Skip to content

[Feature] Cilium mTLS Encryption #5724

@JosephYostos

Description

@JosephYostos

GA ETA: Q4 2026

*ETAs are estimations and are subject to change

Cilium mTLS encryption provides transparent, mutual TLS (mTLS) encryption and authentication for pod-to-pod traffic in AKS without requiring application changes or introducing any extra networking stack.

🧩 Feature Overview
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/aks/container-network-security-cilium-mutual-tls-concepts

📘 How-To Guide
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/aks/container-network-security-cilium-mutual-tls-how-to

Metadata

Metadata

Assignees

Projects

Status

Public Preview (Shipped & Improving)

Milestone

No milestone

Relationships

None yet

Development

No branches or pull requests

Issue actions