Cilium
Medium
Architecture
Which component of Cilium is responsible for distributing security identities across the cluster?
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Answer: kvstore
Explanation
Cilium uses a key-value store (kvstore) to distribute security identities and other cluster-wide information across all nodes. This can be etcd or Kubernetes CRDs, depending on the configuration. The kvstore ensures that all Cilium agents have a consistent view of identities, which is crucial for policy enforcement.
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