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Glossary

Cilium has some terms with special meanings. These should all be covered throughout the documentation but for convenience we have also listed some of them below with short descriptions. If you need more information, please ask us on Cilium Slack_. Feel free to extend this document with words you expected to see here.

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Endpoint :ref:endpoint

Policy A Cilium policy consists of a list of rules. The security policy can be specified in The Kubernetes NetworkPolicy format or The Cilium policy language.

iproute2 https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/net/iproute2/

llvm https://releases.llvm.org/

Linux kernel https://www.kernel.org/

DaemonSet https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/workloads/controllers/daemonset/

ConfigMap https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/configure-pod-container/configure-pod-configmap/

CNI https://github.com/containernetworking/cni

RBAC https://kubernetes.io/docs/reference/access-authn-authz/rbac/

NodeSelector https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/scheduling-eviction/assign-pod-node/#nodeselector

Volumes https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/configure-pod-container/configure-volume-storage/

VXLAN https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7348

Geneve https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc8926

Pod https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/workloads/pods/pod/

Service https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/services-networking/service/

CustomResourceDefinition https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/extend-kubernetes/api-extension/custom-resources/#customresourcedefinitions

HeadlessServices https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/services-networking/service/#headless-services

Helm https://helm.sh/