Chapter 23. OVN-Kubernetes default CNI network provider
23.1. About the OVN-Kubernetes default Container Network Interface (CNI) network provider
The OpenShift Container Platform cluster uses a virtualized network for pod and service networks. The OVN-Kubernetes Container Network Interface (CNI) plugin is a network provider for the default cluster network. OVN-Kubernetes is based on Open Virtual Network (OVN) and provides an overlay-based networking implementation. A cluster that uses the OVN-Kubernetes network provider also runs Open vSwitch (OVS) on each node. OVN configures OVS on each node to implement the declared network configuration.
OVN-Kubernetes is the default networking solution for single-node OpenShift deployments only.
23.1.1. OVN-Kubernetes features
The OVN-Kubernetes Container Network Interface (CNI) cluster network provider implements the following features:
- Uses OVN (Open Virtual Network) to manage network traffic flows. OVN is a community developed, vendor-agnostic network virtualization solution.
- Implements Kubernetes network policy support, including ingress and egress rules.
- Uses the Geneve (Generic Network Virtualization Encapsulation) protocol rather than VXLAN to create an overlay network between nodes.
23.1.2. Supported default CNI network provider feature matrix
OpenShift Container Platform offers two supported choices, OpenShift SDN and OVN-Kubernetes, for the default Container Network Interface (CNI) network provider. The following table summarizes the current feature support for both network providers:
Feature | OVN-Kubernetes | OpenShift SDN |
---|---|---|
Egress IPs | Supported | Supported |
Egress firewall [1] | Supported | Supported |
Egress router | Supported [2] | Supported |
Hybrid networking | Supported | Not supported |
IPsec encryption for intra-cluster communication | Supported | Not supported |
IPv6 | Supported [3] [4] | Not supported |
Kubernetes network policy | Supported | Supported |
Kubernetes network policy logs | Supported | Not supported |
Hardware offloading | Supported | Not supported |
Multicast | Supported | Supported |
- Egress firewall is also known as egress network policy in OpenShift SDN. This is not the same as network policy egress.
- Egress router for OVN-Kubernetes supports only redirect mode.
- IPv6 is supported only on bare metal clusters.
- IPv6 single stack does not support Kubernetes NMState.
23.1.3. OVN-Kubernetes limitations
The OVN-Kubernetes Container Network Interface (CNI) cluster network provider has the following limitations:
-
The
sessionAffinityConfig.clientIP.timeoutSeconds
service has no effect in an OpenShift OVN environment, but does in an OpenShift SDN environment. This incompatibility can make it difficult for users to migrate from OpenShift SDN to OVN.
For clusters configured for dual-stack networking, both IPv4 and IPv6 traffic must use the same network interface as the default gateway. If this requirement is not met, pods on the host in the
ovnkube-node
daemon set enter theCrashLoopBackOff
state. If you display a pod with a command such asoc get pod -n openshift-ovn-kubernetes -l app=ovnkube-node -o yaml
, thestatus
field contains more than one message about the default gateway, as shown in the following output:I1006 16:09:50.985852 60651 helper_linux.go:73] Found default gateway interface br-ex 192.168.127.1 I1006 16:09:50.985923 60651 helper_linux.go:73] Found default gateway interface ens4 fe80::5054:ff:febe:bcd4 F1006 16:09:50.985939 60651 ovnkube.go:130] multiple gateway interfaces detected: br-ex ens4
The only resolution is to reconfigure the host networking so that both IP families use the same network interface for the default gateway.
For clusters configured for dual-stack networking, both the IPv4 and IPv6 routing tables must contain the default gateway. If this requirement is not met, pods on the host in the
ovnkube-node
daemon set enter theCrashLoopBackOff
state. If you display a pod with a command such asoc get pod -n openshift-ovn-kubernetes -l app=ovnkube-node -o yaml
, thestatus
field contains more than one message about the default gateway, as shown in the following output:I0512 19:07:17.589083 108432 helper_linux.go:74] Found default gateway interface br-ex 192.168.123.1 F0512 19:07:17.589141 108432 ovnkube.go:133] failed to get default gateway interface
The only resolution is to reconfigure the host networking so that both IP families contain the default gateway.
23.2. Migrating from the OpenShift SDN cluster network provider
As a cluster administrator, you can migrate to the OVN-Kubernetes Container Network Interface (CNI) cluster network provider from the OpenShift SDN CNI cluster network provider.
To learn more about OVN-Kubernetes, read About the OVN-Kubernetes network provider.
23.2.1. Migration to the OVN-Kubernetes network provider
Migrating to the OVN-Kubernetes Container Network Interface (CNI) cluster network provider is a manual process that includes some downtime during which your cluster is unreachable. Although a rollback procedure is provided, the migration is intended to be a one-way process.
A migration to the OVN-Kubernetes cluster network provider is supported on the following platforms:
- Bare metal hardware
- Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
- Microsoft Azure
- Red Hat OpenStack Platform (RHOSP)
- Red Hat Virtualization (RHV)
- VMware vSphere
Migrating to or from the OVN-Kubernetes network plugin is not supported for managed OpenShift cloud services such as Red Hat OpenShift Dedicated, Azure Red Hat OpenShift(ARO), and Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS (ROSA).
Migrating from OpenShift SDN network plugin to OVN-Kubernetes network plugin is not supported on Nutanix.
23.2.1.1. Considerations for migrating to the OVN-Kubernetes network provider
If you have more than 150 nodes in your OpenShift Container Platform cluster, then open a support case for consultation on your migration to the OVN-Kubernetes network plugin.
The subnets assigned to nodes and the IP addresses assigned to individual pods are not preserved during the migration.
While the OVN-Kubernetes network provider implements many of the capabilities present in the OpenShift SDN network provider, the configuration is not the same.
If your cluster uses any of the following OpenShift SDN capabilities, you must manually configure the same capability in OVN-Kubernetes:
- Namespace isolation
- Egress IP addresses
- Egress network policies
- Egress router pods
- Multicast
-
If your cluster uses any part of the
100.64.0.0/16
IP address range, you cannot migrate to OVN-Kubernetes because it uses this IP address range internally.
The following sections highlight the differences in configuration between the aforementioned capabilities in OVN-Kubernetes and OpenShift SDN.
Namespace isolation
OVN-Kubernetes supports only the network policy isolation mode.
If your cluster uses OpenShift SDN configured in either the multitenant or subnet isolation modes, you cannot migrate to the OVN-Kubernetes network provider.
Egress IP addresses
The differences in configuring an egress IP address between OVN-Kubernetes and OpenShift SDN is described in the following table:
OVN-Kubernetes | OpenShift SDN |
---|---|
|
|
For more information on using egress IP addresses in OVN-Kubernetes, see "Configuring an egress IP address".
Egress network policies
The difference in configuring an egress network policy, also known as an egress firewall, between OVN-Kubernetes and OpenShift SDN is described in the following table:
OVN-Kubernetes | OpenShift SDN |
---|---|
|
|
For more information on using an egress firewall in OVN-Kubernetes, see "Configuring an egress firewall for a project".
Egress router pods
OVN-Kubernetes supports egress router pods in redirect mode. OVN-Kubernetes does not support egress router pods in HTTP proxy mode or DNS proxy mode.
When you deploy an egress router with the Cluster Network Operator, you cannot specify a node selector to control which node is used to host the egress router pod.
Multicast
The difference between enabling multicast traffic on OVN-Kubernetes and OpenShift SDN is described in the following table:
OVN-Kubernetes | OpenShift SDN |
---|---|
|
|
For more information on using multicast in OVN-Kubernetes, see "Enabling multicast for a project".
Network policies
OVN-Kubernetes fully supports the Kubernetes NetworkPolicy
API in the networking.k8s.io/v1
API group. No changes are necessary in your network policies when migrating from OpenShift SDN.
23.2.1.2. How the migration process works
The following table summarizes the migration process by segmenting between the user-initiated steps in the process and the actions that the migration performs in response.
User-initiated steps | Migration activity |
---|---|
Set the |
|
Update the |
|
Reboot each node in the cluster. |
|
If a rollback to OpenShift SDN is required, the following table describes the process.
User-initiated steps | Migration activity |
---|---|
Suspend the MCO to ensure that it does not interrupt the migration. | The MCO stops. |
Set the |
|
Update the |
|
Reboot each node in the cluster. |
|
Enable the MCO after all nodes in the cluster reboot. |
|
23.2.2. Migrating to the OVN-Kubernetes default CNI network provider
As a cluster administrator, you can change the default Container Network Interface (CNI) network provider for your cluster to OVN-Kubernetes. During the migration, you must reboot every node in your cluster.
While performing the migration, your cluster is unavailable and workloads might be interrupted. Perform the migration only when an interruption in service is acceptable.
Prerequisites
- A cluster configured with the OpenShift SDN CNI cluster network provider in the network policy isolation mode.
-
Install the OpenShift CLI (
oc
). -
Access to the cluster as a user with the
cluster-admin
role. - A recent backup of the etcd database is available.
- A reboot can be triggered manually for each node.
- The cluster is in a known good state, without any errors.
-
On all cloud platforms after updating software, a security group rule must be in place to allow UDP packets on port
6081
for all nodes.
