Running Cilium CNI Plugin on OpenShift

Zhimin Wen
ITNEXT
Published in
4 min readOct 4, 2021

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Cilium is one of the certified CNI plugins on OpenShift. Powered by the Linux kernel eBPF technology, it not only provides the networking to Kubernetes but also enabling the observability and security control with the kernel that is transparent to the applications.

This paper shared my exploration of the Cilium setup on OpenShift.

OCP Cluster setup

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