Cilium

eBPF-based Networking, Security, and Observability

Cilium was accepted to CNCF on October 13, 2021 at the Incubating maturity level and then moved to the Graduated maturity level on October 11, 2023.

Project Insights

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Health Score

Healthy (80)

Total contributors

11,019

+2% vs. previous year

Total contributing organizations

2,695

+3% vs. previous year

GitHub Stars

6,281

+5% vs. previous year

GitHub Forks

1,310

+44% vs. previous year

Software Value

$1,127.2M

First commit

October 5, 1999

Cilium case studies

Michelin

Michelin


0 customer-impacting outages during migration

July 14, 2026

Consolidating on Cilium: How Michelin replaced two CNIs and gained network visibility at scale

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SNOW Corp.

SNOW Corp.


May 5, 2026

Scaling GenAI for 200M users: How SNOW Corp. orchestrates 1000+ GPUs to handle 700% viral traffic spikes

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Recorded Cilium programs

Cloud Native Live: Insights from the Radar

Cloud Native Live: Insights from the Radar

Presented by: CNCF, Slashdata
March 4, 2025 319 views