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Getting Started with Cilium on EKS: Visibility, Security, and Performance Made Simple

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Cilium is changing how teams secure and scale Kubernetes networking — and for good reason. With eBPF-powered visibility, identity-based policies, and built-in observability via Hubble, it’s a big step up from default CNIs.

This guide walks you through deploying Cilium on AWS EKS with Terraform and Helm, following AWS Auto Mode best practices.

What’s inside:

  • Step-by-step deployment with Terraform and Helm

  • IAM and networking setup for production

  • Troubleshooting and performance tuning tips

  • How Cilium enables Zero Trust networking in Kubernetes

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