Service Meshopen-sourceTrending
Cilium
eBPF-based networking, observability, and security for Kubernetes
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Scalability
very high
Performance
very high
Learning Curve
steep
Maturity
stable
Languages: Go, C, eBPF
Architecture: cni, service-mesh, ebpf
When to Use
- +High-performance needs
- +Network security critical
- +Modern kernels
When Not to Use
- -Non-Kubernetes
- -Older kernels
- -Simple networking
Strengths
- High performance
- eBPF efficiency
- Security
- Observability
Weaknesses
- Kubernetes only
- eBPF kernel requirements
- Complexity
Operations
Maintenance
medium
Monitoring
medium
Backup/Recovery
moderate
Hosting: self-hosted, managed
Quick Facts
- Category
- Service Mesh
- License
- open source
- Pricing
- freemium (free tier)
- Community
- large
- Docs Quality
- excellent
- Trend
- rapidly growing
- Vendor Lock-in
- none
- Data Portability
- easy
Compliance
GDPR
HIPAA
SOC 2
PCI-DSS
Encryption
Audit Logs
RBAC
MFA
Best For
mediumlargeenterprise
Use Cases
- Kubernetes networking
- Network security
- Observability
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