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0 pointshosh2y ago0 comments

Cillium has been bought out by Cisco, so its monetization is only a matter of time.

Also, not everyone needs to implement a service mesh.

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candiddevmike2y ago

Cillium is a CNCF project and Apache 2 licensed. Isovalent and their enterprise product were bought by Cisco.

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FridgeSeal2y ago

Neither Cilium nor Hubble are service meshes.

Cilium is a CNI - the functionality that provides the K8s cluster inter-pod networking. The fact that it uses eBPF to deliver its functionality is what gives it the impressive observability you usually only get from a service mesh. I agree that not everyone needs a service mesh.

nullify882y ago

You are right that cilium is a CNI but one of its many features is also providing a sidecar-less service mesh using eBPF. https://cilium.io/use-cases/service-mesh/

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