Procedure
To backup the configuration for the cluster network, enter the following command:
$ oc get Network.config.openshift.io cluster -o yaml > cluster-openshift-sdn.yaml
To prepare all the nodes for the migration, set the
migration
field on the Cluster Network Operator configuration object by entering the following command:$ oc patch Network.operator.openshift.io cluster --type='merge' \ --patch '{ "spec": { "migration": {"networkType": "OVNKubernetes" } } }'
NoteThis step does not deploy OVN-Kubernetes immediately. Instead, specifying the
migration
field triggers the Machine Config Operator (MCO) to apply new machine configs to all the nodes in the cluster in preparation for the OVN-Kubernetes deployment.Optional: You can customize the following settings for OVN-Kubernetes to meet your network infrastructure requirements:
Maximum transmission unit (MTU). Consider the following before customizing the MTU for this optional step:
- If you use the default MTU, and you want to keep the default MTU during migration, this step can be ignored.
- If you used a custom MTU, and you want to keep the custom MTU during migration, you must declare the custom MTU value in this step.
This step does not work if you want to change the MTU value during migration. Instead, you must first follow the instructions for "Changing the cluster MTU". You can then keep the custom MTU value by performing this procedure and declaring the custom MTU value in this step.
NoteOpenShift-SDN and OVN-Kubernetes have different overlay overhead. MTU values should be selected by following the guidelines found on the "MTU value selection" page.
- Geneve (Generic Network Virtualization Encapsulation) overlay network port
To customize either of the previously noted settings, enter and customize the following command. If you do not need to change the default value, omit the key from the patch.
$ oc patch Network.operator.openshift.io cluster --type=merge \ --patch '{ "spec":{ "defaultNetwork":{ "ovnKubernetesConfig":{ "mtu":<mtu>, "genevePort":<port> }}}}'
mtu
-
The MTU for the Geneve overlay network. This value is normally configured automatically, but if the nodes in your cluster do not all use the same MTU, then you must set this explicitly to
100
less than the smallest node MTU value. port
-
The UDP port for the Geneve overlay network. If a value is not specified, the default is
6081
. The port cannot be the same as the VXLAN port that is used by OpenShift SDN. The default value for the VXLAN port is4789
.
Example patch command to update
mtu
field$ oc patch Network.operator.openshift.io cluster --type=merge \ --patch '{ "spec":{ "defaultNetwork":{ "ovnKubernetesConfig":{ "mtu":1200 }}}}'
As the MCO updates machines in each machine config pool, it reboots each node one by one. You must wait until all the nodes are updated. Check the machine config pool status by entering the following command:
$ oc get mcp
A successfully updated node has the following status:
UPDATED=true
,UPDATING=false
,DEGRADED=false
.NoteBy default, the MCO updates one machine per pool at a time, causing the total time the migration takes to increase with the size of the cluster.
Confirm the status of the new machine configuration on the hosts:
To list the machine configuration state and the name of the applied machine configuration, enter the following command:
$ oc describe node | egrep "hostname|machineconfig"
Example output
kubernetes.io/hostname=master-0 machineconfiguration.openshift.io/currentConfig: rendered-master-c53e221d9d24e1c8bb6ee89dd3d8ad7b machineconfiguration.openshift.io/desiredConfig: rendered-master-c53e221d9d24e1c8bb6ee89dd3d8ad7b machineconfiguration.openshift.io/reason: machineconfiguration.openshift.io/state: Done
Verify that the following statements are true:
-
The value of
machineconfiguration.openshift.io/state
field isDone
. -
The value of the
machineconfiguration.openshift.io/currentConfig
field is equal to the value of themachineconfiguration.openshift.io/desiredConfig
field.
-
The value of
To confirm that the machine config is correct, enter the following command:
$ oc get machineconfig <config_name> -o yaml | grep ExecStart
where
<config_name>
is the name of the machine config from themachineconfiguration.openshift.io/currentConfig
field.The machine config must include the following update to the systemd configuration:
ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/configure-ovs.sh OVNKubernetes
If a node is stuck in the
NotReady
state, investigate the machine config daemon pod logs and resolve any errors.To list the pods, enter the following command:
$ oc get pod -n openshift-machine-config-operator
Example output
NAME READY STATUS RESTARTS AGE machine-config-controller-75f756f89d-sjp8b 1/1 Running 0 37m machine-config-daemon-5cf4b 2/2 Running 0 43h machine-config-daemon-7wzcd 2/2 Running 0 43h machine-config-daemon-fc946 2/2 Running 0 43h machine-config-daemon-g2v28 2/2 Running 0 43h machine-config-daemon-gcl4f 2/2 Running 0 43h machine-config-daemon-l5tnv 2/2 Running 0 43h machine-config-operator-79d9c55d5-hth92 1/1 Running 0 37m machine-config-server-bsc8h 1/1 Running 0 43h machine-config-server-hklrm 1/1 Running 0 43h machine-config-server-k9rtx 1/1 Running 0 43h
The names for the config daemon pods are in the following format:
machine-config-daemon-<seq>
. The<seq>
value is a random five character alphanumeric sequence.Display the pod log for the first machine config daemon pod shown in the previous output by enter the following command:
$ oc logs <pod> -n openshift-machine-config-operator
where
pod
is the name of a machine config daemon pod.- Resolve any errors in the logs shown by the output from the previous command.
To start the migration, configure the OVN-Kubernetes cluster network provider by using one of the following commands:
To specify the network provider without changing the cluster network IP address block, enter the following command:
$ oc patch Network.config.openshift.io cluster \ --type='merge' --patch '{ "spec": { "networkType": "OVNKubernetes" } }'
To specify a different cluster network IP address block, enter the following command:
$ oc patch Network.config.openshift.io cluster \ --type='merge' --patch '{ "spec": { "clusterNetwork": [ { "cidr": "<cidr>", "hostPrefix": <prefix> } ], "networkType": "OVNKubernetes" } }'
where
cidr
is a CIDR block andprefix
is the slice of the CIDR block apportioned to each node in your cluster. You cannot use any CIDR block that overlaps with the100.64.0.0/16
CIDR block because the OVN-Kubernetes network provider uses this block internally.ImportantYou cannot change the service network address block during the migration.
Verify that the Multus daemon set rollout is complete before continuing with subsequent steps:
$ oc -n openshift-multus rollout status daemonset/multus
The name of the Multus pods is in the form of
multus-<xxxxx>
where<xxxxx>
is a random sequence of letters. It might take several moments for the pods to restart.Example output
Waiting for daemon set "multus" rollout to finish: 1 out of 6 new pods have been updated... ... Waiting for daemon set "multus" rollout to finish: 5 of 6 updated pods are available... daemon set "multus" successfully rolled out
To complete the migration, reboot each node in your cluster. For example, you can use a bash script similar to the following example. The script assumes that you can connect to each host by using
ssh
and that you have configuredsudo
to not prompt for a password.#!/bin/bash for ip in $(oc get nodes -o jsonpath='{.items[*].status.addresses[?(@.type=="InternalIP")].address}') do echo "reboot node $ip" ssh -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no core@$ip sudo shutdown -r -t 3 done
If ssh access is not available, you might be able to reboot each node through the management portal for your infrastructure provider.
Confirm that the migration succeeded:
To confirm that the CNI cluster network provider is OVN-Kubernetes, enter the following command. The value of
status.networkType
must beOVNKubernetes
.$ oc get network.config/cluster -o jsonpath='{.status.networkType}{"\n"}'
To confirm that the cluster nodes are in the
Ready
state, enter the following command:$ oc get nodes
To confirm that your pods are not in an error state, enter the following command:
$ oc get pods --all-namespaces -o wide --sort-by='{.spec.nodeName}'
If pods on a node are in an error state, reboot that node.
To confirm that all of the cluster Operators are not in an abnormal state, enter the following command:
$ oc get co
The status of every cluster Operator must be the following:
AVAILABLE="True"
,PROGRESSING="False"
,DEGRADED="False"
. If a cluster Operator is not available or degraded, check the logs for the cluster Operator for more information.
Complete the following steps only if the migration succeeds and your cluster is in a good state:
To remove the migration configuration from the CNO configuration object, enter the following command:
$ oc patch Network.operator.openshift.io cluster --type='merge' \ --patch '{ "spec": { "migration": null } }'
To remove custom configuration for the OpenShift SDN network provider, enter the following command:
$ oc patch Network.operator.openshift.io cluster --type='merge' \ --patch '{ "spec": { "defaultNetwork": { "openshiftSDNConfig": null } } }'
To remove the OpenShift SDN network provider namespace, enter the following command:
$ oc delete namespace openshift-sdn
23.2.3. Additional resources
- Configuration parameters for the OVN-Kubernetes default CNI network provider
- Backing up etcd
- About network policy
- Changing the cluster MTU
- MTU value selection
OVN-Kubernetes capabilities
OpenShift SDN capabilities
- Network [operator.openshift.io/v1]
23.3. Rolling back to the OpenShift SDN network provider
As a cluster administrator, you can rollback to the OpenShift SDN Container Network Interface (CNI) cluster network provider from the OVN-Kubernetes CNI cluster network provider if the migration to OVN-Kubernetes is unsuccessful.
23.3.1. Rolling back the default CNI network provider to OpenShift SDN
As a cluster administrator, you can rollback your cluster to the OpenShift SDN Container Network Interface (CNI) cluster network provider. During the rollback, you must reboot every node in your cluster.
