--- title: "How k0rdent and Cilium Turn Kubernetes Sprawl into a Platform" url: https://daily.dev/posts/how-k0rdent-and-cilium-turn-kubernetes-sprawl-into-a-platform-xts3683ym source_url: https://cilium.io/blog/2026/07/08/how-k0rdent-and-cilium-turn-kubernetes-sprawl-into-a-platform type: article source: "cilium" published: 2026-07-14T08:52:56.138Z updated: 2026-07-14T10:22:02.202Z tags: ["linux", "kubernetes", "cilium"] reading_time: 9 upvotes: 3 comments: 0 language: 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. # How k0rdent and Cilium Turn Kubernetes Sprawl into a Platform **[cilium](https://daily.dev/sources/cilium)** · 9 min read · 3 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Platform teams managing large Kubernetes fleets face configuration drift and inconsistency across clusters. k0rdent provides a declarative control plane for provisioning and templating cluster fleets, while Cilium (built on eBPF) delivers CNI networking, identity-based security, and L7 observability via Hubble. Together, they let teams bake networking and policy into the cluster definition itself rather than adding them post-deployment. The walkthrough demonstrates deploying a bare-metal cluster via k0rdent's remote-cluster ClusterTemplate with Cilium as the CNI, then applying a CiliumNetworkPolicy that enforces Layer 7 HTTP rules — blocking access to a /private endpoint while allowing /public — without any service mesh or sidecar required. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Kubernetes for platform teams: Leveraging k0s and k0rdent](https://daily.dev/posts/kubernetes-for-platform-teams-leveraging-k0s-and-k0rdent-2tiekdtrt) · CNCF · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Mirantis' Kubernetes Management Platform k0rdent Reaches v1.2.0](https://daily.dev/posts/mirantis-kubernetes-management-platform-k0rdent-reaches-v1-2-0-9q1t5raum) · InfoQ · 2 upvotes · 0 comments - [Secure Multitenancy with OpenShift and Isovalent Networking for Kubernetes](https://daily.dev/posts/secure-multitenancy-with-openshift-and-isovalent-networking-for-kubernetes-bm3f03uib) · Isovalent · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [From Tickets to Pull Requests: Running Cilium in a GitOps Platform](https://daily.dev/posts/from-tickets-to-pull-requests-running-cilium-in-a-gitops-platform-xtxewaslf) · Isovalent · 1 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#linux](https://daily.dev/tags/linux), [#kubernetes](https://daily.dev/tags/kubernetes), [#cilium](https://daily.dev/tags/cilium) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/how-k0rdent-and-cilium-turn-kubernetes-sprawl-into-a-platform-xts3683ym)