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Cilium: Hosting, Uses and Alternatives.

eBPF-based networking, security, and observability platform for Kubernetes and cloud-native infrastructure.

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License

Open Source

Self-hosting

Available

Docker

Supported

Cloud

Not confirmed

What Cilium Is Best For

  • Kubernetes networking
  • Network policies
  • Service mesh and cluster observability

Stack and Deployment Notes

Apache-2.0 for user space components; BPF templates are GPL-2.0-only or BSD-2-Clause.

GoeBPFKubernetesHubblePrometheus

Production readiness: Enterprise Ready

Alternatives Cilium May Replace

Calico, kube-proxy, Traditional sidecar service mesh stacks, Custom Kubernetes firewalls

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