Community Meetings

The Cilium contributors gather regularly for a Zoom call open to everyone. During that time, we discuss:

Status of the next releases for each supported Cilium release
Current state of our CI: flakes being investigated and upcoming changes
Development items for the next release
Any other community-relevant topics during the open session

If you want to discuss something during the next meeting’s open session, you can add it to the meeting’s Google doc. The Zoom link to the meeting is available in the #development Slack channel and in the meeting notes.

Weekly Community Meeting

This is a weekly meeting for all contributors.

Date: Every Wednesday at 8:00 AM US/Pacific (Los Angeles)
Meeting notes: Google Doc

Monthly APAC Community Meeting

This is a monthly community meeting held at APAC friendly time.

Date: Every third Wednesday at 4:30 UTC
Meeting notes: Google Doc

Slack

Our Cilium & eBPF Slack is the main discussion space for the Cilium community.

Slack channels

Name	Purpose
`#general`	General user discussions & questions
`#hubble`	Questions on Hubble
`#kubernetes`	Kubernetes-specific questions
`#networkpolicy`	Questions on network policies
`#release`	Release announcements only
`#service-mesh`	Questions on Cilium Service Mesh
`#tetragon`	Questions on Tetragon

You can join the following channels if you are looking to contribute to Cilium code, documentation, or website:

Name	Purpose
`#development`	Development discussions around Cilium
`#ebpf-go-dev`	Development discussion for the eBPF Go library
`#git`	GitHub notifications
`#sig-`*	SIG-specific discussions (see below)
`#testing`	Testing and CI discussions
`#cilium-website`	Development discussions around cilium.io

If you are interested in eBPF, then the following channels are for you:

Name	Purpose
`#ebpf`	General eBPF questions
`#ebpf-go`	Questions on the eBPF Go library
`#ebpf-lsm`	Questions on BPF Linux Security Modules (LSM)
`#echo-news`	Contributions to eCHO News
`#ebpf-for-windows`	Discussions around eBPF for Windows

Our Slack hosts channels for eBPF and Cilium-related events online and in person.

Name	Purpose
`#ciliumcon`	CiliumCon
`#ctf`	Cilium and eBPF capture-the-flag challenges
`#ebpf-summit`	eBPF Summit

How to create a Slack channel

Open a new GitHub issue in the cilium/community repo
Specify the title “Slack: <Name>”
Provide a description
Find two Cilium committers to comment in the issue that they approve the creation of the Slack channel
Not all Slack channels need to be listed on this page, but you can submit a PR if you would like to include it here

Special Interest Groups

All SIGs

The following is a list of special interest groups (SIGs) that are meeting on a regular interval. See the respective slack channel for exact meeting cadence and meeting links.

SIG	Meeting	Slack	Description
BGP	None	`#sig-bgp`	Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) discussions.
Cluster Mesh	None	`#sig-clustermesh`	Cluster Mesh discussions.
Datapath	On demand	`#sig-datapath`	Development discussions for Linux and eBPF code used in Cilium.
Documentation	None	`#sig-docs`	Documentation, Helm references, and translations.
Envoy	On demand	`#sig-envoy`	Envoy, Istio and maintenance of all L7 protocol parsers.
Hubble	During community meeting	`#sig-hubble`	All Hubble-related code: Server, UI, CLI and Relay.
Modularization	None	`#sig-modularization`	Discussions around further modularizing the cilium/cilium codebase.
Policy	Second Tuesday	`#sig-policy`	Network policy and enforcement.
Release Management	None	`#launchpad`	Release management and backport coordination.
Scalability	Fourth Thursday of the month	`#sig-scalability`	Cilium scalability discussions.

How to create a SIG

Open a new GitHub issue in the cilium/cilium repo
Specify the title “SIG-Request: <Name>”
Provide a description
Find two Cilium committers to support the SIG
Ask on #development to get the Slack channel and Zoom meeting created
Submit a PR to update the documentation to get your new SIG listed