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Add support for Cilium Bandwidth Manager and BBR#18566

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This adds support for enabling Cilium's Bandwidth Manager and BBR congestion control directly from the kOps Cilium networking spec.

Two new fields are added to spec.networking.cilium:

  • enableBandwidthManager – enables Cilium's eBPF-based Bandwidth Manager, which honors the kubernetes.io/egress-bandwidth Pod annotation and provides EDT-based egress rate-limiting.
  • enableBBR – enables BBR (Bottleneck Bandwidth and Round-trip propagation time) as the TCP congestion control algorithm for pod traffic. Requires enableBandwidthManager and a node kernel >= 5.18. kOps also configures the node sysctls (net.core.default_qdisc=fq, net.ipv4.tcp_congestion_control=bbr).

Validation rejects enableBBR without enableBandwidthManager. The fields are plumbed through all API versions (internal, v1alpha2, v1alpha3) with regenerated conversion/deepcopy code, wired into the Cilium addon template and nodeup sysctls, and documented in docs/networking/cilium.md.

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Added `spec.networking.cilium.enableBandwidthManager` and `spec.networking.cilium.enableBBR` to enable Cilium's Bandwidth Manager and BBR congestion control.

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kubernetes-prow Bot requested a review from olemarkus July 9, 2026 14:37
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nuved force-pushed the cilium-bbr-support branch from ad71ee5 to ff0f66d Compare July 9, 2026 14:53
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