Calico is an open source networking and network security solution for containers, virtual machines, and native host-based workloads.
Stuff you wanna know:
- Calico supports Kubernetes, OpenShift, Mirantis Kubernetes Engine (MKE), OpenStack, and bare metal services.
- Calico dataplane choices include a pure Linux eBPF dataplane, a standard Linux networking dataplane, and a Windows HNS dataplane.
- Calico’s network policy engine formed the original reference implementation of Kubernetes network policy during the development of the API.
- The inventors of Calico Open Source are a company called Tigera.
More stuff:
- Project Calico documentation — https://projectcalico.docs.tigera.io/about/about-calico
- On Github — https://github.com/projectcalico/calico
- Project Calico community — https://www.tigera.io/project-calico/community/
