Getting Started

We’re happy you’re interested in contributing to the Cilium project.

This section of the Cilium documentation will help you make sure you have an environment capable of testing changes to the Cilium source code, and that you understand the workflow of getting these changes reviewed and merged upstream.

• How To Contribute
  • Clone and Provision Environment
  • Submitting a pull request
  • Getting a pull request merged
    • Pull request review process
    • Developer’s Certificate of Origin
• Development Setup
  • Requirements
  • Vagrant Setup
    • Using the provided Vagrantfile
    • Options
    • Manual Installation
    • Notes
  • Local Development in Vagrant Box
    • Build Cilium
    • Install to dev environment
    • Restart Cilium service
  • Making Changes
  • Add/update a golang dependency
  • Debugging
    • Datapath code
• Building Container Images
  • Developer images
  • Official release images
  • Update cilium-builder and cilium-runtime images
  • Nightly Docker image