[Starlingx-discuss] Cilium over Calico

[bnovickovs at weecodelab.com]

There is new Cilium version which has VM support: 
https://cilium.io/blog/2020/11/10/cilium-19

On 2020-10-20 06:52, Wang, Yi C wrote:
> Technically, I think it is doable. But for the time being, I guess
> there is no strong motivation to replace calico with cilium.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: bnovickovs at weecodelab.com <bnovickovs at weecodelab.com>
> Sent: Thursday, October 15, 2020 5:34 AM
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> Subject: Re: [Starlingx-discuss] Cilium over Calico
> 
> On 2020-10-14 22:21, bnovickovs at weecodelab.com wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I am wondering, if there is possibility of using Cilium CNI instead of
>> Calico?
>> 
>> According to this comparison
>> https://itnext.io/benchmark-results-of-kubernetes-network-plugins-cni-
>> over-10gbit-s-network-updated-august-2020-6e1b757b9e49
>> ; Calico is still better in terms of performance/resource consumption.
>> However, if we consider production-grade bare metal k8s cluster,
>> Cilium offers:
>>  - better visibility/observation
>>  - encryption
>>  - and it seems like comparing to Calico, Cilium project seems to be
>> more active.
>> 
>> Thank you
> 
> Forgot to mention Hubble https://github.com/cilium/hubble
> 
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