Only rollback to OpenShift SDN if the migration to OVN-Kubernetes fails.
Prerequisites
-
Install the OpenShift CLI (
oc
). -
Access to the cluster as a user with the
cluster-admin
role. - A cluster installed on infrastructure configured with the OVN-Kubernetes CNI cluster network provider.
Procedure
Stop all of the machine configuration pools managed by the Machine Config Operator (MCO):
Stop the master configuration pool:
$ oc patch MachineConfigPool master --type='merge' --patch \ '{ "spec": { "paused": true } }'
Stop the worker machine configuration pool:
$ oc patch MachineConfigPool worker --type='merge' --patch \ '{ "spec":{ "paused" :true } }'
To start the migration, set the cluster network provider back to OpenShift SDN by entering the following commands:
$ oc patch Network.operator.openshift.io cluster --type='merge' \ --patch '{ "spec": { "migration": { "networkType": "OpenShiftSDN" } } }' $ oc patch Network.config.openshift.io cluster --type='merge' \ --patch '{ "spec": { "networkType": "OpenShiftSDN" } }'
Optional: You can customize the following settings for OpenShift SDN to meet your network infrastructure requirements:
- Maximum transmission unit (MTU)
- VXLAN port
To customize either or both of the previously noted settings, customize and enter the following command. If you do not need to change the default value, omit the key from the patch.
$ oc patch Network.operator.openshift.io cluster --type=merge \ --patch '{ "spec":{ "defaultNetwork":{ "openshiftSDNConfig":{ "mtu":<mtu>, "vxlanPort":<port> }}}}'
mtu
-
The MTU for the VXLAN overlay network. This value is normally configured automatically, but if the nodes in your cluster do not all use the same MTU, then you must set this explicitly to
50
less than the smallest node MTU value. port
-
The UDP port for the VXLAN overlay network. If a value is not specified, the default is
4789
. The port cannot be the same as the Geneve port that is used by OVN-Kubernetes. The default value for the Geneve port is6081
.
Example patch command
$ oc patch Network.operator.openshift.io cluster --type=merge \ --patch '{ "spec":{ "defaultNetwork":{ "openshiftSDNConfig":{ "mtu":1200 }}}}'
Wait until the Multus daemon set rollout completes.
$ oc -n openshift-multus rollout status daemonset/multus
The name of the Multus pods is in form of
multus-<xxxxx>
where<xxxxx>
is a random sequence of letters. It might take several moments for the pods to restart.Example output
Waiting for daemon set "multus" rollout to finish: 1 out of 6 new pods have been updated... ... Waiting for daemon set "multus" rollout to finish: 5 of 6 updated pods are available... daemon set "multus" successfully rolled out
To complete the rollback, reboot each node in your cluster. For example, you could use a bash script similar to the following. The script assumes that you can connect to each host by using
ssh
and that you have configuredsudo
to not prompt for a password.#!/bin/bash for ip in $(oc get nodes -o jsonpath='{.items[*].status.addresses[?(@.type=="InternalIP")].address}') do echo "reboot node $ip" ssh -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no core@$ip sudo shutdown -r -t 3 done
If ssh access is not available, you might be able to reboot each node through the management portal for your infrastructure provider.
After the nodes in your cluster have rebooted, start all of the machine configuration pools:
Start the master configuration pool:
$ oc patch MachineConfigPool master --type='merge' --patch \ '{ "spec": { "paused": false } }'
Start the worker configuration pool:
$ oc patch MachineConfigPool worker --type='merge' --patch \ '{ "spec": { "paused": false } }'
As the MCO updates machines in each config pool, it reboots each node.
By default the MCO updates a single machine per pool at a time, so the time that the migration requires to complete grows with the size of the cluster.
Confirm the status of the new machine configuration on the hosts:
To list the machine configuration state and the name of the applied machine configuration, enter the following command:
$ oc describe node | egrep "hostname|machineconfig"
Example output
kubernetes.io/hostname=master-0 machineconfiguration.openshift.io/currentConfig: rendered-master-c53e221d9d24e1c8bb6ee89dd3d8ad7b machineconfiguration.openshift.io/desiredConfig: rendered-master-c53e221d9d24e1c8bb6ee89dd3d8ad7b machineconfiguration.openshift.io/reason: machineconfiguration.openshift.io/state: Done
Verify that the following statements are true:
-
The value of
machineconfiguration.openshift.io/state
field isDone
. -
The value of the
machineconfiguration.openshift.io/currentConfig
field is equal to the value of themachineconfiguration.openshift.io/desiredConfig
field.
-
The value of
To confirm that the machine config is correct, enter the following command:
$ oc get machineconfig <config_name> -o yaml
where
<config_name>
is the name of the machine config from themachineconfiguration.openshift.io/currentConfig
field.
Confirm that the migration succeeded:
To confirm that the default CNI network provider is OpenShift SDN, enter the following command. The value of
status.networkType
must beOpenShiftSDN
.$ oc get network.config/cluster -o jsonpath='{.status.networkType}{"\n"}'
To confirm that the cluster nodes are in the
Ready
state, enter the following command:$ oc get nodes
If a node is stuck in the
NotReady
state, investigate the machine config daemon pod logs and resolve any errors.To list the pods, enter the following command:
$ oc get pod -n openshift-machine-config-operator
Example output
NAME READY STATUS RESTARTS AGE machine-config-controller-75f756f89d-sjp8b 1/1 Running 0 37m machine-config-daemon-5cf4b 2/2 Running 0 43h machine-config-daemon-7wzcd 2/2 Running 0 43h machine-config-daemon-fc946 2/2 Running 0 43h machine-config-daemon-g2v28 2/2 Running 0 43h machine-config-daemon-gcl4f 2/2 Running 0 43h machine-config-daemon-l5tnv 2/2 Running 0 43h machine-config-operator-79d9c55d5-hth92 1/1 Running 0 37m machine-config-server-bsc8h 1/1 Running 0 43h machine-config-server-hklrm 1/1 Running 0 43h machine-config-server-k9rtx 1/1 Running 0 43h
The names for the config daemon pods are in the following format:
machine-config-daemon-<seq>
. The<seq>
value is a random five character alphanumeric sequence.To display the pod log for each machine config daemon pod shown in the previous output, enter the following command:
$ oc logs <pod> -n openshift-machine-config-operator
where
pod
is the name of a machine config daemon pod.- Resolve any errors in the logs shown by the output from the previous command.
To confirm that your pods are not in an error state, enter the following command:
$ oc get pods --all-namespaces -o wide --sort-by='{.spec.nodeName}'
If pods on a node are in an error state, reboot that node.
Complete the following steps only if the migration succeeds and your cluster is in a good state:
To remove the migration configuration from the Cluster Network Operator configuration object, enter the following command:
$ oc patch Network.operator.openshift.io cluster --type='merge' \ --patch '{ "spec": { "migration": null } }'
To remove the OVN-Kubernetes configuration, enter the following command:
$ oc patch Network.operator.openshift.io cluster --type='merge' \ --patch '{ "spec": { "defaultNetwork": { "ovnKubernetesConfig":null } } }'
To remove the OVN-Kubernetes network provider namespace, enter the following command:
$ oc delete namespace openshift-ovn-kubernetes
23.4. Converting to IPv4/IPv6 dual-stack networking
As a cluster administrator, you can convert your IPv4 single-stack cluster to a dual-network cluster network that supports IPv4 and IPv6 address families. After converting to dual-stack, all newly created pods are dual-stack enabled.
A dual-stack network is supported on clusters provisioned on bare metal, IBM Power infrastructure, and single node OpenShift clusters.
While using dual-stack networking, you cannot use IPv4-mapped IPv6 addresses, such as ::FFFF:198.51.100.1
, where IPv6 is required.
23.4.1. Converting to a dual-stack cluster network
As a cluster administrator, you can convert your single-stack cluster network to a dual-stack cluster network.
After converting to dual-stack networking only newly created pods are assigned IPv6 addresses. Any pods created before the conversion must be recreated to receive an IPv6 address.
Prerequisites
-
You installed the OpenShift CLI (
oc
). -
You are logged in to the cluster with a user with
cluster-admin
privileges. - Your cluster uses the OVN-Kubernetes cluster network provider.
- The cluster nodes have IPv6 addresses.
- You have configured an IPv6-enabled router based on your infrastructure.
Procedure
To specify IPv6 address blocks for the cluster and service networks, create a file containing the following YAML:
- op: add path: /spec/clusterNetwork/- value: 1 cidr: fd01::/48 hostPrefix: 64 - op: add path: /spec/serviceNetwork/- value: fd02::/112 2
- 1
- Specify an object with the
cidr
andhostPrefix
fields. The host prefix must be64
or greater. The IPv6 CIDR prefix must be large enough to accommodate the specified host prefix. - 2
- Specify an IPv6 CIDR with a prefix of
112
. Kubernetes uses only the lowest 16 bits. For a prefix of112
, IP addresses are assigned from112
to128
bits.
To patch the cluster network configuration, enter the following command:
$ oc patch network.config.openshift.io cluster \ --type='json' --patch-file <file>.yaml
where:
file
- Specifies the name of the file you created in the previous step.
Example output
network.config.openshift.io/cluster patched
Verification
Complete the following step to verify that the cluster network recognizes the IPv6 address blocks that you specified in the previous procedure.
