GlossaryΒΆ
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 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/api-extension/custom-resources/#customresourcedefinitions
- DaemonSet
- https://kubernetes.io/docs/admin/daemons/
- Endpoint
- Endpoint
- Geneve
- https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-nvo3-geneve-04
- 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
- http://releases.llvm.org/
- NodeSelector
- https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/configuration/assign-pod-node/
- Pod
- Pods
- 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/admin/authorization/rbac/
- Service
- https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/services-networking/service/
- Slack channel
- Public community slack channel for everyone to ask questions https://cilium.herokuapp.com
- Volumes
- https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/configure-pod-container/configure-volume-storage/
- VXLAN
- https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7348