IBM Cloud Kubernetes Services deploys Calico Opensource in all our managed Kubernetes and Openshift clusters for both policy and for pod networking.
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Project Calico is an open-source project with an active development and user community. Calico Open Source was born out of this project and has grown to become the most widely adopted solution for container networking and security, powering 8M+ nodes daily across 166 countries.
IBM Cloud Kubernetes Services deploys Calico Opensource in all our managed Kubernetes and Openshift clusters for both policy and for pod networking.
FD.io integrates Calico with the FD.io/VPP data plane to provide optimal performance for Containerized Networking Functions.
Tanzu Kubernetes Grid supports Calico open-source as a CNI option, where it provides reliable pod network connectivity and security.
We have been using Calico in our Openstack clusters. By peering directly with the network infrastructure using BGP, our customers can benefit from ECMP load balancing, path redundancy, and in the future, advanced features like gslb/ IP anycast.
We are currently developing our Release-2 roadmap, and are focused on integrating Project Calico into our Managed Elastic Kubernetes Service (mEKS) product.
We recommend Calico as the default networking and security solution for customers using the Rafay Kubernetes Operations Platform. No one should run Kubernetes without Calico networking and security.
It’s extremely helpful to know what endpoints your services are talking to. We have a much-improved security posture.
We were able to achieve EU GDPR compliance and securely deploy 20 new cloud-native applications.
A single, unified platform for all Kubernetes networking, network security, and observability needs that works on any Kubernetes distribution
Works with container, VM, and bare metal workloads
Works with eBPF, iptables, nftables, Windows, and VPP data planes with a future-proof pluggable architecture
Built to go faster with lower CPU consumption, to help you get the best possible performance from your investment in clusters
Simplify the enforcement of network security with Calico network policies
Gain deep insights with “Whisker” into workload traffic to quickly identify and troubleshoot issues
Enterprise-grade advanced traffic control based on the Kubernetes Gateway API
Enterprise hardened networking and simplified network security for cloud-native applications
Here are some recommendations for getting involved with Project Calico. There are many paths though—the only hard rule on getting involved is that we all aim to be excellent to each other and you need to read and follow our Code of Conduct. You can and should expect to see others following it, too.
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