Cilium: Up and Running

Nico Vibert & Filip Nikolic & and James Laverack

Language: English

Published: Feb 18, 2026

Description:

Powered by a kernel technology called eBPF, Cilium has taken the Kubernetes space by storm. It has been adopted by thousands of users and selected as the standard for Kubernetes networking by the likes of Google, AWS, and Microsoft. At the time of writing, it remains the only graduated Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) project in the Cloud Native Networking category, highlighting its broad scale, adoption, and maturity.