CAP_NET_ADMIN and either CAP_SYS_ADMIN or CAP_BPF capabilities are needed for Cilium datapath integration.
Envoy proxy with cilium plugins (lockstep with cilium-1.20)
From cilium-1.20-envoy 1.20.4-r4 (enterprise-packages), captured 2026-11-08 by running cilium-envoy-starter --help (exit 1) · terse output. permalink
CAP_NET_ADMIN and either CAP_SYS_ADMIN or CAP_BPF capabilities are needed for Cilium datapath integration.