Overview

Tigera provides an open-core enterprise platform for secure application connectivity in cloud-native environments, built on the open-source Calico project. Calico is a unified Kubernetes networking, security, and observability solution that runs across major cloud providers and distributions, using a high-performance eBPF data plane and gateways to manage traffic between containers and traditional workloads. It differentiates itself by offering enterprise editions (Calico Enterprise and Calico Cloud) that add full-stack observability, runtime security, and CNAPP capabilities beyond the OSS, with a strong open-source heritage. Its goal is to help organizations securely connect, monitor, and protect cloud-native apps across multi-cloud and multi-cluster environments.