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 Cilium 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/rfc8926
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/scheduling-eviction/assign-pod-node/#nodeselector
Pod: 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/
Volumes: https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/configure-pod-container/configure-volume-storage/
VXLAN: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7348