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Looking to gain hands-on experience with #Cilium? Join #LFEducation’s live instructor-led workshop β€˜Cilium in Action: #Kubernetes Security & Insight’ on Sept 15.

πŸ”— Learn more and register: training.linuxfoundation.org/training/cil...

#eBPF #CNCF #Networking #CloudNative #Security #OSS #Linux

08.08.2025 13:14 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Episode 191: Exploring New Features in Cilium 1.18 Duffie will explore some of the most exciting new features in Cilium's latest release, 1.18, which came out last week.Learn more about Cilium 1.18: https://g...

🎬This Friday, @mauilion.dev will explore the most exciting updates in Cilium 1.18.

Tune in to learn more about the latest improvements across networking, security, and observability!

eBPF & Cilium Office Hours
Friday, August 8, 2025 - 11am PT / 8pm CET
Livestream: youtube.com/live/jk1vfpS...

07.08.2025 16:47 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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πŸ“Š The State of #Kubernetes Networking 2025 will map what teams are running, how they’re combining tools, where they’re hitting limits, and who’s responsible for keeping it all working.

πŸ“ Share your insights for a chance to win a pass for #KubeCon North America: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

05.08.2025 16:09 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Applications are open for the next LFX mentorship with Cilium ✍ We are looking to improve how cilium.io content is discovered, ranked, and reused by search engines and AI tools

mentorship.lfx.linuxfoundation.org/project/ab29...

01.08.2025 10:12 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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GitHub - kakao/kubectl-cilium: A kubectl plugin to monitor Cilium BPF map pressure and detect eviction risks. A kubectl plugin to monitor Cilium BPF map pressure and detect eviction risks. - kakao/kubectl-cilium

A kubectl plugin to monitor Cilium BPF map pressure and detect eviction risks

01.08.2025 08:30 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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🎬This Friday @lizrice.com will be talking through Cilium co-creator André Martin's implementation of the Enigma Machine in #eBPF.

eBPF & Cilium Office Hours
Friday, 1 August, 2025 - 9am ET / 3pm CET
Livestream: www.youtube.com/live/a3Nfzie...

31.07.2025 14:47 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2025: 10 Years of Cilium: Connecting, Securing... View more about this event at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2025

Looking forward to sharing the latest updates from the @cilium.io community at KubeCon and sharing the stage with Neha Aggarwal, Sathish Krishnan, and Paul Arah

Add it to your schedule now and see you in Atlanta!

sched.co/27Nnr

31.07.2025 10:50 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Release 1.18.0 · cilium/cilium We are excited to announce the Cilium 1.18.0 release! A total of 3298 new commits have been contributed to this release by a growing community of over 955 developers and over 22,000 GitHub stars! ⭐...

🐝 Release Announcement 🐝

We are excited to announce the Cilium 1.18.0 release! A total of 3,298 new commits have been contributed to this release by a growing community of over 955 developers and over 22,000 GitHub stars!

Learn more: github.com/cilium/ciliu...

29.07.2025 16:29 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
eCHO News 87
TCP-in-UDP with eBPF
Cilium for Bare Metal

eCHO News 87 TCP-in-UDP with eBPF Cilium for Bare Metal

🐝 eCHO News Episode 87 🐝

TCP-in-UDP with eBPF
Cilium for Bare Metal

cs.co/echo-news-87

29.07.2025 14:11 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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CNI Migration Post-mortem: Flannel to Cilium on Talos While migrating from Flannel to Cilium on my Talos cluster, a configuration oversight caused 76 pods to fail during startup. This post documents the root cause and lessons learned about CNI behavior…

The most common reasons I hear people switching to Cilium. The only one missing is transparent encryption πŸ”

25.07.2025 08:30 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Episode 189: Cilium Cluster Mesh with Cluster API and KubeVirt YouTube video by eBPF & Cilium Community

🎬This Friday, @mauilion.dev will explore the Cilium Cluster Mesh with Cluster API and KubeVirt.

eBPF & Cilium Office Hours
Friday, 25th July, 2025 - 11 am PT / 8 pm CET
Livestream: youtube.com/live/VMwRtXn...

24.07.2025 14:08 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Super nice day at #KCDPeru #KCDLima πŸ‡΅πŸ‡ͺ❀️ Everyone here has been so friendly and welcoming - and it was fab to see several talks on #eBPF and @cilium.io!

20.07.2025 02:10 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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After 7.5 years, we finally updated the functionality overview in the @cilium.io README πŸ˜…

A lot has changed in that time, but the overall vision of the project is still very consistent. We just have a more articulate way to say it now πŸ˜€

github.com/cilium/ciliu...

18.07.2025 15:23 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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eCHO Episode 188: OOM and eBPF YouTube video by eBPF & Cilium Community

🎬This Friday, Daniel Finneran will explore OOM and eBPF.

eBPF & Cilium Office Hours
Friday, July 18th - 9 am ET / 3 pm CET / 2 pm UK Time
Livestream: youtube.com/live/KiXTy4c...

17.07.2025 15:16 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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🐝 eCHO News Episode 86 🐝

eBPF Networking at ByteDance
Installing Cilium on EKS

cs.co/echo-news-86

15.07.2025 09:48 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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eBPF Has a Bright Future in Infrastructure Development Linux kernel core maintainer: eBPF could bridge the worlds of VMs and containers through Netkit integration of Kube-Virt.

"For the next decade, eBPF will be a strategic platform choice for infrastructure developers"

@thenewstack.io nailed the quote from Daniel's keynote on eBPF

11.07.2025 15:23 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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I'm representing @cilium.io at @wearedevelopers.bsky.social World Congress. Stop by the @github.com booth if you want to chat Cilium, Tetragon, eBPF, or the future of open source

11.07.2025 09:44 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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eBPF Networking with Cilium: Secure & Observable Kubernetes Networking Table of Contents What’s This Article About? A Real-World Networking Nightmare Why eBPF + Cilium Matters in Kubernetes How Does It Work? (With a Dash of Geeky Magic) Use Cases: The Networking Swiss…

Is @cilium.io right for you?

mangohost.net/blog/ebpf-ne...

