cilium VS kilo

They would have had to add a few externals to get to Graduated but it's definitely a minority:

https://github.com/cilium/cilium/blob/main/MAINTAINERS.md

Next-gen networking thanks to Cilium

Hello there, I recently have the need to proxy my pod traffic through WireGuard. I initially have my eyes on https://github.com/angelnu/pod-gateway but I just couldn't get it working. It turns out that Cilium made a CVE patch couple years ago that basically nuked ability to do inter-pod encapsulated traffic (https://github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/15991). I wonder if there is any other way that can let me do this without switching out of Cilium? Thank you guys in advance :)

I have used Cilium as CNI and installing it with helm.

I'm using the default RaspiOS Lite 64bits and as highlighted in this issue, the RaspiOS kernel does not support CONFIG_ARM64_VA_BITS_48, which makes cilium-envoy to fail building. As solution, I was told to use either Ubuntu as base OS or Traefik Ingress Controller, which is not configured in K3s.

Working on integrating cilium and loxilb as a hobby k8s project. Both are eBPF based and will be interesting to see what will be the final outcome.

Particularly in Cilium, Gateway API is very proof-of-concept. So much so that you can't even change the type of the underlying service (or anything else about the generated object) yet.

Authentication using mTLS was later merged into cilium (https://github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/24263). It uses mTLS between cilium agents to authorize flows, but do note that the mTLS auth is de-coupled from the datapath transport (i.e. you need to configure cilium to use ipsec or wireguard, as otherwise traffic won't be encrypted). As a consequence, there are some gaps in the implementation right now, like packet drops. see https://github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/23808

network plugin to be used, based on the documentation. (Project Calico ,Flannel, Cilium )

For the particular case of creating a wireguard mesh network in kubernetes, I've been quite happy with Kilo[0]. Does anyone with experience in both kilo and netmaker know how they compare?

[0]: https://kilo.squat.ai/

Then using something like this: https://docs.tigera.io/calico-enterprise/latest/compliance/encrypt-cluster-pod-traffic#value or: https://github.com/squat/kilo

Another one for the alternatives list is Kilo[1]

It's a wireguard based kubernetes network overlay. I use it to access private services in my homelab cluster from my laptop, phone, etc.

[1] https://kilo.squat.ai

Sorry, big typo, I meant "Kilo" and not "Silo"...

Networking: Manually configured wireguard VPN between all nodes. I consider checking out kilo when I find some time though. VPS handles all incoming traffic (with ingress-nginx) but outbound traffic from containers uses regular network, no VPN.

Kilo — Wireguard-based multi-cloud overlay