You are right that cilium is a CNI but one of its many features is also providing a sidecar-less service mesh using eBPF. https://cilium.io/use-cases/service-m

You are right that cilium is a CNI but one of its many features is also providing a sidecar-less service mesh using eBPF. https://cilium.io/use-cases/service-mesh/ https://cilium.io/use-cases/service-mesh/