Cilium CNI & SKS
The Cilium CNI is now even easier to use with SKS. 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:
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
Cilium is an open source software providing and securing network connectivity between application workloads like containers or processes. The software is integrated into orchestration frameworks like Kubernetes.
A Linux eBPF Kernel 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.
