--- title: Cilium’s Past Points to Its Future | daily.dev description: Cilium is an open source project that offers security, observability, and networking capabilities. It aims to extend beyond Kubernetes and containers to VMs,... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/cilium-s-past-points-to-its-future-kbfkrkesb twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Cilium’s Past Points to Its Future | daily.dev og:description: Cilium is an open source project that offers security, observability, and networking capabilities. It aims to extend beyond Kubernetes and containers to VMs,... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/cilium-s-past-points-to-its-future-kbfkrkesb og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/KbfkRkEsB.png og:image:alt: Cilium’s Past Points to Its Future og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Cilium’s Past Points to Its Future **[The New Stack](https://daily.dev/sources/newstack)** · 6 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Cilium is an open source project that offers security, observability, and networking capabilities. It aims to extend beyond Kubernetes and containers to VMs, edge use cases, and other environments. Cilium's original mission is to bring eBPF to Kubernetes and become the best possible CNI for networking. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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