[Starlingx-discuss] Cilium over Calico

Wang, Yi C yi.c.wang at intel.com
Tue Oct 20 05:52:22 UTC 2020


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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