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Scalable, high-performance networking and security for cloud-native workloads
Calico delivers fast, low-CPU container networking and granular security across Kubernetes, VMs, bare metal, and Windows, supporting eBPF, BGP, VXLAN, and WireGuard for global scale.

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Multi‑cloud Kubernetes networking
Unified pod communication across AWS, GCP, and on‑prem with consistent policies
Secure pod‑to‑pod traffic
Identity‑aware policies enforced with optional WireGuard encryption
High‑performance data plane
eBPF deployment reduces node CPU consumption while increasing throughput
Hybrid workloads integration
Seamless networking and security for containers, VMs, and Windows nodes
Calico offers eBPF, standard Linux, Windows, and VPP data planes.
Yes, it includes granular network policies and optional WireGuard encryption.
It works across multiple distros, public clouds, bare metal, and virtual machines.
The core project is primarily written in Go.
Calico is open source under the Apache‑2.0 license.
Project at a glance
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