Display the network configuration:
$ oc describe network
Example output
Status: Cluster Network: Cidr: 10.128.0.0/14 Host Prefix: 23 Cidr: fd01::/48 Host Prefix: 64 Cluster Network MTU: 1400 Network Type: OVNKubernetes Service Network: 172.30.0.0/16 fd02::/112
23.4.2. Converting to a single-stack cluster network
As a cluster administrator, you can convert your dual-stack cluster network to a single-stack cluster network.
Prerequisites
-
You installed the OpenShift CLI (
oc
). -
You are logged in to the cluster with a user with
cluster-admin
privileges. - Your cluster uses the OVN-Kubernetes cluster network provider.
- The cluster nodes have IPv6 addresses.
- You have enabled dual-stack networking.
Procedure
Edit the
networks.config.openshift.io
custom resource (CR) by running the following command:$ oc edit networks.config.openshift.io
-
Remove the IPv6 specific configuration that you have added to the
cidr
andhostPrefix
fields in the previous procedure.
23.5. Configuring IPsec encryption
With IPsec enabled, all pod-to-pod network traffic between nodes on the OVN-Kubernetes cluster network is encrypted with IPsec Transport mode.
IPsec is disabled by default. It can be enabled either during or after installing the cluster. For information about cluster installation, see OpenShift Container Platform installation overview. If you need to enable IPsec after cluster installation, you must first resize your cluster MTU to account for the overhead of the IPsec ESP IP header.
The following documentation describes how to enable and disable IPSec after cluster installation.
23.5.1. Prerequisites
-
You have decreased the size of the cluster MTU by
46
bytes to allow for the additional overhead of the IPsec ESP header. For more information on resizing the MTU that your cluster uses, see Changing the MTU for the cluster network.
23.5.2. Types of network traffic flows encrypted by IPsec
With IPsec enabled, only the following network traffic flows between pods are encrypted:
- Traffic between pods on different nodes on the cluster network
- Traffic from a pod on the host network to a pod on the cluster network
The following traffic flows are not encrypted:
- Traffic between pods on the same node on the cluster network
- Traffic between pods on the host network
- Traffic from a pod on the cluster network to a pod on the host network
The encrypted and unencrypted flows are illustrated in the following diagram:
23.5.2.1. Network connectivity requirements when IPsec is enabled
You must configure the network connectivity between machines to allow OpenShift Container Platform cluster components to communicate. Each machine must be able to resolve the hostnames of all other machines in the cluster.
Protocol | Port | Description |
---|---|---|
UDP |
| IPsec IKE packets |
| IPsec NAT-T packets | |
ESP | N/A | IPsec Encapsulating Security Payload (ESP) |
23.5.3. Encryption protocol and IPsec mode
The encrypt cipher used is AES-GCM-16-256
. The integrity check value (ICV) is 16
bytes. The key length is 256
bits.
The IPsec mode used is Transport mode, a mode that encrypts end-to-end communication by adding an Encapsulated Security Payload (ESP) header to the IP header of the original packet and encrypts the packet data. OpenShift Container Platform does not currently use or support IPsec Tunnel mode for pod-to-pod communication.
23.5.4. Security certificate generation and rotation
The Cluster Network Operator (CNO) generates a self-signed X.509 certificate authority (CA) that is used by IPsec for encryption. Certificate signing requests (CSRs) from each node are automatically fulfilled by the CNO.
The CA is valid for 10 years. The individual node certificates are valid for 5 years and are automatically rotated after 4 1/2 years elapse.
23.5.5. Enabling IPsec encryption
As a cluster administrator, you can enable IPsec encryption after cluster installation.
Prerequisites
-
Install the OpenShift CLI (
oc
). -
Log in to the cluster with a user with
cluster-admin
privileges. -
You have reduced the size of your cluster MTU by
46
bytes to allow for the overhead of the IPsec ESP header.
Procedure
To enable IPsec encryption, enter the following command:
$ oc patch networks.operator.openshift.io cluster --type=merge \ -p '{"spec":{"defaultNetwork":{"ovnKubernetesConfig":{"ipsecConfig":{ }}}}}'
23.5.6. Verifying that IPsec is enabled
As a cluster administrator, you can verify that IPsec is enabled.
Verification
To find the names of the OVN-Kubernetes control plane pods, enter the following command:
$ oc get pods -n openshift-ovn-kubernetes | grep ovnkube-master
Example output
ovnkube-master-4496s 1/1 Running 0 6h39m ovnkube-master-d6cht 1/1 Running 0 6h42m ovnkube-master-skblc 1/1 Running 0 6h51m ovnkube-master-vf8rf 1/1 Running 0 6h51m ovnkube-master-w7hjr 1/1 Running 0 6h51m ovnkube-master-zsk7x 1/1 Running 0 6h42m
Verify that IPsec is enabled on your cluster:
$ oc -n openshift-ovn-kubernetes -c nbdb rsh ovnkube-master-<XXXXX> \ ovn-nbctl --no-leader-only get nb_global . ipsec
where:
<XXXXX>
- Specifies the random sequence of letters for a pod from the previous step.
Example output
true
23.5.7. Disabling IPsec encryption
As a cluster administrator, you can disable IPsec encryption only if you enabled IPsec after cluster installation.
If you enabled IPsec when you installed your cluster, you cannot disable IPsec with this procedure.
Prerequisites
-
Install the OpenShift CLI (
oc
). -
Log in to the cluster with a user with
cluster-admin
privileges.
Procedure
To disable IPsec encryption, enter the following command:
$ oc patch networks.operator.openshift.io/cluster --type=json \ -p='[{"op":"remove", "path":"/spec/defaultNetwork/ovnKubernetesConfig/ipsecConfig"}]'
-
Optional: You can increase the size of your cluster MTU by
46
bytes because there is no longer any overhead from the IPsec ESP header in IP packets.
23.5.8. Additional resources
23.6. Configuring an egress firewall for a project
As a cluster administrator, you can create an egress firewall for a project that restricts egress traffic leaving your OpenShift Container Platform cluster.
23.6.1. How an egress firewall works in a project
As a cluster administrator, you can use an egress firewall to limit the external hosts that some or all pods can access from within the cluster. An egress firewall supports the following scenarios:
- A pod can only connect to internal hosts and cannot initiate connections to the public internet.
- A pod can only connect to the public internet and cannot initiate connections to internal hosts that are outside the OpenShift Container Platform cluster.
- A pod cannot reach specified internal subnets or hosts outside the OpenShift Container Platform cluster.
- A pod can connect to only specific external hosts.
For example, you can allow one project access to a specified IP range but deny the same access to a different project. Or you can restrict application developers from updating from Python pip mirrors, and force updates to come only from approved sources.
Egress firewall does not apply to the host network namespace. Pods with host networking enabled are unaffected by egress firewall rules.
You configure an egress firewall policy by creating an EgressFirewall custom resource (CR) object. The egress firewall matches network traffic that meets any of the following criteria:
- An IP address range in CIDR format
- A DNS name that resolves to an IP address
- A port number
- A protocol that is one of the following protocols: TCP, UDP, and SCTP
If your egress firewall includes a deny rule for 0.0.0.0/0
, access to your OpenShift Container Platform API servers is blocked. To ensure that pods can access the OpenShift Container Platform API servers, you must include the built-in join network 100.64.0.0/16
of Open Virtual Network (OVN) to allow access when using node ports together with an EgressFirewall. You must also include the IP address range that the API servers listen on in your egress firewall rules, as in the following example:
apiVersion: k8s.ovn.org/v1 kind: EgressFirewall metadata: name: default namespace: <namespace> 1 spec: egress: - to: cidrSelector: <api_server_address_range> 2 type: Allow # ... - to: cidrSelector: 0.0.0.0/0 3 type: Deny
To find the IP address for your API servers, run oc get ep kubernetes -n default
.
For more information, see BZ#1988324.
Egress firewall rules do not apply to traffic that goes through routers. Any user with permission to create a Route CR object can bypass egress firewall policy rules by creating a route that points to a forbidden destination.
23.6.1.1. Limitations of an egress firewall
An egress firewall has the following limitations:
- No project can have more than one EgressFirewall object.
- A maximum of one EgressFirewall object with a maximum of 8,000 rules can be defined per project.
- If you are using the OVN-Kubernetes network plugin with shared gateway mode in Red Hat OpenShift Networking, return ingress replies are affected by egress firewall rules. If the egress firewall rules drop the ingress reply destination IP, the traffic is dropped.
Violating any of these restrictions results in a broken egress firewall for the project. Consequently, all external network traffic is dropped, which can cause security risks for your organization.
An Egress Firewall resource can be created in the kube-node-lease
, kube-public
, kube-system
, openshift
and openshift-
projects.
23.6.1.2. Matching order for egress firewall policy rules
The egress firewall policy rules are evaluated in the order that they are defined, from first to last. The first rule that matches an egress connection from a pod applies. Any subsequent rules are ignored for that connection.
23.6.1.3. How Domain Name Server (DNS) resolution works
If you use DNS names in any of your egress firewall policy rules, proper resolution of the domain names is subject to the following restrictions:
- Domain name updates are polled based on a time-to-live (TTL) duration. By default, the duration is 30 minutes. When the egress firewall controller queries the local name servers for a domain name, if the response includes a TTL and the TTL is less than 30 minutes, the controller sets the duration for that DNS name to the returned value. Each DNS name is queried after the TTL for the DNS record expires.
