CiliumCon Europe 2026
2026-03-23
Amsterdam, Netherlands
[CiliumCon Europe 2023, CiliumCon Europe 2025, CiliumCon Europe 2026]
as the organisers put it
CiliumCon Europe 2026 has officially wrapped! Thank you to all the attendees who joined us. Watch keynotes and all breakout sessions on the CNCF YouTube Channel. Review session slides from speakers…
who it's for
Cilium operators, platform engineers, Kubernetes operators, network engineers, security engineers, observability engineers, cloud infrastructure engineers
topics
Cilium 1.19 features; eBPF datapath plugins; DPU offload CNI shim; DNS-over-HTTPS proxy with Envoy; agent-side flow aggregation; Cilium ClusterMesh cross-cluster; LB-IPAM with BGP and Gateway API; Tetragon per-workload policies; ingress bandwidth policy CRD (Spiderpool + Multus); eBPF/XDP two-tier load balancer; BigTCP superpackets and UDP-tunnel extension
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Welcome + Opening Remarks | Hemanth Malla, Mahé Tardy | 06m |
Cilium 1.19 lands with about 3,000 new commits and 1,000+ contributors and specific networking changes: double-wildcard FQDN patterns, optional ICMPv4… | ||
| Network Flow Aggregation: Pay for the Logs You Care About! | Mereta Degutyte, Anubhab Majumdar, Vamsi Kalapala | 23m |
Agent-side flow aggregation in Cilium 1.19 serializes selected fields into a deterministic key, collapses per-direction flows into counts… | ||
| It Is Always DNS… Even at the Edge: Taming Proxy-Only Lookups With Cilium and eBPF | Hector Monsalve, Thomas Gosteli | 26m |
Edge deployments hit customer DNS servers that return NXDOMAIN for public names so the team builds a small DNS-over-HTTPS proxy plus Cilium and Envoy wiring to… | ||
| Lightning Talk: Accelerating Cilium: Our Journey on Offloading Cilium To DPU | Vijay Inavolu | 13m |
Demonstrates a near-complete offload of Cilium’s primary CNI to a DPU with minimal Cilium changes, implemented as an offload CNI shim that picks VFs, maps them… | ||
| Built in the Open: Why Cisco Is Betting on eBPF, Ci... | Bill Mulligan | 06m |
Cisco describes concrete engineering work: investing upstream in Cilium, eBPF, and Tetragon and claiming they’re now a decade old and core to the next decade… | ||
| Connecting the World: Your Hands-on Guide To Cilium ClusterMesh and MCS-API | Arthur Outhenin-Chalandre, Quentin Swiech | 28m |
Demo shows a working GitOps deployment: two GCP clusters in separate VPCs managed by FluxCD, with kube-proxy replaced by Cilium, CoreDNS auto-configured, and… | ||
| Cloud Native Promises, On-Premises: Bump Your Load Balancing To V2 With Cilium | Mikael Johansson Länsberg | 24m |
Etraveli replaces proprietary appliances with Cilium (eBPF + Envoy) to move load balancing to a V2 that advertises the same load‑balancer CIDR from all nodes… | ||
| One Policy To Rule Them All? Scaling Tetragon Without Flooding Your Cluster | Alessio Biancalana | 20m |
SUSE adapts Tetragon to enforce a per-workload security model and removes wasteful BPF preallocation that costs about 3 MB saved per unused policy, which… | ||
| Lightning Talk: What's Happening in Cilium? Current Projects You Need To See | Martynas Pumputis | 14m |
Cilium adds a plugin system that injects custom eBPF programs before or after existing datapath hooks so teams can run data path plugins for custom proxies or… | ||
| Lightning Talk: Closing the Gap: Fair North–South Bandwidth Management for Tenants | Weizhou Lan | 10m |
Built a lightweight in-cluster solution that enforces a single tenant-level north–south ingress cap across many Envoy replicas using Cilium and Spiderpool with… | ||
| Closing Remarks | Hemanth Malla, Mahé Tardy | 03m |
Community work happens through multiple SIGs with a recurring Celium weekly community meeting every Wednesday, a year-old discussions tab for long-running… | ||
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