What’s New in Calico: Spring 2025

Introducing Calico Cloud Free Tier Why Calico Cloud Free Tier? How Calico Cloud Free Tier Enhances Calico Open Source Improved Accuracy and Encryption for Commercial Editions Improved accuracy of Calico policy reporting in flow logs WireGuard: Provide support for encryption between federated endpoints and services in different clusters Summary Calico provides a unified platform for all your Kubernetes networking, network security, and observability requirements. From ingress/egress management and east-west policy enforcement to multi-cluster connectivity, Calico delivers comprehensive capabilities. It is distribution-agnostic, preventing vendor lock-in and offering a consistent experience across popular Kubernetes distributions and managed services. Calico eliminates silos, providing seamless networking and observability for containers, VMs, and bare metal servers, and extends effortlessly to multi-cluster environments, in the cloud, on-premises, and at the edge. With the recent release of Calico Open Source 3.30 , we added: Improved observability to visualize and troubleshoot workload communication with Calico Whisker and the Goldmane API. Kubernetes Network Policies are critical for preventing ransomware, achieving microsegmentation to isolate sensitive assets for compliance, and thwarting attacks from malicious actors. However, implementing them effectively can be challenging due to the complexity of identifying, testing, and rapidly updating policies to meet evolving threats. Calico Open Source 3.30 introduces staged policies to enable teams to audit and validate policies before they are enforced, reducing the risk of misconfigured policies and improving security and compliance. The ability to manage Kubernetes ingress traffic with Calico Ingress Gateway, a 100% upstream, enterprise-ready implementation of the Kubernetes Gateway API. And to expand on our robust Calico Open Source 3.30 offering, we’re excited to introduce Calico Cloud Free Tier. This new product edition further expands our open source offerings by providing enhanced observability and policy management capabilities to help visualize and troubleshoot workload communication, and simplify network security enforcement and microsegmentation. Already using Calico Open Source 3.30 or higher? Get started in less than five minutes.