- The pod must resolve the domain from the same local name servers when necessary. Otherwise the IP addresses for the domain known by the egress firewall controller and the pod can be different. If the IP addresses for a hostname differ, the egress firewall might not be enforced consistently.
- Because the egress firewall controller and pods asynchronously poll the same local name server, the pod might obtain the updated IP address before the egress controller does, which causes a race condition. Due to this current limitation, domain name usage in EgressFirewall objects is only recommended for domains with infrequent IP address changes.
The egress firewall always allows pods access to the external interface of the node that the pod is on for DNS resolution.
If you use domain names in your egress firewall policy and your DNS resolution is not handled by a DNS server on the local node, then you must add egress firewall rules that allow access to your DNS server’s IP addresses. if you are using domain names in your pods.
23.6.2. EgressFirewall custom resource (CR) object
You can define one or more rules for an egress firewall. A rule is either an Allow
rule or a Deny
rule, with a specification for the traffic that the rule applies to.
The following YAML describes an EgressFirewall CR object:
EgressFirewall object
apiVersion: k8s.ovn.org/v1 kind: EgressFirewall metadata: name: <name> 1 spec: egress: 2 ...
23.6.2.1. EgressFirewall rules
The following YAML describes an egress firewall rule object. The egress
stanza expects an array of one or more objects.
Egress policy rule stanza
egress: - type: <type> 1 to: 2 cidrSelector: <cidr> 3 dnsName: <dns_name> 4 ports: 5 ...
- 1
- The type of rule. The value must be either
Allow
orDeny
. - 2
- A stanza describing an egress traffic match rule that specifies the
cidrSelector
field or thednsName
field. You cannot use both fields in the same rule. - 3
- An IP address range in CIDR format.
- 4
- A DNS domain name.
- 5
- Optional: A stanza describing a collection of network ports and protocols for the rule.
Ports stanza
ports: - port: <port> 1 protocol: <protocol> 2
23.6.2.2. Example EgressFirewall CR objects
The following example defines several egress firewall policy rules:
apiVersion: k8s.ovn.org/v1
kind: EgressFirewall
metadata:
name: default
spec:
egress: 1
- type: Allow
to:
cidrSelector: 1.2.3.0/24
- type: Deny
to:
cidrSelector: 0.0.0.0/0
- 1
- A collection of egress firewall policy rule objects.
The following example defines a policy rule that denies traffic to the host at the 172.16.1.1
IP address, if the traffic is using either the TCP protocol and destination port 80
or any protocol and destination port 443
.
apiVersion: k8s.ovn.org/v1 kind: EgressFirewall metadata: name: default spec: egress: - type: Deny to: cidrSelector: 172.16.1.1 ports: - port: 80 protocol: TCP - port: 443
23.6.3. Creating an egress firewall policy object
As a cluster administrator, you can create an egress firewall policy object for a project.
If the project already has an EgressFirewall object defined, you must edit the existing policy to make changes to the egress firewall rules.
Prerequisites
- A cluster that uses the OVN-Kubernetes default Container Network Interface (CNI) network provider plugin.
-
Install the OpenShift CLI (
oc
). - You must log in to the cluster as a cluster administrator.
Procedure
Create a policy rule:
-
Create a
<policy_name>.yaml
file where<policy_name>
describes the egress policy rules. - In the file you created, define an egress policy object.
-
Create a
Enter the following command to create the policy object. Replace
<policy_name>
with the name of the policy and<project>
with the project that the rule applies to.$ oc create -f <policy_name>.yaml -n <project>
In the following example, a new EgressFirewall object is created in a project named
project1
:$ oc create -f default.yaml -n project1
Example output
egressfirewall.k8s.ovn.org/v1 created
-
Optional: Save the
<policy_name>.yaml
file so that you can make changes later.
23.7. Viewing an egress firewall for a project
As a cluster administrator, you can list the names of any existing egress firewalls and view the traffic rules for a specific egress firewall.
23.7.1. Viewing an EgressFirewall object
You can view an EgressFirewall object in your cluster.
Prerequisites
- A cluster using the OVN-Kubernetes default Container Network Interface (CNI) network provider plugin.
-
Install the OpenShift Command-line Interface (CLI), commonly known as
oc
. - You must log in to the cluster.
Procedure
Optional: To view the names of the EgressFirewall objects defined in your cluster, enter the following command:
$ oc get egressfirewall --all-namespaces
To inspect a policy, enter the following command. Replace
<policy_name>
with the name of the policy to inspect.$ oc describe egressfirewall <policy_name>
Example output
Name: default Namespace: project1 Created: 20 minutes ago Labels: <none> Annotations: <none> Rule: Allow to 1.2.3.0/24 Rule: Allow to www.example.com Rule: Deny to 0.0.0.0/0
23.8. Editing an egress firewall for a project
As a cluster administrator, you can modify network traffic rules for an existing egress firewall.
23.8.1. Editing an EgressFirewall object
As a cluster administrator, you can update the egress firewall for a project.
Prerequisites
- A cluster using the OVN-Kubernetes default Container Network Interface (CNI) network provider plugin.
-
Install the OpenShift CLI (
oc
). - You must log in to the cluster as a cluster administrator.
Procedure
Find the name of the EgressFirewall object for the project. Replace
<project>
with the name of the project.$ oc get -n <project> egressfirewall
Optional: If you did not save a copy of the EgressFirewall object when you created the egress network firewall, enter the following command to create a copy.
$ oc get -n <project> egressfirewall <name> -o yaml > <filename>.yaml
Replace
<project>
with the name of the project. Replace<name>
with the name of the object. Replace<filename>
with the name of the file to save the YAML to.After making changes to the policy rules, enter the following command to replace the EgressFirewall object. Replace
<filename>
with the name of the file containing the updated EgressFirewall object.$ oc replace -f <filename>.yaml
23.9. Removing an egress firewall from a project
As a cluster administrator, you can remove an egress firewall from a project to remove all restrictions on network traffic from the project that leaves the OpenShift Container Platform cluster.
23.9.1. Removing an EgressFirewall object
As a cluster administrator, you can remove an egress firewall from a project.
Prerequisites
- A cluster using the OVN-Kubernetes default Container Network Interface (CNI) network provider plugin.
-
Install the OpenShift CLI (
oc
). - You must log in to the cluster as a cluster administrator.
Procedure
Find the name of the EgressFirewall object for the project. Replace
<project>
with the name of the project.$ oc get -n <project> egressfirewall
Enter the following command to delete the EgressFirewall object. Replace
<project>
with the name of the project and<name>
with the name of the object.$ oc delete -n <project> egressfirewall <name>
23.10. Configuring an egress IP address
As a cluster administrator, you can configure the OVN-Kubernetes Container Network Interface (CNI) cluster network provider to assign one or more egress IP addresses to a namespace, or to specific pods in a namespace.
23.10.1. Egress IP address architectural design and implementation
The OpenShift Container Platform egress IP address functionality allows you to ensure that the traffic from one or more pods in one or more namespaces has a consistent source IP address for services outside the cluster network.
For example, you might have a pod that periodically queries a database that is hosted on a server outside of your cluster. To enforce access requirements for the server, a packet filtering device is configured to allow traffic only from specific IP addresses. To ensure that you can reliably allow access to the server from only that specific pod, you can configure a specific egress IP address for the pod that makes the requests to the server.
An egress IP address assigned to a namespace is different from an egress router, which is used to send traffic to specific destinations.
In some cluster configurations, application pods and ingress router pods run on the same node. If you configure an egress IP address for an application project in this scenario, the IP address is not used when you send a request to a route from the application project.
Egress IP addresses must not be configured in any Linux network configuration files, such as ifcfg-eth0
.
23.10.1.1. Platform support
Support for the egress IP address functionality on various platforms is summarized in the following table:
Platform | Supported |
---|---|
Bare metal | Yes |
VMware vSphere | Yes |
Red Hat OpenStack Platform (RHOSP) | No |
Amazon Web Services (AWS) | Yes |
Google Cloud Platform (GCP) | Yes |
Microsoft Azure | Yes |
The assignment of egress IP addresses to control plane nodes with the EgressIP feature is not supported on a cluster provisioned on Amazon Web Services (AWS). (BZ#2039656)
23.10.1.2. Public cloud platform considerations
For clusters provisioned on public cloud infrastructure, there is a constraint on the absolute number of assignable IP addresses per node. The maximum number of assignable IP addresses per node, or the IP capacity, can be described in the following formula:
IP capacity = public cloud default capacity - sum(current IP assignments)
While the Egress IPs capability manages the IP address capacity per node, it is important to plan for this constraint in your deployments. For example, for a cluster installed on bare-metal infrastructure with 8 nodes you can configure 150 egress IP addresses. However, if a public cloud provider limits IP address capacity to 10 IP addresses per node, the total number of assignable IP addresses is only 80. To achieve the same IP address capacity in this example cloud provider, you would need to allocate 7 additional nodes.
To confirm the IP capacity and subnets for any node in your public cloud environment, you can enter the oc get node <node_name> -o yaml
command. The cloud.network.openshift.io/egress-ipconfig
annotation includes capacity and subnet information for the node.
