I’m using managed kubernetes. Doing ‘kubectl top pods –all-namespaces’ showed me that the cilium pods are taking significant amount of CPU. I did not install the cilium pods. They came with the managed cluster.

kube-system cilium-ct96b 54m 150Mi

kube-system cilium-fw9xd 172m 204Mi

kube-system cilium-jsldl 57m 167Mi

kube-system cilium-n2xbl 53m 151Mi

My questions are:

1. What do the cilium pods do?
2. Is it required for managed kubernetes? Can I remove them? How do I remove them?