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Description

Cilium is an open-source tool designed to enhance, secure, and monitor network interactions among container workloads and cloud-native environments, leveraging the groundbreaking Kernel technology known as eBPF. Unlike traditional setups, Kubernetes does not inherently include a Load Balancing solution, which is often left to cloud providers or the networking teams in private cloud settings. By utilizing BGP, Cilium can manage incoming traffic effectively, while also using XDP and eBPF to optimize performance. These combined technologies deliver a powerful and secure load balancing solution. Operating at the kernel level, Cilium and eBPF allow for informed decisions regarding the connectivity of various workloads, whether they reside on the same node or across different clusters. Through the integration of eBPF and XDP, Cilium significantly enhances latency and performance, replacing the need for Kube-proxy altogether, which streamlines operations and improves resource usage. This not only simplifies the network architecture but also empowers developers to focus more on application development rather than infrastructure concerns.

Description

Flannel serves as a specialized virtual networking layer tailored for containers. In the context of the OpenShift Container Platform, it can be utilized for container networking as an alternative to the standard software-defined networking (SDN) components. This approach is particularly advantageous when deploying OpenShift within a cloud environment that also employs SDN solutions, like OpenStack, allowing for the avoidance of double packet encapsulation across both systems. Each flanneld agent transmits this information to a centralized etcd store, enabling other agents on different hosts to effectively route packets to various containers within the flannel network. Additionally, the accompanying diagram showcases the architecture and the data flow involved in facilitating communication between containers over a flannel network. This setup enhances overall network efficiency and simplifies container management in complex environments.

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Integrations

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Alibaba Cloud Container Registry
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Ambient Mesh
Constellation
Dash0
DigitalOcean
GitLab
Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)
Isovalent
Kubernetes
Meshery
Mindflow
Netdata
OpenStack
Red Hat OpenShift
Slack
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Integrations

Mirantis Kubernetes Engine
Alibaba Cloud Container Registry
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Ambient Mesh
Constellation
Dash0
DigitalOcean
GitLab
Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)
Isovalent
Kubernetes
Meshery
Mindflow
Netdata
OpenStack
Red Hat OpenShift
Slack
Trip.com

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Vendor Details

Company Name

Cilium

Website

cilium.io

Vendor Details

Company Name

Red Hat

Founded

1993

Country

United States

Website

docs.openshift.com/container-platform/3.4/architecture/additional_concepts/flannel.html

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