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From Tickets to Pull Requests: Running Cilium in a GitOps Platform

Run Cilium as a GitOps platform: use Argo CD, Kyverno, and isopolicy CI.

  • Dean Lewis, Senior Technical Marketing Engineer

Buzzing Beyond Clouds: The Illustrated Children's Guide to Cilium

Buzzing Beyond Clouds: The Illustrated Children's Guide to Cilium, and follow up to Buzzing Across Space: The Illustrated Children's Guide to eBPF, is now available. This second illustrated book brings the Cilium story to life in a way that can be digested by readers of all ages and levels of technical expertise.

  • Bill Mulligan, Community

  • Katie Meinders, Community Builder

Secure Multitenancy with OpenShift and Isovalent Networking for Kubernetes

OpenShift has long treated multitenancy as a core platform concern and in this blog we explore how Isovalent Networking for Kubernetes fits perfectly in this model!

  • Christian Hernandez, Technical Marketing Engineer

5 Things you didn’t know about Cilium Network Polices

Not all CNIs are created equal, and many assume that CiliumNetworkPolicies are the same as standard Kubernetes NetworkPolicies. At first glance, they can look similar. In this blog, we'll go over the top 5 things you may not know about Cilium Network Policies.

  • Christian Hernandez, Technical Marketing Engineer

KubeCon Europe 2026 Wrap-Up

KubeCon Europe 2026 in Amsterdam felt less like a conference focused on Kubernetes and more like a glimpse into where the cloud native ecosystem is heading next. The conversations have shifted, and Kubernetes itself is no longer the main attraction. Instead, the focus has moved to the workloads running on top of it. In this wrap-up blog, we'll take you through all the great things that happened!

  • Christian Hernandez, Technical Marketing Engineer

  • Donia Chaiehloudj, Software Engineer and Community

  • Mahé Tardy

  • Duffie Cooley, Field CTO Isovalent & CNCF Ambassador

  • Katie Meinders, Community Builder

Give to Gain: Celebrating Growth Through Opportunity

As March comes to an end we take this moment to reflect on how we celebrated International Women’s Day at Isovalent in 2026. We aligned it with the official theme of this year “Give to Gain” and we truly resonated to it.

  • Ella (Vanda-Elvira) Speranska, Event Manager, Culture Bee

The eBee Quest Lands at KubeCon Amsterdam

When labs turned into a map, a leaderboard, and a little friendly competition, the eBee Quest was born. A hands-on adventure through Cloud Native networking and security—at events, online, and beyond. Pick your path, climb the leaderboard, and keep the quest going wherever you are.

  • Raphaël Pinson, Senior Technical Marketing Engineer

From Hyperscalers to Neoclouds: Why Cloud Providers Are Standardizing on Cilium

From CoreWeave to OVHcloud, cloud providers are making Cilium their default CNI. We map 18+ providers and explore why eBPF networking is becoming the standard.

  • Nico Vibert, Principal Technical Marketing Engineer

Isovalent Networking for Virtualization: migrate VMs without breaking the network

Isovalent Networking for Virtualization removes the pain of VM migration!

  • Dean Lewis, Senior Technical Marketing Engineer

From Static Rules to Dynamic Intent: Network Policy with Cilium matchExpressions

Are Kubernetes NetworkPolicies enough? NetworkPolicies are the built-in mechanism in Kubernetes for controlling traffic but only operate at Layer 3 and Layer 4. In this blog we'll go over how Cilium gives you networking control to Layer 7 and beyond!

  • Christian Hernandez, Technical Marketing Engineer

Multi AZ by Default, Local by Design, Cutting Cross Zone Traffic With Cilium

Use Cilium to cut cross zone traffic in multi AZ Kubernetes clusters.

  • Dean Lewis, Senior Technical Marketing Engineer

Tutorial: Deploying Red Hat OpenShift with Cilium

Bringing eBPF-based Networking, Observability, Security to Red Hat OpenShift

  • Dean Lewis, Senior Technical Marketing Engineer