Cloud Native Days France 2026 recap: Cilium everywhere, CERN keynotes, public sector, and community....

Cilium is an innovative open-source project that redefines networking and security for containerized applications. By leveraging the power of eBPF (extended Berkeley Packet Filter), Cilium provides efficient networking and transparent security capabilities for modern cloud-native environments. Readers exploring Cilium can gain insights into advanced networking concepts, such as service mesh architectures, network policy enforcement, and distributed application security.

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A first-person recap of Cloud Native Days France 2026, a 1,700-attendee event in Paris. Highlights include a CERN keynote on scaling to 10 PB/s of data with flat budgets, French government open-source Kubernetes initiatives, and multiple Cilium-focused sessions covering ClusterMesh multi-cluster networking, Direct Server Return with eBPF, and a hands-on lab platform that has served 100,000+ sessions. The post also covers community interactions, hallway conversations about Cilium and Tetragon in production, and notable talks on k0s, VictoriaLogs, supply chain security, and sustainable cloud native infrastructure.

Cilium at Cloud Native Days France 2026

An opening keynote that set the bar very high

More great sessions (and too many to see all)