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Tigera announced upgrades to Calico Open Source and Calico Cloud centered around the security, performance, and scalability of Kubernetes deployments for enterprises.

- Maximizing Container Security with Security Score and Recommended Actions: Calico Cloud now provides a Security Score and Recommended Actions for cloud-native applications. This gives administrators a quantified, at-a-glance view of their organization's security posture by monitoring historical trends, risks by namespace, and more. The feature also provides actionable recommendations tailored to each workload, strengthening the security of individual workloads and the entire cluster.

- Streamlined Operations with Windows HostProcess Container: The Calico Open Source Windows HostProcess Container feature addresses operational challenges by enabling automated node pool scaling and upgrades, eliminating the need for manual node initialization. This empowers Kubernetes administrators to streamline operations and focus on the management of Windows container-based applications. Tigera is the first to provide native support for Windows HostProcess Containers, simplifying Kubernetes management for enterprises.

- Performance and Scalability with IPv6 Support for Calico eBPF Dataplane: Calico provides IPv6 support for the eBPF dataplane. IPv6 and eBPF alleviate IP shortages and enhance performance, ensuring that latency-sensitive applications perform optimally. Calico's IPv6 support on the eBPF dataplane ensures scalable, high-performance networking and security to address the demands of modern applications across diverse cloud and distributed environments.

- Enabling Multi-Cluster Deployments with Cluster Mesh on VxLAN: Multi-cluster Kubernetes deployments over VxLAN are on the rise, driving the need for enhanced application layer observability and security. However, current manual approaches lack scalability. Calico meets this demand with Kubernetes Cluster Mesh for VxLAN, providing a scalable solution for workload communication and security policy enforcement across Kubernetes clusters over VxLAN. As large and leading-edge enterprises accelerate deployments to enhance their services at scale, they have encountered management challenges that can put their environments at risk. Calico provides an operationally simple solution to create a Kubernetes cluster mesh to ensure enterprise infrastructure can run multi-cluster environments efficiently, securely, and compliantly – no matter the complexity. Calico provides a centralized multi-cluster management plane to enable security, observability, and networking management across multiple clusters in hybrid and multi-cloud environments. Calico brings the same capabilities expected from single cluster environments to those with multiple clusters, enabling Calico to scale to any enterprise's needs.

"Calico is the most widely adopted technology for container networking and security. With capabilities like IPV6 support in Calico eBPF and Calico cluster mesh on VxLAN, we are enabling organizations to run their Kubernetes deployments at unparalleled scale. The new security risk scorecard, prioritization and remediation provide container security teams with a nuanced view of risks and things they need to address," said Amit Gupta, Chief Product Officer, Tigera. "With these latest enhancements to Calico, we're delivering the industry's most complete solution for securing and observing Kubernetes environments."