# 02 | CNI = Flannel

### It is not recommended to use flannel, and instead should use 02-cni-cilium.   Do not install both flannel and cilium.

[https://github.com/flannel-io/flannel](https://github.com/flannel-io/flannel)

Flannel provides the pod to pod networking, using [VXLAN](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_Extensible_LAN).

```bash
kubectl apply -f https://github.com/flannel-io/flannel/releases/latest/download/kube-flannel.yml

```