or direct routing - Identity based network policies - L3/L4/L7 Policies - Egress DNS policies - Use a lot of kernel features (Some kernel maintainers working on the project) - Socket acceleration for sidecars proxies. - A lot of traction in the community. - IPSEC communication between endpoints - Multi cluster communication Cilium
provides a way to use VXLan - New version will have BPF and socket acceleration support. - L3/L4 policies based on IPtables - L7 policies using Istio - Network policies based on SPIFFE - Integration with Openstack/Mesos Calico