Cilium Standalone DNS Proxy is an alpha component that provides independent DNS proxying capabilities, receiving policy rules from the Cilium agent via gRPC.
The Cilium Standalone DNS Proxy (standalone-dns-proxy) is an alpha component of the Cilium
networking project that provides independent DNS proxying capabilities. It runs as a separate DaemonSet, receives DNS
policy rules from the Cilium agent via gRPC, and reports DNS query results back for policy enforcement — offloading DNS
proxy work from the main Cilium agent process.
Note: The standalone DNS proxy binary was introduced as a separate component in Cilium v1.19. This image is supported from v1.19 and later.
For more details, visit https://docs.cilium.io/en/stable/security/standalone-dns-proxy/.