Why Cilium is awesome?

  • It makes disadvantages of iptables disappear. And always gets the best from the Linux kernel.
  • Cluster Mesh / multi-cluster.
  • Makes Istio faster.
  • Offers L7 API Aware filtering as a Kubernetes resource.
  • Integrates with the other popular CNI plugins – Calico, Flannel, Weave, Lyft, AWS CNI.

 TOC