The Cilium Vision
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Cilium claims four core pillars: scalability, identity‑based policy decoupled from addressing, kernel extensibility via eBPF, and simplicity with high performance. It builds Hubble for observability from BPF maps and perf buffers, implements a flat layer 3 network with policy segmentation, and engineers a path to bypass iptables such that pod networking can be faster than host networking. Roadmap is to be the default eBPF CNI for Kubernetes and extend the same model to VMs, servers, edge and multicloud.
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