Sharing experiences and learning from other users is essential. We are frequently asked who is using a particular feature of Cilium so people can get in contact with other users to share experiences and best practices. People also often want to know if product/platform X has integrated Cilium. While the Cilium Slack community allows users to get in touch, it can be challenging to find this information quickly.
The following is a directory of adopters to help identify users of individual features. The users themselves directly maintain the list.
If you are using Cilium or it is integrated into your product, service, or platform, 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 nickname 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: Elastic Path
D: Elastic Path is using Cilium in their CloudOps for Kubernetes production clusters
U: CNI
L: https://documentation.elasticpath.com/cloudops-kubernetes/docs/index.html
Q: @Neil Seward
* N: Equinix
D: Equinix Metal is using Cilium for production and non-production environments on bare metal
U: CNI, CiliumClusterWideNetworkpolicy, CiliumNetworkPolicy, BGP advertisements, Hubble, network visibility
L: https://metal.equinix.com/
Q: @matoszz
* 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: Infomaniak
D: Infomaniak is using Cilium in their production clusters (self-hosted, bare-metal and openstack)
U: Networking, CiliumNetworkPolicy, BPF NodePort, Direct routing, kube-proxy replacement
L: https://www.infomaniak.com/en
Q: @reneluria
* 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: Kube-OVN
D: Kube-OVN uses Cilium to enhance service performance, security and monitoring.
U: CNI-Chaining, Hubble, kube-proxy replacement
L: https://github.com/kubeovn/kube-ovn/blob/master/docs/IntegrateCiliumIntoKubeOVN.md
Q: @oilbeater
* 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: Liquid Reply
D: Liquid Reply is a professional service provider and utilizes Cilium on suitable projects and implementations.
U: Networking, network policy, Hubble for network visibility, Security
L: http://liquidreply.com
Q: @mkorbi
* 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: MyFitnessPal
D: MyFitnessPal trusts Cilium with high volume user traffic in AWS on self-hosted k8s clusters as the CNI plugin and in GKE with Dataplane V2
U: Networking (CNI, Maglev, kube-proxy replacement, local redirect policy), Observability (Network metrics with Hubble, DNS proxy, service maps, policy troubleshooting) and Security (Network Policy)
L: https://www.myfitnesspal.com
* N: Mux, Inc.
D: Mux deploys Cilium on self-hosted k8s clusters (Cluster API) in GCP and AWS to run its video streaming/analytics platforms.
U: Pod networking (CNI, IPAM, Host-reachable Services), Hubble, Cluster-mesh. TBD: Network Policy, Transparent Encryption (WG), Host Firewall.
L: https://mux.com
Q: @dilyevsky
* N: New York Times (the)
D: The New York Times is using Cilium on EKS to build multi-region multi-tenant shared clusters
U: Networking (CNI, EKS IPAM, Maglev, kube-proxy replacement, Direct Routing), Observability (Network metrics with Hubble, policy troubleshooting) and Security (Network Policy)
L: https://www.nytimes.com/
Q: @prune
* 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: Simple
D: Simple uses cilium as default CNI in Kubernetes clusters (AWS EKS) for both development and production environments.
U: CNI, Network Policies, Hubble
L: https://simple.life
Q: @sergeyshevch
* 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