Isovalent Cilium on EKS: Advanced Kubernetes Networking | Udemy Coupons 2025

Unlock the full potential of Kubernetes networking, observability, and security by deploying Cilium on Amazon EKS using the Bring Your Own CNI (BYOCNI) approach. This advanced, hands-on course—developed in collaboration with Isovalent—guides you through replacing AWS’s default networking stack with Cilium, a high-performance, eBPF-powered platform.

You’ll learn to create EKS clusters without the default VPC CNI and kube-proxy, and instead deploy Cilium to take full control of networking. Dive deep into the Isovalent Cilium Enterprise feature set, including L7-aware network policies, real-time observability via Hubble, multi-cluster mesh, and runtime security with Tetragon.

Through engaging scenarios—including a Star Wars-themed architecture challenge—you’ll configure Egress Gateways, secure inter-service communication with mutual TLS, and enable sidecar-free service mesh across multi-cloud environments.

By the end of the course, you’ll have the expertise to build production-grade Kubernetes environments with advanced control, security, and performance.

You will walk away knowing how to:

• Deploy Cilium as a custom CNI on EKS clusters
• Replace kube-proxy with eBPF-powered data paths
• Implement and troubleshoot L3–L7 network policies
• Use Hubble for real-time traffic observability
• Secure clusters using encryption and Tetragon runtime policies
• Operate service mesh features without sidecars

This course is ideal for experienced cloud professionals looking to master modern, enterprise-grade Kubernetes networking and observability using Cilium.