Open Source at Cisco

Explore community-powered innovation in cloud native development, AI/ML, API security, observability, network automation, and more, with contributions from Cisco developers.

Featured projects

An umbrella project that provides various tools for Vault to make using Hashicorp Vault easier, including a wrapper for the official Vault client.

Integration of VPP, a fast userspace networking stack, as a dataplane for Calico.

An open source antivirus engine for detecting trojans, viruses, malware & other malicious threats.

Relentlessly focused on data IO speed and efficiency for more flexible and scalable networks and storage.

It is an open source intrusion prevention system capable of real-time traffic analysis and packet logging.

TRex is an open source, low cost, stateful and stateless traffic generator fuelled by DPDK.

Where we contribute

Kubernetes
OpenTelemetry
OpenSSF Scorecard

Cisco proudly sponsors

Bytecode Alliance
Cloud Native Computing Foundation
LF Networking
Linux Foundation
Open Source Initiative
Open19
OpenAPI Initiative
OpenSSF
TODO Group
Yocto Project
OpenChain Project
Internet Security Research Group (ISRG)
SONiC Foundation
OpenInfra Foundation

Welcome to Open Source at Cisco!

Check out our favorite projects from the open source community. Cisco developers contribute to these initiatives, and we use these projects in our platforms and solutions. Stay tuned for more... we're excited to collaborate with you further!

John Parello

Principal Engineer

Head of Open Source, DevNet AI Strategy, Cisco

Welcome to Open Source at Cisco!