The annotation value is an array with a single object with fields that provide the following information for the primary network interface:
-
interface
: Specifies the interface ID on AWS and Azure and the interface name on GCP. -
ifaddr
: Specifies the subnet mask for one or both IP address families. -
capacity
: Specifies the IP address capacity for the node. On AWS, the IP address capacity is provided per IP address family. On Azure and GCP, the IP address capacity includes both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses.
The following examples illustrate the annotation from nodes on several public cloud providers. The annotations are indented for readability.
Example cloud.network.openshift.io/egress-ipconfig
annotation on AWS
cloud.network.openshift.io/egress-ipconfig: [ { "interface":"eni-078d267045138e436", "ifaddr":{"ipv4":"10.0.128.0/18"}, "capacity":{"ipv4":14,"ipv6":15} } ]
Example cloud.network.openshift.io/egress-ipconfig
annotation on GCP
cloud.network.openshift.io/egress-ipconfig: [ { "interface":"nic0", "ifaddr":{"ipv4":"10.0.128.0/18"}, "capacity":{"ip":14} } ]
The following sections describe the IP address capacity for supported public cloud environments for use in your capacity calculation.
23.10.1.2.1. Amazon Web Services (AWS) IP address capacity limits
On AWS, constraints on IP address assignments depend on the instance type configured. For more information, see IP addresses per network interface per instance type
23.10.1.2.2. Google Cloud Platform (GCP) IP address capacity limits
On GCP, the networking model implements additional node IP addresses through IP address aliasing, rather than IP address assignments. However, IP address capacity maps directly to IP aliasing capacity.
The following capacity limits exist for IP aliasing assignment:
- Per node, the maximum number of IP aliases, both IPv4 and IPv6, is 10.
- Per VPC, the maximum number of IP aliases is unspecified, but OpenShift Container Platform scalability testing reveals the maximum to be approximately 15,000.
For more information, see Per instance quotas and Alias IP ranges overview.
23.10.1.2.3. Microsoft Azure IP address capacity limits
On Azure, the following capacity limits exist for IP address assignment:
- Per NIC, the maximum number of assignable IP addresses, for both IPv4 and IPv6, is 256.
- Per virtual network, the maximum number of assigned IP addresses cannot exceed 65,536.
For more information, see Networking limits.
23.10.1.3. Assignment of egress IPs to pods
To assign one or more egress IPs to a namespace or specific pods in a namespace, the following conditions must be satisfied:
-
At least one node in your cluster must have the
k8s.ovn.org/egress-assignable: ""
label. -
An
EgressIP
object exists that defines one or more egress IP addresses to use as the source IP address for traffic leaving the cluster from pods in a namespace.
If you create EgressIP
objects prior to labeling any nodes in your cluster for egress IP assignment, OpenShift Container Platform might assign every egress IP address to the first node with the k8s.ovn.org/egress-assignable: ""
label.
To ensure that egress IP addresses are widely distributed across nodes in the cluster, always apply the label to the nodes you intent to host the egress IP addresses before creating any EgressIP
objects.
23.10.1.4. Assignment of egress IPs to nodes
When creating an EgressIP
object, the following conditions apply to nodes that are labeled with the k8s.ovn.org/egress-assignable: ""
label:
- An egress IP address is never assigned to more than one node at a time.
- An egress IP address is equally balanced between available nodes that can host the egress IP address.
If the
spec.EgressIPs
array in anEgressIP
object specifies more than one IP address, the following conditions apply:- No node will ever host more than one of the specified IP addresses.
- Traffic is balanced roughly equally between the specified IP addresses for a given namespace.
- If a node becomes unavailable, any egress IP addresses assigned to it are automatically reassigned, subject to the previously described conditions.
When a pod matches the selector for multiple EgressIP
objects, there is no guarantee which of the egress IP addresses that are specified in the EgressIP
objects is assigned as the egress IP address for the pod.
Additionally, if an EgressIP
object specifies multiple egress IP addresses, there is no guarantee which of the egress IP addresses might be used. For example, if a pod matches a selector for an EgressIP
object with two egress IP addresses, 10.10.20.1
and 10.10.20.2
, either might be used for each TCP connection or UDP conversation.
23.10.1.5. Architectural diagram of an egress IP address configuration
The following diagram depicts an egress IP address configuration. The diagram describes four pods in two different namespaces running on three nodes in a cluster. The nodes are assigned IP addresses from the 192.168.126.0/18
CIDR block on the host network.
Both Node 1 and Node 3 are labeled with k8s.ovn.org/egress-assignable: ""
and thus available for the assignment of egress IP addresses.
The dashed lines in the diagram depict the traffic flow from pod1, pod2, and pod3 traveling through the pod network to egress the cluster from Node 1 and Node 3. When an external service receives traffic from any of the pods selected by the example EgressIP
object, the source IP address is either 192.168.126.10
or 192.168.126.102
. The traffic is balanced roughly equally between these two nodes.
The following resources from the diagram are illustrated in detail:
Namespace
objectsThe namespaces are defined in the following manifest:
Namespace objects
apiVersion: v1 kind: Namespace metadata: name: namespace1 labels: env: prod --- apiVersion: v1 kind: Namespace metadata: name: namespace2 labels: env: prod
EgressIP
objectThe following
EgressIP
object describes a configuration that selects all pods in any namespace with theenv
label set toprod
. The egress IP addresses for the selected pods are192.168.126.10
and192.168.126.102
.EgressIP
objectapiVersion: k8s.ovn.org/v1 kind: EgressIP metadata: name: egressips-prod spec: egressIPs: - 192.168.126.10 - 192.168.126.102 namespaceSelector: matchLabels: env: prod status: items: - node: node1 egressIP: 192.168.126.10 - node: node3 egressIP: 192.168.126.102
For the configuration in the previous example, OpenShift Container Platform assigns both egress IP addresses to the available nodes. The
status
field reflects whether and where the egress IP addresses are assigned.
23.10.2. EgressIP object
The following YAML describes the API for the EgressIP
object. The scope of the object is cluster-wide; it is not created in a namespace.
apiVersion: k8s.ovn.org/v1 kind: EgressIP metadata: name: <name> 1 spec: egressIPs: 2 - <ip_address> namespaceSelector: 3 ... podSelector: 4 ...
- 1
- The name for the
EgressIPs
object. - 2
- An array of one or more IP addresses.
- 3
- One or more selectors for the namespaces to associate the egress IP addresses with.
- 4
- Optional: One or more selectors for pods in the specified namespaces to associate egress IP addresses with. Applying these selectors allows for the selection of a subset of pods within a namespace.
The following YAML describes the stanza for the namespace selector:
Namespace selector stanza
namespaceSelector: 1
matchLabels:
<label_name>: <label_value>
- 1
- One or more matching rules for namespaces. If more than one match rule is provided, all matching namespaces are selected.
The following YAML describes the optional stanza for the pod selector:
Pod selector stanza
podSelector: 1
matchLabels:
<label_name>: <label_value>
- 1
- Optional: One or more matching rules for pods in the namespaces that match the specified
namespaceSelector
rules. If specified, only pods that match are selected. Others pods in the namespace are not selected.
In the following example, the EgressIP
object associates the 192.168.126.11
and 192.168.126.102
egress IP addresses with pods that have the app
label set to web
and are in the namespaces that have the env
label set to prod
:
Example EgressIP
object
apiVersion: k8s.ovn.org/v1 kind: EgressIP metadata: name: egress-group1 spec: egressIPs: - 192.168.126.11 - 192.168.126.102 podSelector: matchLabels: app: web namespaceSelector: matchLabels: env: prod
In the following example, the EgressIP
object associates the 192.168.127.30
and 192.168.127.40
egress IP addresses with any pods that do not have the environment
label set to development
:
Example EgressIP
object
apiVersion: k8s.ovn.org/v1 kind: EgressIP metadata: name: egress-group2 spec: egressIPs: - 192.168.127.30 - 192.168.127.40 namespaceSelector: matchExpressions: - key: environment operator: NotIn values: - development
23.10.3. Labeling a node to host egress IP addresses
You can apply the k8s.ovn.org/egress-assignable=""
label to a node in your cluster so that OpenShift Container Platform can assign one or more egress IP addresses to the node.
Prerequisites
-
Install the OpenShift CLI (
oc
). - Log in to the cluster as a cluster administrator.
Procedure
To label a node so that it can host one or more egress IP addresses, enter the following command:
$ oc label nodes <node_name> k8s.ovn.org/egress-assignable="" 1
- 1
- The name of the node to label.
TipYou can alternatively apply the following YAML to add the label to a node:
apiVersion: v1 kind: Node metadata: labels: k8s.ovn.org/egress-assignable: "" name: <node_name>
23.10.4. Next steps
23.10.5. Additional resources
23.11. Assigning an egress IP address
As a cluster administrator, you can assign an egress IP address for traffic leaving the cluster from a namespace or from specific pods in a namespace.
23.11.1. Assigning an egress IP address to a namespace
You can assign one or more egress IP addresses to a namespace or to specific pods in a namespace.
Prerequisites
-
Install the OpenShift CLI (
oc
). - Log in to the cluster as a cluster administrator.
- Configure at least one node to host an egress IP address.
