Cilium Networking Concepts: Routing and IPAM

Cilium is becoming the standard for modern Kubernetes networking, and understanding Routing and IP Address Management (IPAM) is critical for running production-grade clusters on AWS EKS. In this video, we explain Cilium Networking Concepts in a simple and practical way — covering routing fundamentals, overlay routing, native routing, and a complete breakdown of Cilium IPAM modes, including AWS ENI IPAM. 🔍 What this video covers: ✅ 00:00 - Introduction ✅ 00:11 - Agenda ✅ 00:34 - Recap of Cilium Chaining mode on AWS EKS ✅ 01:40 - Session Roadmap: Routing and IPAM ✅ 02:14 - How routing works in Kubernetes ✅ 03:21 - Types of Routing modes in Cilium ✅ 03:38 - Overlay mode (Tunneling) ✅ 04:43 - Native Routing ✅ 07:05 - AWS ENI Datapath explained ✅ 09:33 - IP Address Management (IPAM) in Cilium and its types ✅ 10:02 - Cluster Pool IPAM ✅ 12:07 - AWS ENI IPAM ✅ 15:47 - Other IPAMs This session is ideal for DevOps engineers, Platform teams, SREs, and Cloud architects working with Kubernetes at scale. IMESH provides enterprise-grade Cilium support, consulting, and observability for AWS EKS and cloud-native platforms. 👉 Explore Cilium Enterprise Support 🔗https://imesh.ai/request-for-enterpri... 👉 Talk to an Expert / Request a Demo 🔗https://imesh.ai/contact-us.html 📌 What’s coming next: ➡️ Cilium Standalone on AWS EKS (ENI IPAM /Native Routing) ➡️ Cilium Standalone on AWS EKS (ClusterPool IPAM / Overlay Routing) If this video helped you, like, share, and subscribe to stay updated with upcoming Cilium and Kubernetes deep dives. The image used in the 'Native Routing' slide is from Cilium documentation. #Cilium #CiliumNetworking #Kubernetes #AWSEKS #KubernetesNetworking #CiliumIPAM #DevOps #CloudNative #EBPF #PlatformEngineering #SRE #KubernetesTutorial