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? Try exploring Calico Documentation with our new AI bot. Look for the Ask AI button at the bottom of your screen. ? Tigera home Project Calico Compare products Pricing Blog Events Contact us Documentation Calico Open Source Calico Cloud Calico Enterprise Tutorials Certification Try Calico Cloud Use cases Microsegmentation Observability Search Calico Documentation Active, zero-trust based security for containers and Kubernetes Select a doc set Calico Open Source Calico Enterprise Calico Cloud About Tigera products Calico Open Source A free, self-managed networking and security solution for containers, virtual machines, and native host-based workloads. Provides networking, network policy, and IP address management capabilities for cloud-native applications. Visit the documentation Calico Enterprise A paid, self-managed security and observability solution for containers and Kubernetes. Extends Calico Open Source’s networking and network security capabilities to offer more advanced security and observability capabilities for organizations running Kubernetes at scale. Visit the documentation Calico Cloud A pay-as-you-go, SaaS application that provides comprehensive container security across the entire container lifecycle (build, deploy, runtime). A fully-managed version of Calico Enterprise that adds container image scanning and advanced threat detection capabilities. Visit the documentation Best fit Calico Open Source Free, self-managed Users - Who want best-in-class networking and network policy capabilities. Calico Enterprise Paid, self-managed Enterprise teams - Who need full control to customize their networking security deployment to meet regulatory and compliance requirements for Kubernetes at scale. - Who want Tigera Customer Support for day-zero to production best practices custom training and workshops, and Solution Architects to customize solutions. Calico Cloud Pay-as-you-go, SaaS Small teams - Who need to manage the full spectrum of compliance in a web-based console for novice users: - Secure clusters, pods, and applications - Scan images for vulnerabilities - Web-based UI for visibility to troubleshoot Kubernetes - Detect and mitigate threats - Run compliance reports Enterprise teams - Who want to scale their Calico Enterprise on-premises deployments by providing more self-service to developers. Product comparison by feature Networking Calico Open Source Calico Enterprise Calico Cloud High-performance, scalable pod networking Advanced IP address management Direct infrastructure peering without the overlay Dual ToR peering Egress gateway Multiple Calico networks on a pod Apps, pods, clusters Calico Open Source Calico Enterprise Calico Cloud Seamless support with Kubernetes network policy Label-based (identity-aware) policy Namespace and cluster-wide scope Global default deny policy design Application layer policy Policy for services Web UI Onboarding tutorials and lab cluster DNS/FQDN-based policy Hierarchical tiered network policy Policy recommendations Preview and staged network policy Policy integration for third-party firewalls Network sets to limit IP ranges for egress and ingress traffic to workloads Data Calico Open Source Calico Enterprise Calico Cloud Data-in-transit encryption for pod traffic using WireGuard SIEM integration Non-cluster hosts Calico Open Source Calico Enterprise Calico Cloud Restrict traffic to/from hosts using network policy Automatic host endpoints Secure Kubernetes nodes with host endpoints managed by Calico Apply policy to host-forwarded traffic Dataplane Calico Open Source Calico Enterprise Calico Cloud eBPF iptables Windows HNS VPP Images Calico Open Source Calico Enterprise Calico Cloud Scan images for vulnerabilities Create policy to block vulnerable images from your clusters Observability and troubleshooting Calico Open Source Calico Enterprise Calico Cloud Application-level observability and troubleshooting Service Graph Elasticsearch logs (flow, l7, audit, bgp, dns, events) Alerts Kibana DNS dashboards Traffic Flow Visualizer Multi-cluster management Calico Open Source Calico Enterprise Calico Cloud Federated identity and services Threat defense Calico Open Source Calico Enterprise Calico Cloud Container threat detection Workload-centric Web Application Firewall (WAF) Honeypods to view intruder activity Add threatfeeds to trace suspicious network flows Reports Calico Open Source Calico Enterprise Calico Cloud Compliance reports CIS benchmark reports Monitor Calico components Calico Open Source Calico Enterprise Calico Cloud Prometheus Learn Documentation Events Resource center Blog Trade shows Certification Guides Support Customer success Support portal Security bulletins Report a security issue Open source Project Calico Community GitHub Stack Overflow Slack Company About Customers Partners Newsroom Careers Contact Copyright © 2024 Tigera, Inc. Tigera is the creator and maintainer of Project Calico. Privacy Center | Do not sell or share my personal...