Cilium adds hybrid routing mode
Introduced 2026-07-14 · score 0.93
HOW TO USE IT
When configuring Cilium for directly connected and cross-subnet pod traffic, set `routing-mode: hybrid` to select native routing for directly connected subnets and tunneling across subnets, as stated in the v0.19.6 release note.
WHY THIS HELPS
Configure Cilium routing for pods in directly connected and cross-subnet topologies.
REQUIREMENTS AND LIMITATIONS
- Version: v0.19.6
- routing-mode (required): The release note names `hybrid` as the routing-mode value. The current Helm values docs list only empty, `native`, and `tunnel`; they do not document `hybrid`.
- routingMode (required): Helm value documented to enable native-routing or tunneling mode; allowed values are empty, `native`, and `tunnel`.
- Docs conflict: Current Cilium 1.20.3 Helm values docs do not list `hybrid` as an allowed `routingMode` value; current routing docs describe native routing and encapsulation, without hybrid. The v1.20.0-rc.1 release discussion says hybrid routing support was reverted.
- Docs conflict: No complete runnable `cilium` CLI invocation using `routing-mode: hybrid` found in official documentation at or after v0.19.6.
FIRST-PARTY EVIDENCE
- https://github.com/cilium/cilium-cli/releases/tag/v0.19.6
- https://docs.cilium.io/en/stable/helm-values/
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