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)

#area-

Discussing a specific area of the project

#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

  1. Open a new GitHub issue in the cilium/community repo

  2. Specify the title “Slack: <Name>”

  3. Provide a description

  4. Find two Cilium committers to comment in the issue that they approve the creation of the Slack channel

  5. 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

The Cilium project has Special Interest Groups, or SIGs, with a common purpose of advancing the project with respect to a specific topic, such as network policy or documentation. Their goal is to enable a distributed decision structure and code ownership, as well as providing focused forums for getting work done, making decisions, and on boarding new contributors.

To learn more about what they are, how to get involved, or which ones are currently active, please check out the SIG.md in the community repo