Sharing experiences and learning from other users is essential. We are frequently asked who is using a particular feature of Cilium to get in contact with other users to share experiences and best-practices. While the Cilium Slack community allows users to get in touch, it can be challenging to find users of a particular feature quickly.
The following is a directory of users to help identify users of individual features. The users themselves directly maintain the list.
If you are using Cilium, please consider adding yourself as a user with a quick description of your use case by opening a pull request to this file and adding a section describing your usage of Cilium. If you are open to others contacting you about your use of Cilium on Slack, add your Slack nick as well.
N: Name of user (company or individual)
D: Description
U: Usage of features
L: Link with further information (optional)
Q: Contacts available for questions (optional)
Example entry:
* N: Cilium Example User Inc.
D: Cilium Example User Inc. is using Cilium for scientific purposes
U: ENI networking, DNS policies, ClusterMesh
Q: @slacknick1, @slacknick2
- You must represent the user listed. Do NOT add entries on behalf of other users.
- There is no minimum deployment size but we request to list permanent deployments only, i.e., no demo or trial deployments. Commercial or production use is not required. A well-done home lab setup can be equally interesting as a large-scale commercial deployment.
* N: AccuKnox
D: AccuKnox uses Cilium for network visibility and network policy enforcement.
U: L3/L4/L7 policy enforcement using Identity, External/VM Workloads, Network Visibility using Hubble
L: https://www.accuknox.com/spifee-identity-for-cilium-presentation-at-kubecon-2021, https://www.accuknox.com/cilium
Q: @nyrahul
* N: Acoss
D: Acoss is using cilium as their main CNI plugin (self hosted k8s, On-premises)
U: CiliumNetworkPolicy, Hubble, BPF NodePort, Direct routing
L: @JrCs
* N: Adobe, Inc.
D: Adobe's Project Ethos uses Cilium for multi-tenant, multi-cloud clusters
U: L3/L4/L7 policies
L: https://youtu.be/39FLsSc2P-Y
* N: Alibaba Cloud
D: Alibaba Cloud is using Cilium together with Terway CNI as the high-performance ENI dataplane
U: Networking, NetworkPolicy, Services, IPVLAN
L: https://www.alibabacloud.com/blog/how-does-alibaba-cloud-build-high-performance-cloud-native-pod-networks-in-production-environments_596590
* N: Amazon Web Services (AWS)
D: AWS uses Cilium as the default CNI for EKS Anywhere
U: Networking, NetworkPolicy, Services
L: https://isovalent.com/blog/post/2021-09-aws-eks-anywhere-chooses-cilium
* N: APPUiO by VSHN
D: VSHN uses Cilium for multi-tenant networking on APPUiO Cloud and as an add-on to APPUiO Managed, both on Red Hat OpenShift and Cloud Kubernetes.
U: CNI, Networking, NetworkPolicy, Hubble, IPAM, Kubernetes services
L: https://products.docs.vshn.ch/products/appuio/managed/addon_cilium.html and https://www.appuio.cloud
* N: ArangoDB Oasis
D: ArangoDB Oasis is using Cilium in to separate database deployments in our multi-tenant cloud environment
U: Networking, CiliumNetworkPolicy(cluster & local), Hubble, IPAM
L: https://cloud.arangodb.com
Q: @ewoutp @Robert-Stam
* N: Ayedo
D: Ayedo builds and operates cloud-native container platforms based on Kubernetes
U: Hubble for Visibility, Cilium as Mesh between Services
L: https://www.ayedo.de/
* N: Canonical
D: Canonical's Kubernetes distribution microk8s uses Cilium as CNI plugin
U: Networking, NetworkPolicy, and Kubernetes services
L: https://microk8s.io/
* N: CENGN - Centre of Excellence in Next Generation Networks
D: CENGN is using Cilium in multiple clusters including production and development clusters (self-hosted k8s, On-premises)
U: L3/L4/L7 network policies, Monitoring via Prometheus metrics & Hubble
L: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXm7yZE2rk4
Q: @rmaika @mohahmed13
* N: Civo
D: Civo is offering Cilium as the CNI option for Civo users to choose it for their Civo Kubernetes clusters.
