Component Overview Terminology Networking Network Security eBPF Datapath Observability Kubernetes Integration Multi-Cluster (Cluster Mesh) Getting Help FAQ Slack GitHub Training Enterprise support Security Environments via SSH VMs for Testing VM images Known Issues and Workarounds Further Assistance Integration Testing Prerequisites Running all tests Testing individual packages Running individual tests Automatically supported by Linux can be enabled. When to use this mode: This mode has minimal infrastructure and integration requirements. It works on almost any network infrastructure as the only requirement is IP connectivity

Component Overview Terminology Networking Network Security eBPF Datapath Observability Kubernetes Integration Multi-Cluster (Cluster Mesh) Getting Help FAQ Slack GitHub Training Enterprise support Security supported by Linux can be enabled. When to use this mode: This mode has minimal infrastructure and integration requirements. It works on almost any network infrastructure as the only requirement is IP connectivity underlying networking infrastructure. This mode works well with: Native IPv6 networks In conjunction with cloud network routers If you are already running routing daemons Load Balancing Cilium implements distributed

Component Overview Terminology Networking Network Security eBPF Datapath Observability Kubernetes Integration Multi-Cluster (Cluster Mesh) Getting Help FAQ Slack GitHub Training Enterprise support Security supported by Linux can be enabled. When to use this mode: This mode has minimal infrastructure and integration requirements. It works on almost any network infrastructure as the only requirement is IP connectivity underlying networking infrastructure. This mode works well with: Native IPv6 networks In conjunction with cloud network routers If you are already running routing daemons Load Balancing Cilium implements distributed

Concepts Component Overview Terminology Networking Network Security eBPF Datapath Kubernetes Integration Multi-Cluster (Cluster Mesh) Getting Help FAQ Slack GitHub Security Bugs Operations System supported by Linux can be enabled. When to use this mode: This mode has minimal infrastructure and integration requirements. It works on almost any network infrastructure as the only requirement is IP connectivity underlying networking infrastructure. This mode works well with: Native IPv6 networks In conjunction with cloud network routers If you are already running routing daemons Load balancing Distributed load balancing

Multi Host Networking Security Datapath Failure Behavior Architecture Datapath Scale Kubernetes Integration Getting Help FAQ Slack GitHub Security Bugs Integrations Kubernetes Introduction Concepts supported by Linux can be enabled. When to use this mode: This mode has minimal infrastructure and integration requirements. It works on almost any network infrastructure as the only requirement is IP connectivity underlying networking infrastructure. This mode works well with: Native IPv6 networks In conjunction with cloud network routers If you are already running routing daemons Load balancing Distributed load balancing

Multi Host Networking Security Datapath Failure Behavior Architecture Datapath Scale Kubernetes Integration Getting Help FAQ Slack GitHub Security Bugs Integrations Kubernetes Introduction Concepts supported by Linux can be enabled. When to use this mode: This mode has minimal infrastructure and integration requirements. It works on almost any network infrastructure as the only requirement is IP connectivity underlying networking infrastructure. This mode works well with: Native IPv6 networks In conjunction with cloud network routers If you are already running routing daemons Load balancing Distributed load balancing

underlying networking infrastructure. This mode works well with: Na�ve IPv6 networks In conjunc�on with cloud network routers If you are already running rou�ng daemons Load balancing Distributed load balancing The following guides cover the installa�on steps for managed Kubernetes environments as offered by cloud providers. If a par�cular offering is not covered, the guide Standard Installa�on has a good chance Installation on Google GKE GKE Requirements Install the Google Cloud SDK ( gcloud ) see [Installing Google Cloud SDK] (h�ps://cloud.google.com/sdk/install) Create a project or use an exis�ng one export