Cilium
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
3recommend
1warn against
Nov 13, 2025first mention
Mar 10, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“Cilium is definitely the gold standard if you’re working with Kubernetes clusters and need a full CNI”
“I use Cilium with these features for custom made k8s clusters with Talos OS without any kube-proxy.”
runs custom k8s clustersswitched from kube-proxyon “Show HN: Spliff – Correlating XDP and TLS via eBPF (…”
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“Works fine, no need to require dhcp6.”
Caveats and dissent
“cilium falls apart at around a few thousand nodes”
Often compared with
Who recommends it in their own words
Threads where it came up
- Show HN: Spliff – Correlating XDP and TLS via eBPF (Building a Linux EDR) 2 mentions
- Single command deployment of a Gitops Talos Kubernetes cluster on Proxmox 1 mention
- Building the largest known Kubernetes cluster 1 mention
- A day at Hetzner Online in the Falkenstein data center 1 mention
- Helm 4.0 1 mention
Data: cilium.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 6
“with ArgoCD and Cilium”
“Cilium is definitely the gold standard if you’re working with Kubernetes clusters and need a full CNI”
“I use Cilium with these features for custom made k8s clusters with Talos OS without any kube-proxy.”
“cilium falls apart at around a few thousand nodes”
“Works fine, no need to require dhcp6.”
“Traefik and Cilium are the only helm charts I use”