U: Networking and network policy
L: https://www.civo.com/kubernetes
* N: Cognite
D: Cognite is an industrial DataOps provider and uses Cilium as the CNI plugin
Q: @Robert Collins
* N: Crane
D: Crane uses Cilium as the default CNI
U: Networking, NetworkPolicy, Services
L: /~https://github.com/slzcc/crane
Q: @slzcc
* N: DaoCloud - spiderpool & merbridge
D: spiderpool is using Cilium as their main CNI plugin for overlay and merbridge is using Cilium eBPF library to speed up your Service Mesh
U: CNI, Service load-balancing, cluster mesh
L: /~https://github.com/spidernet-io/spiderpool, /~https://github.com/merbridge/merbridge
Q: @weizhoublue, @kebe7jun
* N: Datadog
D: Datadog is using Cilium in AWS (self-hosted k8s)
U: ENI Networking, Service load-balancing, Encryption
Q: @lbernail, @roboll
* N: DigitalOcean
D: DigitalOcean is using Cilium as the CNI for Digital Ocean's managed Kubernetes Services (DOKS)
U: Networking and network policy
L: /~https://github.com/digitalocean/DOKS
* N: finleap connect
D: finleap connect is using Cilium in their production clusters (self-hosted, bare-metal, private cloud)
U: CNI, NetworkPolicies
Q: @chue
* N: Form3
D: Form3 is using Cilium in their production clusters (self-hosted, bare-metal, private cloud)
U: Service load-balancing, Encryption, CNI, NetworkPolicies
Q: @kevholditch-f3, samo-f3, ewilde-form3
* N: GitLab
D: GitLab is using Cilium to implement network policies inside Auto DevOps deployed clusters for customers using k8s
U: Network policies
L: https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/clusters/applications.html#install-cilium-using-gitlab-ci
Q: @ap4y @whaber
* N: Google
D: Google is using Cilium in Anthos and Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) as Dataplane V2
U: Networking, network policy, and network visibility
L: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/containers-kubernetes/bringing-ebpf-and-cilium-to-google-kubernetes-engine
* N: JUMO
D: JUMO is using Cilium as their CNI plugin for all of their AWS-hosted EKS clusters
U: Networking, network policy, network visibility, cluster mesh
Q: @Matthieu ANTOINE, @Carlos Castro, @Joao Coutinho (Slack)
* N: kOps
D: kOps is using Cilium as one of the supported CNIs
U: Networking, Hubble, Encryption, kube-proxy replacement
L: kops.sigs.k8s.io/
Q: @olemarkus
* N: Kubermatic
D: Kubermatic Kubernetes Platform is using Cilium as a one of the supported CNIs.
U: Networking, network policy, Hubble for network visibility
L: /~https://github.com/kubermatic/kubermatic
* N: KubeSphere - KubeKey
D: KubeKey is an open-source lightweight tool for deploying Kubernetes clusters and addons efficiently. It uses Cilium as one of the supported CNIs.
U: Networking, Security, Hubble UI for network visibility
L: /~https://github.com/kubesphere/kubekey
Q: @FeynmanZhou
* N: Meltwater
D: Meltwater is using Cilim in AWS on self-hosted multi-tenant k8s clusters as the CNI plugin
U: ENI Networking, Encryption, Monitoring via Prometheus metrics & Hubble
Q: @recollir, @dezmodue
* N: Nexxiot
D: Nexxiot is an IoT SaaS provider using Cilium as the main CNI plugin on AWS EKS clusters
U: Networking (IPAM, CNI), Security (Network Policies), Visibility (hubble)
L: https://nexxiot.com
* N: Northflank
D: Northflank is a PaaS and uses Cilium as the main CNI plugin across GCP, Azure, AWS and bare-metal
U: Networking, network policy, hubble, packet monitoring and network visibility
L: https://northflank.com
Q: @NorthflankWill, @Champgoblem
* N: Palantir Technologies Inc.
D: Palantir is using Cilium as their main CNI plugin in AWS (self hosted k8s).
U: ENI networking, L3/L4 policies, FQDN based policy, FQDN filtering
Q: ungureanuvladvictor
* N: Poseidon Laboratories
D: Poseidon's Typhoon Kubernetes distro uses Cilium as the default CNI and its used internally
U: Networking, policies, service load balancing
L: /~https://github.com/poseidon/typhoon/
Q: @dghubble @typhoon8s
* N: PostFinance AG
D: PostFinance is using Cilium as their CNI for all mission critical, on premise k8s clusters
U: Networking, network policies, kube-proxy replacement
L: /~https://github.com/postfinance
* N: Radio France
D: Radio France is using Cilium in their production clusters (self-hosted k8s with kops on AWS)
U: Mainly Service load-balancing
Q: @francoisj
* N: Rancher Labs, now part of SUSE
D: Rancher Labs certified Kubernetes distribution RKE2 can be deployed with Cilium.
