rancher-docs/shared-files/_cni-popularity.md

The following table summarizes different GitHub metrics to give you an idea of each project's popularity and activity levels. This data was collected in March 2025.

Provider	Project	Stars	Forks	Contributors
Canal	https://github.com/projectcalico/canal	720	100	20
Flannel	https://github.com/flannel-io/flannel	9k	2.9k	237
Calico	https://github.com/projectcalico/calico	6.3k	1.4k	373
Weave	https://github.com/weaveworks/weave	6.6k	679	84
Cilium	https://github.com/cilium/cilium	21.2k	3.1k	909