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Cilium 1.4 released

by rochacon on 2/14/19, 2:04 AM with 18 comments

• by hardwaresofton on 2/14/19, 6:06 AM

  Support for multi-cluster routing is huge. One of the main pain points managing Kubernetes in the large-deployment or cross-cloud use case is how to bridge multiple clusters. SIG multi-cluster works on related architecture issues/designs full time, and there are lots of other solutions out there, but they're all kind of large and bulky.

  If one "thing" (Cilium) can give me local-node breakneck speed (via eBPF magic) and cross-cluster (v1.4) and node <-> node routing I would absolutely drop everything and switch to it (my deployment is very very small).

  All that said, I'm currently very happy with kube-router[0], because it gave me all-in-one node & service/pod routing (as in, you can actually get rid of kube-proxy. Cilium is now way higher on my short list of things to check out now as well.

  [0]: https://www.kube-router.io/

• by 01100011 on 2/14/19, 8:04 AM

  For those of us that don't know everything, it is sometimes helpful to put a description of a project in the title when announcing a new release.

  In case anyone is ignorant like me:

  > Cilium is open source software for transparently providing and securing the network and API connectivity between application services deployed using Linux container management platforms like Kubernetes, Docker, and Mesos.