I took off last week to celebrate Thanksgiving with my family (and recover from KubeCon) so no big announcements this week, but there are two quotes from the community that I think are very interesting to dive into a little bit more.
The first from this blog "Cilium has evolved from “just another CNI” to “the CNI that ate all other CNIs” (in a good way). It’s setting its sights on being “the only stack” for Kubernetes networking. Over the years, it has evolved to address key areas that would typically require multiple tools."
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3rd December 2024
I took off last week to celebrate Thanksgiving with my family (and recover from KubeCon) so no big announcements this week, but there are two quotes from the community that I think are very interesting to dive into a little bit more.
The first from this blog "Cilium has evolved from “just another CNI” to “the CNI that ate all other CNIs” (in a good way). It’s setting its sights on being “the only stack” for Kubernetes networking. Over the years, it has evolved to address key areas that would typically require multiple tools."
The growing platform engineering movement emphasizes reducing tools and complexity and nowhere is this trend more impactful than in networking, where the long-term cost of maintaining a fragmented stack is unsustainably high. We’ve also seen this pattern across iterations of networking—each generation consolidates around a dominant stack. Cloud native is no different, with Cilium well-positioned to take the lead in unifying the Kubernetes networking stack.
On the eBPF side, The New Stack recently highlighted "The eBPF Foundation’s proactive approach to addressing security concerns should be commended. It demonstrates a commitment to fostering a secure ecosystem for this powerful technology" for their audit and threat model. Continuously verifying the safety and security of eBPF will only help accelerate the ecosystem and its great to see this work being done.
CiliumCon CfPs are due Wednesday and I have a few to review so let’s 🐝 -gin.
"The eBPF Foundation’s proactive approach to addressing security concerns should be commended. It demonstrates a commitment to fostering a secure ecosystem for this powerful technology"
"Cilium has evolved from “just another CNI” to “the CNI that ate all other CNIs” (in a good way). It’s setting its sights on being “the only stack” for Kubernetes networking"
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