---
title: "Cilium CNI \u0026 SKS"
date: 2022-06-03
tags: ["Improvement","SKS"]
url: https://changelog.exoscale.com/cilium-cni-sks/
---
# Cilium CNI & SKS

<p>The <b>Cilium CNI</b> is now even easier to use with <a href="https://www.exoscale.com/sks/" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">SKS</a>. While SKS has had previous support for other CNIs than our default Calico setup, we now enabled a simple switch to specify Cilium instead. While initiating your cluster you can specify Cilium as CNI plugin using the --cni flag:</p>

```sh
exo compute sks create my-test-cluster \
    --zone de-fra-1 \
    --cni cilium \
    --service-level pro \
    --nodepool-name my-test-nodepool \
    --nodepool-size 3 \
    --nodepool-security-group sks-security-group
```

<p class=""><a href="https://github.com/cilium/cilium" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Cilium</a> is an open source software providing and securing <b>network connectivity</b> between application workloads like containers or processes. The software is integrated into orchestration frameworks like Kubernetes.</p><p class="">A <b>Linux eBPF Kernel</b> is at the foundation of Cilium. The kernel supports dynamic insertion of eBPF bytecode, like security, visibility, and networking control logic. eBPF is used to provide high-performance networking, multi-cluster capabilities, extensive network security capabilities and more.</p>

[How to use Cilium on SKS](https://community.exoscale.com/documentation/sks/quick-start/)