11.07.2025 08:31 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Trace Packets with pwru: Advanced eBPF Debugging for Networking Why Should You Care About Packet Tracing with pwru? If you’ve ever run a web server, managed a Docker swarm, or juggled a few VPSes, you know that networking issues are like gremlins: they pop up at…

pwru gives you X-ray vision into the kernel’s networking stack, showing you exactly where packets go, get dropped, or get mangled. It’s a must-have for anyone running cloud, VPS, Docker, or bare metal serversβ€”especially if you have firewalls, NAT, or containers

10.07.2025 08:30 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Elastic's journey to build Elastic Cloud Serverless Elastic Cloud Serverless is a new fully managed, stateless architecture that auto-scales no matter your data, usage, and performance needs. Find out why we built it, how we approached the…

Elastic chose to build Elastic Cloud Serverless on top of Cilium because it could help them solve their networking challenges across multiple cloud providers

09.07.2025 08:30 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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eCHO Episode 187: Cilium 1.18 Release YouTube video by eBPF & Cilium Community

🎬This Friday, @mauilion.dev‬ will explore the Cilium 1.18 Release.

eBPF & Cilium Office Hours
Friday, 11th July, 2025 - 11 am PT / 8 pm CET
Livestream: youtube.com/live/nipb5VM...

08.07.2025 16:31 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Simplifying Network Management with Cilium’s BGP Auto-Discovery Feature After years of managing Kubernetes clusters in data center environments, network engineers have learned that BGP configuration complexity…

"The feature demonstrates Cilium’s continued evolution from a basic CNI plugin toward a comprehensive platform for production Kubernetes networking"

02.07.2025 07:44 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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🐝 eCHO News Episode 85 🐝

Enigma Machine in eBPF
ECCO Leverages Cilium

cs.co/echo-news-85

01.07.2025 11:54 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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eBPF Foundation announces its 2nd CfP for Academic Research Awards

What makes eBPF exciting for me isn’t just what it can do today, I want to see where it will go in its second decade.

01.07.2025 08:49 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
A speaker stands on stage at the Open Source Summit North America, wearing a blue long-sleeve shirt and jeans. The stage features a red and white geometric mountain design in front of dark blue curtains. Audience members are seated and some are taking photos or using laptops. The event branding is displayed on a podium to the right.

A speaker stands on stage at the Open Source Summit North America, wearing a blue long-sleeve shirt and jeans. The stage features a red and white geometric mountain design in front of dark blue curtains. Audience members are seated and some are taking photos or using laptops. The event branding is displayed on a podium to the right.

A presentation slide at the Open Source Summit North America illustrates the structure of a Linux-based operating system. The diagram is divided into three sections: User Space, Kernel Space, and Hardware. User Space includes β€œApplications” and β€œLibraries.” Kernel Space includes β€œSystem Calls,” β€œFile System,” β€œInter-process communication,” β€œI/O and device management,” and β€œFundamental process management.” The Linux penguin mascot, Tux, appears next to the Kernel Space section. Hardware is shown at the base.

A presentation slide at the Open Source Summit North America illustrates the structure of a Linux-based operating system. The diagram is divided into three sections: User Space, Kernel Space, and Hardware. User Space includes β€œApplications” and β€œLibraries.” Kernel Space includes β€œSystem Calls,” β€œFile System,” β€œInter-process communication,” β€œI/O and device management,” and β€œFundamental process management.” The Linux penguin mascot, Tux, appears next to the Kernel Space section. Hardware is shown at the base.

eBPF: Unlocking Innovation in the Linux Kernel - Daniel Borkmann, Distinguished Software Engineer, Isovalent at Cisco and co-creator of eBPF and Cilium #OSSummit

25.06.2025 15:50 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Reasons to switch from MetalLB to Cilium πŸ‘‡

docs.rafay.co/blog/2025/06...

26.06.2025 08:59 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Add Guida to Cilium USERS by avthart Β· Pull Request #40161 Β· cilium/cilium Please ensure your pull request adheres to the following guidelines: For first time contributors, read Submitting a pull request All code is covered by unit and/or runtime tests where feasible. ...

🐝 New User Alert 🐝

Guida uses Cilium with their Managed Kubernetes offering both in public and private cloud

Use Cases: CNI, Network Policies, Observability

github.com/cilium/ciliu...

23.06.2025 10:17 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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eCHO Episode 185: Cilium, Gateway API, and GAMMA! Christine will discuss Cilium, Gateway API, and GAMMA!

🎬This Friday, Christine Kim will explore Cilium, Gateway API, and GAMMA!

eBPF & Cilium Office Hours
Friday, 20th June, 2025 - 10 AM EST/4 PM CET
Livestream: youtube.com/live/TJAHmwR...

19.06.2025 10:19 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Add Outscale to USERS.md by outscale-rce Β· Pull Request #40114 Β· cilium/cilium Please ensure your pull request adheres to the following guidelines: For first time contributors, read Submitting a pull request All code is covered by unit and/or runtime tests where feasible. ...

🐝 New User Alert 🐝

Cilium is the default CNI used by OUTSCALE on all clusters provisioned through their Kubernetes offering, OKS

github.com/cilium/ciliu...

19.06.2025 10:18 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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🐝 eCHO News Episode 84 🐝

eBPF for 5G
CiliumCon CfP Closing

@mauilion.dev

cs.co/echo-news-84

17.06.2025 11:24 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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