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Cilium

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6.1No. 5 of 27
in Microsegmentation Software
  • Recognised40% of the score20
  • Phone app26% of the score0
  • Documented20% of the score71
  • Free plan14% of the score100
Free plan
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Runs on
Linux, self-hosted
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Summary

Cilium is ranked #5 of 27 in microsegmentation software on Samsung Mobile US Press. It runs on Linux, Self-hosted. There is a free plan.

Cilium plans and pricing

All plans
Cilium Free Open source · Linux kernel >= 5.10 or equivalent · AMD64 and AArch64 cilium.io · 3 Oct 2026

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Deployment model
hybridcilium.io

Facts

Purpose
Cilium is an open source, cloud native solution for providing, securing, and observing network connectivity between workloads, powered by eBPF.cilium.io · 3 Oct 2026
Networking
Its listed networking use cases include CNI, Layer 4 load balancing, Cluster Mesh, kube-proxy replacement, BGP, service mesh, Gateway API, IPv6, host firewall, and ingress.cilium.io · 3 Oct 2026
Observability
Cilium lists service maps, metrics and tracing export, identity-aware L3/L4/DNS network flow logs, and advanced network protocol visibility.cilium.io · 3 Oct 2026
Security features
Listed security capabilities include transparent encryption, network policy, and runtime security.cilium.io · 3 Oct 2026
Hubble
Hubble is a distributed networking and security observability platform built on Cilium and eBPF that provides visibility into service communication and behavior.docs.cilium.io · 3 Oct 2026
Policy
Cilium network policies can enforce identity-aware rules at L3–L7, including DNS- and HTTP-aware filtering.docs.cilium.io · 3 Oct 2026
Encryption
Cilium supports transparent encryption of managed host and endpoint traffic using IPsec, WireGuard, or ztunnel; ztunnel support is marked beta.docs.cilium.io · 3 Oct 2026
Integrations
Cilium documentation describes integrations with Prometheus and Grafana for metrics and dashboards.docs.cilium.io · 3 Oct 2026
Kubernetes support
The quick installation guide lists Kubernetes distributions and services including GKE, AKS, EKS, OpenShift, RKE, k3s, and Alibaba ACK.docs.cilium.io · 3 Oct 2026
System requirements
The container image requires AMD64 or AArch64 hosts running Linux kernel 5.10 or later, or an equivalent kernel such as 4.18 on RHEL 8.10.docs.cilium.io · 3 Oct 2026
Scale limitation
The quick installation guide says environments larger than 500 nodes should refer to the Getting Started guide for large environments or specific datapath modes.docs.cilium.io · 3 Oct 2026
Security review
Cilium documentation links to 2022 security and fuzzing audits; the security audit summary reports no critical or high severity vulnerabilities found in that audit.docs.cilium.io · 3 Oct 2026
Community support
Cilium documentation directs users to its FAQ, Slack channels, and GitHub issue tracker for help and bug reports.docs.cilium.io · 3 Oct 2026
Project status
Cilium identifies itself as a CNCF graduated project.cilium.io · 3 Oct 2026

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