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About
Terway is ranked #8 of 25 in container networking software on Inferse. It runs on Linux, Self-hosted. There is a free plan.
Compared on container networking software
- Free plan
- Yesgithub.com
- CNI plugin
- Yesgithub.com
- Network policies
- Yesgithub.com
- Egress control
- Yesgithub.com
- Multi-cluster networking
- Yesgithub.com
- Supported platforms
- Kubernetes ACK, Alibaba Cloud VPC/ENI, Alibaba Cloud Linux 3/4, ContainerOS, Ubuntugithub.com
Facts
- Product
- Terway is a CNI plugin for Alibaba Cloud Kubernetes (ACK), built on Alibaba Cloud ENI technology.github.com · 3 Oct 2026
- Pod networking
- Each Pod has its own network stack and IP address; Pods on the same ECS instance communicate directly, while cross-ECS Pod traffic travels through VPC ENIs without VxLAN encapsulation.github.com · 3 Oct 2026
- ENI mode
- ENI network mode allocates ENIs to Pods to optimize resource use and network performance.github.com · 3 Oct 2026
- Trunking
- Trunking allows Pods to have independent ENIs for flexible security group and switch configurations.github.com · 3 Oct 2026
- Node pools
- Terway supports configuring node pools for exclusive ENI usage.github.com · 3 Oct 2026
- Network security
- Terway supports Kubernetes NetworkPolicy and traditional security groups for multi-dimensional network access control.github.com · 3 Oct 2026
- Performance
- Terway uses eBPF for protocol stack acceleration and describes the result as low latency and high throughput.github.com · 3 Oct 2026
- IP support
- Terway supports dual-stack IPv4 and IPv6.github.com · 3 Oct 2026
- Self-hosted limitation
- The README says ACK-provided versions match the open-source version except that Trunking is unavailable in self-hosted clusters.github.com · 3 Oct 2026
- Deprecated modes
- The README marks VPC Network Mode and Exclusive ENI Mode as deprecated.github.com · 3 Oct 2026
- Security reporting
- The project asks users to report code vulnerabilities to [email protected] and refers to SECURITY.md for details.github.com · 3 Oct 2026
- Community support
- The README invites bug fixes, feature work, documentation improvements, and code contributions, and lists a DingTalk group ID of 35924643.github.com · 3 Oct 2026
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Sources
- github.com/AliyunContainerService/terway· checked 3 Oct 2026

