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🐾 Welcome to Project Calico!
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.
🌟 Why use Calico?
- Data Plane Choice: eBPF, standard Linux, Windows, and VPP — versatility in network solutions.
- Interoperability: Works across multiple distros, multiple clouds, bare metal, and VMs.
- Optimized Performance: Engineered for high speed and low CPU usage, maximizing your cluster investments.
- Scalable Architecture: Grows seamlessly with your Kubernetes clusters without sacrificing performance.
- Advanced Security: Get granular access controls and WireGuard encryption.
- Kubernetes Networking Policy Support: Continually defining excellence in Kubernetes network policy standards and support.
- Vibrant Contributor Community: Over 200 contributors from a wide array of global companies.
- Flexible networking: An array of networking tools at your disposal, including BGP, VXLAN, service advertisement, and more.
🤝 Join the Calico Community
- Calico Big Cats: Become an ambassador and share your journey
- Community Meetings: Engage and contribute
- Contribute on GitHub: Start with 'good first issues'
- Connect on Slack: Join the conversation with fellow contributors and our developers
💡 Contributing to Project Calico
- Get Started with Project Calico
- Repositories
- Contribute to our docs
- Documentation: Dive into our training and resources
- Make Calico better
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📢 Stay Connected
- Subscribe: Join our newsletter
- YouTube channel for updates & tutorials
- Technical Blog
- Careers: Passionate about open source? Join our team.