Cilium Reviews

Cilium Description

Cilium is an open-source software that provides, secures and monitors network connectivity between container workloads. It is powered by the revolutionary Kernel technology eBPF. Kubernetes does not include Load Balancing. This is typically left to your cloud provider, or in private cloud environments, an exercise for you and your networking team. Cilium can draw this traffic using BGP and accelerate leveraging XDP or eBPF. These technologies combine to provide load balancing that is robust and secure. Cilium and eBPF work at the kernel layer. This level of context allows us to make intelligent decisions about how to connect different workloads, whether they are on the same node or between clusters. eBPF and XDP Cilium enable significant improvements in performance and latency, and eliminate the need for Kube proxy entirely.