Cilium
Medium
Networking
Which of the following is a unique capability of Cilium compared to traditional CNI plugins?
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Answer: Application protocol awareness (L7 policies)
Explanation
While most CNI plugins provide basic connectivity, service support, and IP management, Cilium's ability to understand and filter traffic based on application protocols (L7) is a distinguishing feature. This allows for more fine-grained security policies based on HTTP methods, paths, DNS queries, and other application-layer attributes.
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