AWS picks Cilium for Networking & Security on EKS Anywhere
AWS picked Cilium as the built-in default for networking and security. As you create your first EKS Anywhere (EKS-A) cluster, you will automatically have Cilium installed.
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Most cloud providers have their own custom CNIs, resulting in operational complexity for customers operating in multi-cloud environments. For example, the configuration and capabilities of the AWS VPC CNI and OpenShift SDN are significantly different. This fragmentation increases overhead in installing, operating, and troubleshooting network interfaces across cloud environments.
Cilium addresses these issues by presenting a unified networking solution tailored for Kubernetes that is compatible across various clouds, providing a consistent workflow that simplifies operations. Using eBPF, Cilium extends beyond Kubernetes basic networking capabilities, offering enhanced observability, security, and reduced latency. Major cloud providers, including Google Cloud, AWS, Azure, and Alibaba, have all standardized on Cilium for Kubernetes networking and security as a testament to its scalability, performance, and rich feature set.
Our customers get all the benefits from a scalability and performance perspective which is key for a platform to provide and they are setting up their cloud native platform for the next set of challenges.
Cilium combines with the existing control plane of Azure CNI to bring a high-performance eBPF-based dataplane with extensive security and observability capabilities to Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
Learn MoreHetzner Cloud Adopts Cilium for a Cloud Native Ingress Architecture
Hetzner Cloud, a leading German public cloud provider, recently overhauled its ingress architecture to pursue modern and scalable cloud services. Hetzner was scouting for a Kubernetes-native solution with ECMP, firewall, IPv6, and DSR capabilities. Cilium emerged as the ideal choice. Before adopting Cilium, Hetzner ran tests deploying different Cilium configurations in a Kubernetes cluster to benchmark RPS and throughput and then checking the CPU usage as a metric to compare the tests. These tests showed Cilium provided a massive increase in both RPS and throughput while still reducing CPU usage.
With Cilium's Kubernetes-native support, scalability, enhanced security, IPv6 compatibility, and efficiency with DSR, Cilium is a compelling choice for cloud providers. The results of Hetzner Cloud's performance tests highlight the value of adopting Cilium to elevate performance, security, and scalability in the cloud infrastructure landscape.
Hetzner was looking to upgrade the company's current ingress architecture to a Kubernetes native solution that a offers ECMP, firewall, IPv6, and DSR capabilities. Overall, Cilium provided a massive increase in both RPS and throughput while still reducing CPU usage.
Hetzner Cloud is a German public cloud provider that supplies a variety of cloud products like load balancers, virtual machines, storage, and firewalls
Read The Blog PostEmpowering Azure’s AKS Clusters with Cilium
Cilium's open source data plane is natively integrated with Azure CNI in Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). This integration allows users to tap into Cilium's feature-rich ecosystem, right from the Azure Marketplace.
The Cilium community has put in a tremendous amount of effort to bootstrap the Cilium project, which is the most mature eBPF implementation for Kubernetes out there. We at Google actively contribute to the Cilium project, so that the entire Kubernetes community can leverage the advances we are making with eBPF.
Google uses Cilium and eBPF as the new networking dataplane for Google’s managed Kubernetes offering (GKE) and Anthos.
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Cilium on Azure: Scale and Performance
Cilium in Azure provides highly efficient load-balancing, extensive network security features, and rich observability integrated well along with robust and scalable Azure CNI IP management and native Azure networking routing
From Managed Kubernetes to App Platform: Cilium Usage at DigitalOcean
Digital Ocean migrated its Managed Kubernetes offering DKOS from to Cilium. Today Cilium powers over 10,000 DOKS clusters.
Cilium, eBPF, and EKS Anywhere
EKS-Anywhere comes with Cilium as its default CNI. Liz Rice and Duffie Cooley talk about the details
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Google chooses Cilium in Datapath V2 for GKE and Anthos
GKE Dataplane V2 harnesses the power of eBPF and Cilium to bring Kubernetes Network Policy logging to Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) among other features.
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