Zwischen den Jahren, where I have a lot of time to reflect (and eat cookies). Looking back on 2025 through the lens of the Cilium Annual Report and the eBPF Foundation Year in Review, it’s clear that while Cilium is celebrating its tenth year as a mature industry leader, the eBPF Foundation is focused on the foundational stewardship needed to carry the entire ecosystem through its next decade of growth.
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30th December 2025
Zwischen den Jahren, where I have a lot of time to reflect (and eat cookies). Looking back on 2025 through the lens of the Cilium Annual Report and the eBPF Foundation Year in Review, it’s clear that while Cilium is celebrating its tenth year as a mature industry leader, the eBPF Foundation is focused on the foundational stewardship needed to carry the entire ecosystem through its next decade of growth.
As it turns double digits, we can call Cilium the industry standard for cloud native networking and it is also positioned to tackle the big problems for the next decade from AI data plane demands to enabling seamless networking between containers and virtual machines to IPv6 only clusters. Now the second largest CNCF project, behind only Kubernetes, Cilium’s next decade will be about continuing to build on that production proven maturity.
The eBPF Foundation is focused on the foundational stewardship needed to carry the entire ecosystem through its next decade of growth. By funding cutting edge academic research and developer conferences and launching a global meetup and fellowship program, the Foundation is moving the ecosystem towards long term sustainability. We also published 7 case studies and a white paper that highlight gains, like Meta reducing CPU cycles by 20%, to show the power of the technology. I've got some cross country skiing to do so let’s 🐝 -gin.
Upcoming on Jan 9: eCHO Episode 200: Celebrating a Decade of Cilium
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