U: Networking and network policy
L: /~https://github.com/rancher/rke and /~https://github.com/rancher/rke2
* N: Rapyuta Robotics.
D: Rapyuta is using cilium as their main CNI plugin. (self hosted k8s)
U: CiliumNetworkPolicy, Hubble, Service Load Balancing.
Q: @Gowtham
* N: SAP
D: SAP uses Cilium for multiple internal scenarios. For examples for self-hosted Kubernetes scenarios on AWS with SAP Concur and for managed Kubernetes clusters provided with Gardener Project across AWS, Azure, GCP, and OpenStack.
U: CNI , Overlay Network, Network Policies
L: https://www.concur.com, https://gardener.cloud/, /~https://github.com/gardener/gardener-extension-networking-cilium
Q: @dragan (SAP Concur), @docktofuture & @ScheererJ (Gardener)
* N: Scaleway
D: Scaleway uses Cilium as the default CNI for Kubernetes Kapsule
U: Networking, NetworkPolicy, Services
L: @jtherin @remyleone
* N: SmileDirectClub
D: SmileDirectClub is using Cilium in manufacturing clusters (self-hosted on vSphere and AWS EC2)
U: CNI
Q: @joey, @onur.gokkocabas
* N: Snapp
D: Snapp is using Cilium in production for its on premise openshift clusters
U: CNI, Network Policies, Hubble
Q: @m-yosefpor
* N: Sphere Knowledge
D: Sphere Knowledge is using Cilium in AWS (self-hosted k8s & EKS)
U: ENI Networking, Network policies, Service load-balancing, Hubble
Q: @mvisonneau
* N: Sportradar
D: Sportradar is using Cilium as their main CNI plugin in AWS (using kops)
U: L3/L4 policies, Hubble, BPF NodePort, CiliumClusterwideNetworkPolicy
Q: @Eric Bailey, @Ole Markus
* N: Talos
D: Cilium is one of the supported CNI's in Talos
U: Networking, NetworkPolicy, Hubble, BPF NodePort
L: /~https://github.com/talos-systems/talos
Q: @frezbo, @smira, @Ulexus
* N: Tencent Cloud
D: Tencent Cloud container team designed the TKE hybrid cloud container network solution with Cilium as the cluster network base
U: Networking, CNI
L: https://segmentfault.com/a/1190000040298428/en
* N: T-Systems International
D: TSI uses Cilium for it's Open Sovereign Cloud product, including as a CNI for Gardener-based Kubernetes clusters and bare-metal infrastructure managed by OnMetal.
U: CNI, overlay network, NetworkPolicies
Q: @ManuStoessel
* N: uSwitch
D: uSwitch is using Cilium in AWS for all their production clusters (self hosted k8s)
U: ClusterMesh, CNI-Chaining (with amazon-vpc-cni-k8s)
Q: @jirving
* N: Utmost Software, Inc
D: Utmost is using Cilium in all tiers of its Kubernetes ecosystem to implement zero trust
U: CNI, DefaultDeny(Zero Trust), Hubble, CiliumNetworkPolicy, CiliumClusterwideNetworkPolicy
L: https://blog.utmost.co/zero-trust-security-at-utmost
Q: @andrewholt
* N: Trip.com
D: Trip.com is using Cilium in their production clusters (self-hosted k8s, On-premises and AWS)
U: ENI Networking, Service load-balancing, Direct routing (via Bird)
L: https://ctripcloud.github.io/cilium/network/2020/01/19/trip-first-step-towards-cloud-native-networking.html
Q: @ArthurChiao
* N: Tailor Brands
D: Tailor Brands is using Cilium in their production, staging, and development clusters (AWS EKS)
U: CNI (instead of amazon-vpc-cni-k8s), Hubble, Datadog Integration for Prometheus metrics
Q: @liorrozen
* N: Wildlife Studios
D: Wildlife Studios is using Cilium in AWS for all their game production clusters (self hosted k8s)
U: ClusterMesh, Global Service Load Balancing.
Q: @Oki @luanguimaraesla
* N: Yahoo!
D: Yahoo is using Cilium for L4 North-South Load Balancing for Kubernetes Services
L: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-C86fBMcp5Q