Canal is a community-driven initiative that aims to allow users to easily deploy Calico and flannel networking together as a unified networking solution - combining Calico’s industry-leading network policy enforcement with the rich superset of Calico and flannel overlay and non-overlay network connectivity options. Canal represents the best-of-breed policy-based networking solution for cloud native applications, supporting any orchestrator that support the CNI network plugin API (including Kubernetes, Mesos, and others).