Procedure
Create an
EgressIP
object:-
Create a
<egressips_name>.yaml
file where<egressips_name>
is the name of the object. In the file that you created, define an
EgressIP
object, as in the following example:apiVersion: k8s.ovn.org/v1 kind: EgressIP metadata: name: egress-project1 spec: egressIPs: - 192.168.127.10 - 192.168.127.11 namespaceSelector: matchLabels: env: qa
-
Create a
To create the object, enter the following command.
$ oc apply -f <egressips_name>.yaml 1
- 1
- Replace
<egressips_name>
with the name of the object.
Example output
egressips.k8s.ovn.org/<egressips_name> created
-
Optional: Save the
<egressips_name>.yaml
file so that you can make changes later. Add labels to the namespace that requires egress IP addresses. To add a label to the namespace of an
EgressIP
object defined in step 1, run the following command:$ oc label ns <namespace> env=qa 1
- 1
- Replace
<namespace>
with the namespace that requires egress IP addresses.
23.11.2. Additional resources
23.12. Considerations for the use of an egress router pod
23.12.1. About an egress router pod
The OpenShift Container Platform egress router pod redirects traffic to a specified remote server from a private source IP address that is not used for any other purpose. An egress router pod can send network traffic to servers that are set up to allow access only from specific IP addresses.
The egress router pod is not intended for every outgoing connection. Creating large numbers of egress router pods can exceed the limits of your network hardware. For example, creating an egress router pod for every project or application could exceed the number of local MAC addresses that the network interface can handle before reverting to filtering MAC addresses in software.
The egress router image is not compatible with Amazon AWS, Azure Cloud, or any other cloud platform that does not support layer 2 manipulations due to their incompatibility with macvlan traffic.
23.12.1.1. Egress router modes
In redirect mode, an egress router pod configures iptables
rules to redirect traffic from its own IP address to one or more destination IP addresses. Client pods that need to use the reserved source IP address must be configured to access the service for the egress router rather than connecting directly to the destination IP. You can access the destination service and port from the application pod by using the curl
command. For example:
$ curl <router_service_IP> <port>
The egress router CNI plugin supports redirect mode only. This is a difference with the egress router implementation that you can deploy with OpenShift SDN. Unlike the egress router for OpenShift SDN, the egress router CNI plugin does not support HTTP proxy mode or DNS proxy mode.
23.12.1.2. Egress router pod implementation
The egress router implementation uses the egress router Container Network Interface (CNI) plugin. The plugin adds a secondary network interface to a pod.
An egress router is a pod that has two network interfaces. For example, the pod can have eth0
and net1
network interfaces. The eth0
interface is on the cluster network and the pod continues to use the interface for ordinary cluster-related network traffic. The net1
interface is on a secondary network and has an IP address and gateway for that network. Other pods in the OpenShift Container Platform cluster can access the egress router service and the service enables the pods to access external services. The egress router acts as a bridge between pods and an external system.
Traffic that leaves the egress router exits through a node, but the packets have the MAC address of the net1
interface from the egress router pod.
When you add an egress router custom resource, the Cluster Network Operator creates the following objects:
-
The network attachment definition for the
net1
secondary network interface of the pod. - A deployment for the egress router.
If you delete an egress router custom resource, the Operator deletes the two objects in the preceding list that are associated with the egress router.
23.12.1.3. Deployment considerations
An egress router pod adds an additional IP address and MAC address to the primary network interface of the node. As a result, you might need to configure your hypervisor or cloud provider to allow the additional address.
- Red Hat OpenStack Platform (RHOSP)
If you deploy OpenShift Container Platform on RHOSP, you must allow traffic from the IP and MAC addresses of the egress router pod on your OpenStack environment. If you do not allow the traffic, then communication will fail:
$ openstack port set --allowed-address \ ip_address=<ip_address>,mac_address=<mac_address> <neutron_port_uuid>
- Red Hat Virtualization (RHV)
- If you are using RHV, you must select No Network Filter for the Virtual network interface controller (vNIC).
- VMware vSphere
- If you are using VMware vSphere, see the VMware documentation for securing vSphere standard switches. View and change VMware vSphere default settings by selecting the host virtual switch from the vSphere Web Client.
Specifically, ensure that the following are enabled:
23.12.1.4. Failover configuration
To avoid downtime, the Cluster Network Operator deploys the egress router pod as a deployment resource. The deployment name is egress-router-cni-deployment
. The pod that corresponds to the deployment has a label of app=egress-router-cni
.
To create a new service for the deployment, use the oc expose deployment/egress-router-cni-deployment --port <port_number>
command or create a file like the following example:
apiVersion: v1 kind: Service metadata: name: app-egress spec: ports: - name: tcp-8080 protocol: TCP port: 8080 - name: tcp-8443 protocol: TCP port: 8443 - name: udp-80 protocol: UDP port: 80 type: ClusterIP selector: app: egress-router-cni
23.12.2. Additional resources
23.13. Deploying an egress router pod in redirect mode
As a cluster administrator, you can deploy an egress router pod to redirect traffic to specified destination IP addresses from a reserved source IP address.
The egress router implementation uses the egress router Container Network Interface (CNI) plugin.
23.13.1. Egress router custom resource
Define the configuration for an egress router pod in an egress router custom resource. The following YAML describes the fields for the configuration of an egress router in redirect mode:
apiVersion: network.operator.openshift.io/v1 kind: EgressRouter metadata: name: <egress_router_name> namespace: <namespace> <.> spec: addresses: [ <.> { ip: "<egress_router>", <.> gateway: "<egress_gateway>" <.> } ] mode: Redirect redirect: { redirectRules: [ <.> { destinationIP: "<egress_destination>", port: <egress_router_port>, targetPort: <target_port>, <.> protocol: <network_protocol> <.> }, ... ], fallbackIP: "<egress_destination>" <.> }
<.> Optional: The namespace
field specifies the namespace to create the egress router in. If you do not specify a value in the file or on the command line, the default
namespace is used.
<.> The addresses
field specifies the IP addresses to configure on the secondary network interface.
<.> The ip
field specifies the reserved source IP address and netmask from the physical network that the node is on to use with egress router pod. Use CIDR notation to specify the IP address and netmask.
<.> The gateway
field specifies the IP address of the network gateway.
<.> Optional: The redirectRules
field specifies a combination of egress destination IP address, egress router port, and protocol. Incoming connections to the egress router on the specified port and protocol are routed to the destination IP address.
<.> Optional: The targetPort
field specifies the network port on the destination IP address. If this field is not specified, traffic is routed to the same network port that it arrived on.
<.> The protocol
field supports TCP, UDP, or SCTP.
<.> Optional: The fallbackIP
field specifies a destination IP address. If you do not specify any redirect rules, the egress router sends all traffic to this fallback IP address. If you specify redirect rules, any connections to network ports that are not defined in the rules are sent by the egress router to this fallback IP address. If you do not specify this field, the egress router rejects connections to network ports that are not defined in the rules.
Example egress router specification
apiVersion: network.operator.openshift.io/v1 kind: EgressRouter metadata: name: egress-router-redirect spec: networkInterface: { macvlan: { mode: "Bridge" } } addresses: [ { ip: "192.168.12.99/24", gateway: "192.168.12.1" } ] mode: Redirect redirect: { redirectRules: [ { destinationIP: "10.0.0.99", port: 80, protocol: UDP }, { destinationIP: "203.0.113.26", port: 8080, targetPort: 80, protocol: TCP }, { destinationIP: "203.0.113.27", port: 8443, targetPort: 443, protocol: TCP } ] }
23.13.2. Deploying an egress router in redirect mode
You can deploy an egress router to redirect traffic from its own reserved source IP address to one or more destination IP addresses.
After you add an egress router, the client pods that need to use the reserved source IP address must be modified to connect to the egress router rather than connecting directly to the destination IP.
Prerequisites
-
Install the OpenShift CLI (
oc
). -
Log in as a user with
cluster-admin
privileges.
Procedure
- Create an egress router definition.
To ensure that other pods can find the IP address of the egress router pod, create a service that uses the egress router, as in the following example:
apiVersion: v1 kind: Service metadata: name: egress-1 spec: ports: - name: web-app protocol: TCP port: 8080 type: ClusterIP selector: app: egress-router-cni <.>
<.> Specify the label for the egress router. The value shown is added by the Cluster Network Operator and is not configurable.
After you create the service, your pods can connect to the service. The egress router pod redirects traffic to the corresponding port on the destination IP address. The connections originate from the reserved source IP address.
Verification
To verify that the Cluster Network Operator started the egress router, complete the following procedure:
View the network attachment definition that the Operator created for the egress router:
$ oc get network-attachment-definition egress-router-cni-nad
The name of the network attachment definition is not configurable.
Example output
NAME AGE egress-router-cni-nad 18m
View the deployment for the egress router pod:
$ oc get deployment egress-router-cni-deployment
The name of the deployment is not configurable.
Example output
NAME READY UP-TO-DATE AVAILABLE AGE egress-router-cni-deployment 1/1 1 1 18m
View the status of the egress router pod:
$ oc get pods -l app=egress-router-cni
Example output
NAME READY STATUS RESTARTS AGE egress-router-cni-deployment-575465c75c-qkq6m 1/1 Running 0 18m
- View the logs and the routing table for the egress router pod.
