Cilium's Honeycomb: Cultivating Technical Excellence in a Diverse Ecosystem

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A sponsored keynote at KubeCon celebrating the diverse ecosystem that makes Cilium successful.

Abstract

Just as a beehive has many cells and activities, Cilium isn’t just one thing - it’s a powerful tool serving many purposes:

  • Massive Scale: Supporting the largest cloud deployments
  • Segmentation: Granular security policies to isolate workloads
  • Multi-cloud/Multi-cluster: Connecting Kubernetes clusters across environments
  • Security: Safe harbor for critical infrastructure

Key Stats from the Talk

  • 95% of Cilium users run multiple Kubernetes clusters
  • 161 organizations publicly listed as Cilium adopters
  • 912 contributors to the Cilium project on GitHub

The People Behind Cilium

  • Open source contributors building and adding to the hive
  • CNCF ecosystem with certifications like CCNI
  • Cilium Champions teaching and guiding the community
  • Isovalent at Cisco supporting the project’s values