Skip to Content
Cilium: Up and Running
book

Cilium: Up and Running

by Nico Vibert, Filip Nikolic, James Laverack
February 2026
Intermediate to advanced
372 pages
9h 2m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Content preview from Cilium: Up and Running

About the Authors

Nico Vibert is a senior staff technical marketing engineer at Isovalent, the company behind the open source cloud native networking and security platform Cilium. Nico was the Subject Matter Lead for the Cilium Certified Associate (CCA) certification, which helped define and validate the foundational skills required to operate Cilium in production.

Prior to Isovalent, Nico held a range of technical roles spanning operations and support, design and architecture, and technical presales at companies including HashiCorp, VMware, and Cisco. He is a former Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert (CCIE #22990), one of the industry’s most rigorous networking certifications.

Nico regularly speaks at industry events, from large conferences such as KubeCon and Cisco Live to smaller community forums including VMware and AWS User Groups.

Filip Nikolic is a solutions architect at Isovalent, the creators of eBPF and Cilium. With years of hands-on experience across a variety of Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) projects, Filip is not only a seasoned engineer but also a passionate advocate for open source innovation.

James Laverack is a software engineer and technical speaker with over a decade of industry experience specializing in cloud native software, distributed systems, and networking. Currently, James is a principal customer success architect for Isovalent at Cisco, and he has previously worked as a Kubernetes consultant and software engineer across a range of industries. ...

Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
and much more.

Read now

Unlock full access

More than 5,000 organizations count on O’Reilly

AirBnbBlueOriginElectronic ArtsHomeDepotNasdaqRakutenTata Consultancy Services

QuotationMarkO’Reilly covers everything we've got, with content to help us build a world-class technology community, upgrade the capabilities and competencies of our teams, and improve overall team performance as well as their engagement.
Julian F.
Head of Cybersecurity
QuotationMarkI wanted to learn C and C++, but it didn't click for me until I picked up an O'Reilly book. When I went on the O’Reilly platform, I was astonished to find all the books there, plus live events and sandboxes so you could play around with the technology.
Addison B.
Field Engineer
QuotationMarkI’ve been on the O’Reilly platform for more than eight years. I use a couple of learning platforms, but I'm on O'Reilly more than anybody else. When you're there, you start learning. I'm never disappointed.
Amir M.
Data Platform Tech Lead
QuotationMarkI'm always learning. So when I got on to O'Reilly, I was like a kid in a candy store. There are playlists. There are answers. There's on-demand training. It's worth its weight in gold, in terms of what it allows me to do.
Mark W.
Embedded Software Engineer

You might also like

gRPC: Up and Running

gRPC: Up and Running

Kasun Indrasiri, Danesh Kuruppu
Istio in Action

Istio in Action

Christian E. Posta, Rinor Maloku
Microservices Patterns

Microservices Patterns

Chris Richardson

Publisher Resources

ISBN: 9798341622982Errata Page