Cilium available as CNI plugin for Kubernetes clusters
Aaron Groom 
2025-02-21
Cilium is now available as container network interface (CNI) plugin for newly created clusters. Instead of being built on iptables, Cilium’s CNI is built on eBPF for improved latency and throughput.
Cilium provides flexible and robust security features via NetworkPolicy and similar resources. There’s a cool policy editor simulator, an interesting tutorial and great documentation available.
$ kubectl get pod -A NAMESPACE NAME READY STATUS RESTARTS AGE kube-system cilium-envoy-pwkh8 1/1 Running 0 2m30s kube-system cilium-envoy-pzl64 1/1 Running 0 2m3s kube-system cilium-hrzdg 1/1 Running 0 2m30s kube-system cilium-operator-595959995b-nnjql 1/1 Running 0 2m30s kube-system cilium-twd4l 1/1 Running 0 2m3s kube-system coredns-7c65d6cfc9-nk6cn 1/1 Running 0 2m30s kube-system coredns-7c65d6cfc9-ssw6t 1/1 Running 0 2m30s kube-system etcd-kubemaster 1/1 Running 0 2m35s kube-system kube-apiserver-kubemaster 1/1 Running 0 2m35s kube-system kube-controller-manager-kubemaster 1/1 Running 0 2m36s kube-system kube-proxy-4vvg4 1/1 Running 0 2m3s kube-system kube-proxy-f5pmc 1/1 Running 0 2m30s kube-system kube-scheduler-kubemaster 1/1 Running 0 2m35s
Give it a try and, as usual, let us know your feedback.