Glossary

Cilium has some terms with special meanings. These should all be covered throughout the documentation but for convenience we have also listed some of them below with short descriptions. If you need more information, please ask us on Slack. Feel free to extend this document with words you expected to see here.

CNI

https://github.com/containernetworking/cni

ConfigMap

https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/configure-pod-container/configure-pod-configmap/

CustomResourceDefinition

https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/extend-kubernetes/api-extension/custom-resources/#customresourcedefinitions

DaemonSet

https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/workloads/controllers/daemonset/

Endpoint

Endpoint

Geneve

https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-nvo3-geneve-04

HeadlessServices

https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/services-networking/service/#headless-services

Helm

https://helm.sh/

iproute2

https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/net/iproute2/

Linux kernel

https://www.kernel.org/

llvm

https://releases.llvm.org/

NodeSelector

https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/configuration/assign-pod-node/

Pod

Pods

https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/workloads/pods/pod/

Policy

A Cilium policy consists of a list of rules. The security policy can be specified in The Kubernetes NetworkPolicy format or The Cilium policy language.

RBAC

https://kubernetes.io/docs/reference/access-authn-authz/rbac/

Service

https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/services-networking/service/

Slack channel

Public community slack channel for everyone to ask questions https://cilium.herokuapp.com

Volumes

https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/configure-pod-container/configure-volume-storage/

VXLAN

https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7348