projectcalico/calico
Cloud native networking and network security
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Where it stands
Rank, growth pace and release cadence relative to everything GStars tracks.
4 releases in the last 90 days, the latest 10 days ago, with 282 contributors on GitHub.
Peaked at #76 in the weekly ranking the week of Oct 26, its best in the past year.
Use Cases & Benefits
- Provides cloud native networking and network security solutions for Kubernetes and other environments.
- Offers versatile data plane options including eBPF, Linux, Windows, and VPP for optimized performance and scalability.
- Use for implementing scalable and high-performance Kubernetes network policies with advanced security features.
- Use for securing multi-cloud, bare metal, and VM environments with identity-aware network policies and WireGuard encryption.
- Use for integrating flexible networking tools like BGP, VXLAN, and service advertisement in complex containerized infrastructures.
Should you depend on it?
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License
Apache 2.0
Permissive: commercial use, modification and redistribution are allowed with attribution; includes an explicit patent grant from contributors.
Community files
- README: present
- Contributing guide: present
Watch-outs
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From the README
Project Calico, created and maintained by Tigera, is an open-source project with an active development and user community. Calico Open Source has grown to be the most widely adopted solution for container networking and security, powering 8M+ nodes daily across 166 countries.
Daily snapshots
Stars gained per day, and how forks and open issues moved, from GStars' daily snapshots
Forks
1.6K+24
Open issues
299+41
Compared with peers in Kubernetes
Fastest-growing repositories GStars tracks in this cohort for the week of Nov 8, by 7-day star growth
| Repository | Stars | +7d | Health | Last release |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| superplanehq/superplane | 9.8K | +1.0K | 75 | 13 days ago |
| kubernetes/kubernetes | 129.0K | +344 | 75 | 4 days ago |
| etcd-io/etcd | 52.7K | +287 | 75 | 19 days ago |
| aquasecurity/trivy | 39.2K | +240 | 75 | 5 days ago |
| agentgateway/agentgateway | 6.1K | +187 | 75 | 14 days ago |
| projectcalico/calico | 7.4K | — | 59 | 10 days ago |
| Category median | 39.2K | +287 | 75 | — |
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