, the event has grown significantly since its inception, expanding from its original focus to…
Securing the Node: A Primer on Cilium’s Host Firewall
When discussing Kubernetes network security, much of the attention focuses on pod-to-pod traffic, ingress controllers, and service meshes. But what about the underlying nodes themselves, the very foundation on which our workloads run? The attack surface…
Cloud Native Live: Using Cilium to enforce gRPC-aware security policies
gRPC is a high-performance RPC framework built on top of the protobuf serialization/deserialization library popularized by Google. There are gRPC bindings for many programming languages, and the efficiency of the protobuf parsing as well as advantages…
Unlocking cloud native security with Cilium and eBPF
Ambassador post originally published on Dev.to by Syed Asad Raza Introduction 🌐🔒🚀 As cloud-native applications scale, securing workloads while maintaining performance becomes critical. This is where Cilium, an open-source networking, observability, and security tool, shines. Backed…
Cilium releases 2024 annual report
Following a year of significant milestones in 2023, 2024 for Cilium was pivotal in that organizations are now leveraging the project to manage their entire Kubernetes networking stack. We are pleased to share the 2024 Cilium…
A look at the Cilium CNCF project journey report
We’re excited to share the Cilium project journey report! Cilium is an open source platform designed for cloud-native networking, security, and observability, leveraging eBPF technology. It provides secure, high-performance network connectivity and deep visibility for Kubernetes…