Advanced BGP Features

BGP support was initially introduced in Cilium 1.10 and subsequent improvements have been made since, such as the recent introduction of IPv6 support in Cilium 1.12 and Service IP Advertisements in Cilium 1.13.

In Cilium 1.14, we introduced more BGP features, including:

– BGP Timers Customization
– eBGP Multihop
– BGP Graceful Restart

In Cilium 1.15, the following features are being added:

– BGP Peering Security with MD5
– BGP Communities Support

In this lab, the user will learn about both these new features and how they can simplify their network connectivity operations.