Get the node name for the egress router pod:
$ POD_NODENAME=$(oc get pod -l app=egress-router-cni -o jsonpath="{.items[0].spec.nodeName}")
Enter into a debug session on the target node. This step instantiates a debug pod called
<node_name>-debug
:$ oc debug node/$POD_NODENAME
Set
/host
as the root directory within the debug shell. The debug pod mounts the root file system of the host in/host
within the pod. By changing the root directory to/host
, you can run binaries from the executable paths of the host:# chroot /host
From within the
chroot
environment console, display the egress router logs:# cat /tmp/egress-router-log
Example output
2021-04-26T12:27:20Z [debug] Called CNI ADD 2021-04-26T12:27:20Z [debug] Gateway: 192.168.12.1 2021-04-26T12:27:20Z [debug] IP Source Addresses: [192.168.12.99/24] 2021-04-26T12:27:20Z [debug] IP Destinations: [80 UDP 10.0.0.99/30 8080 TCP 203.0.113.26/30 80 8443 TCP 203.0.113.27/30 443] 2021-04-26T12:27:20Z [debug] Created macvlan interface 2021-04-26T12:27:20Z [debug] Renamed macvlan to "net1" 2021-04-26T12:27:20Z [debug] Adding route to gateway 192.168.12.1 on macvlan interface 2021-04-26T12:27:20Z [debug] deleted default route {Ifindex: 3 Dst: <nil> Src: <nil> Gw: 10.128.10.1 Flags: [] Table: 254} 2021-04-26T12:27:20Z [debug] Added new default route with gateway 192.168.12.1 2021-04-26T12:27:20Z [debug] Added iptables rule: iptables -t nat PREROUTING -i eth0 -p UDP --dport 80 -j DNAT --to-destination 10.0.0.99 2021-04-26T12:27:20Z [debug] Added iptables rule: iptables -t nat PREROUTING -i eth0 -p TCP --dport 8080 -j DNAT --to-destination 203.0.113.26:80 2021-04-26T12:27:20Z [debug] Added iptables rule: iptables -t nat PREROUTING -i eth0 -p TCP --dport 8443 -j DNAT --to-destination 203.0.113.27:443 2021-04-26T12:27:20Z [debug] Added iptables rule: iptables -t nat -o net1 -j SNAT --to-source 192.168.12.99
The logging file location and logging level are not configurable when you start the egress router by creating an
EgressRouter
object as described in this procedure.From within the
chroot
environment console, get the container ID:# crictl ps --name egress-router-cni-pod | awk '{print $1}'
Example output
CONTAINER bac9fae69ddb6
Determine the process ID of the container. In this example, the container ID is
bac9fae69ddb6
:# crictl inspect -o yaml bac9fae69ddb6 | grep 'pid:' | awk '{print $2}'
Example output
68857
Enter the network namespace of the container:
# nsenter -n -t 68857
Display the routing table:
# ip route
In the following example output, the
net1
network interface is the default route. Traffic for the cluster network uses theeth0
network interface. Traffic for the192.168.12.0/24
network uses thenet1
network interface and originates from the reserved source IP address192.168.12.99
. The pod routes all other traffic to the gateway at IP address192.168.12.1
. Routing for the service network is not shown.Example output
default via 192.168.12.1 dev net1 10.128.10.0/23 dev eth0 proto kernel scope link src 10.128.10.18 192.168.12.0/24 dev net1 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.12.99 192.168.12.1 dev net1
23.14. Enabling multicast for a project
23.14.1. About multicast
With IP multicast, data is broadcast to many IP addresses simultaneously.
- At this time, multicast is best used for low-bandwidth coordination or service discovery and not a high-bandwidth solution.
-
By default, network policies affect all connections in a namespace. However, multicast is unaffected by network policies. If multicast is enabled in the same namespace as your network policies, it is always allowed, even if there is a
deny-all
network policy. Cluster administrators should consider the implications to the exemption of multicast from network policies before enabling it.
Multicast traffic between OpenShift Container Platform pods is disabled by default. If you are using the OVN-Kubernetes default Container Network Interface (CNI) network provider, you can enable multicast on a per-project basis.
23.14.2. Enabling multicast between pods
You can enable multicast between pods for your project.
Prerequisites
-
Install the OpenShift CLI (
oc
). -
You must log in to the cluster with a user that has the
cluster-admin
role.
Procedure
Run the following command to enable multicast for a project. Replace
<namespace>
with the namespace for the project you want to enable multicast for.$ oc annotate namespace <namespace> \ k8s.ovn.org/multicast-enabled=true
TipYou can alternatively apply the following YAML to add the annotation:
apiVersion: v1 kind: Namespace metadata: name: <namespace> annotations: k8s.ovn.org/multicast-enabled: "true"
Verification
To verify that multicast is enabled for a project, complete the following procedure:
Change your current project to the project that you enabled multicast for. Replace
<project>
with the project name.$ oc project <project>
Create a pod to act as a multicast receiver:
$ cat <<EOF| oc create -f - apiVersion: v1 kind: Pod metadata: name: mlistener labels: app: multicast-verify spec: containers: - name: mlistener image: registry.access.redhat.com/ubi8 command: ["/bin/sh", "-c"] args: ["dnf -y install socat hostname && sleep inf"] ports: - containerPort: 30102 name: mlistener protocol: UDP EOF
Create a pod to act as a multicast sender:
$ cat <<EOF| oc create -f - apiVersion: v1 kind: Pod metadata: name: msender labels: app: multicast-verify spec: containers: - name: msender image: registry.access.redhat.com/ubi8 command: ["/bin/sh", "-c"] args: ["dnf -y install socat && sleep inf"] EOF
In a new terminal window or tab, start the multicast listener.
Get the IP address for the Pod:
$ POD_IP=$(oc get pods mlistener -o jsonpath='{.status.podIP}')
Start the multicast listener by entering the following command:
$ oc exec mlistener -i -t -- \ socat UDP4-RECVFROM:30102,ip-add-membership=224.1.0.1:$POD_IP,fork EXEC:hostname
Start the multicast transmitter.
Get the pod network IP address range:
$ CIDR=$(oc get Network.config.openshift.io cluster \ -o jsonpath='{.status.clusterNetwork[0].cidr}')
To send a multicast message, enter the following command:
$ oc exec msender -i -t -- \ /bin/bash -c "echo | socat STDIO UDP4-DATAGRAM:224.1.0.1:30102,range=$CIDR,ip-multicast-ttl=64"
If multicast is working, the previous command returns the following output:
mlistener
23.15. Disabling multicast for a project
23.15.1. Disabling multicast between pods
You can disable multicast between pods for your project.
Prerequisites
-
Install the OpenShift CLI (
oc
). -
You must log in to the cluster with a user that has the
cluster-admin
role.
Procedure
Disable multicast by running the following command:
$ oc annotate namespace <namespace> \ 1 k8s.ovn.org/multicast-enabled-
- 1
- The
namespace
for the project you want to disable multicast for.
TipYou can alternatively apply the following YAML to delete the annotation:
apiVersion: v1 kind: Namespace metadata: name: <namespace> annotations: k8s.ovn.org/multicast-enabled: null
23.16. Tracking network flows
As a cluster administrator, you can collect information about pod network flows from your cluster to assist with the following areas:
- Monitor ingress and egress traffic on the pod network.
- Troubleshoot performance issues.
- Gather data for capacity planning and security audits.
When you enable the collection of the network flows, only the metadata about the traffic is collected. For example, packet data is not collected, but the protocol, source address, destination address, port numbers, number of bytes, and other packet-level information is collected.
The data is collected in one or more of the following record formats:
- NetFlow
- sFlow
- IPFIX
When you configure the Cluster Network Operator (CNO) with one or more collector IP addresses and port numbers, the Operator configures Open vSwitch (OVS) on each node to send the network flows records to each collector.
You can configure the Operator to send records to more than one type of network flow collector. For example, you can send records to NetFlow collectors and also send records to sFlow collectors.
When OVS sends data to the collectors, each type of collector receives identical records. For example, if you configure two NetFlow collectors, OVS on a node sends identical records to the two collectors. If you also configure two sFlow collectors, the two sFlow collectors receive identical records. However, each collector type has a unique record format.
Collecting the network flows data and sending the records to collectors affects performance. Nodes process packets at a slower rate. If the performance impact is too great, you can delete the destinations for collectors to disable collecting network flows data and restore performance.
Enabling network flow collectors might have an impact on the overall performance of the cluster network.
23.16.1. Network object configuration for tracking network flows
The fields for configuring network flows collectors in the Cluster Network Operator (CNO) are shown in the following table:
Field | Type | Description |
---|---|---|
|
|
The name of the CNO object. This name is always |
|
|
One or more of |
|
| A list of IP address and network port pairs for up to 10 collectors. |
|
| A list of IP address and network port pairs for up to 10 collectors. |
|
| A list of IP address and network port pairs for up to 10 collectors. |
After applying the following manifest to the CNO, the Operator configures Open vSwitch (OVS) on each node in the cluster to send network flows records to the NetFlow collector that is listening at 192.168.1.99:2056
.
Example configuration for tracking network flows
apiVersion: operator.openshift.io/v1 kind: Network metadata: name: cluster spec: exportNetworkFlows: netFlow: collectors: - 192.168.1.99:2056
23.16.2. Adding destinations for network flows collectors
As a cluster administrator, you can configure the Cluster Network Operator (CNO) to send network flows metadata about the pod network to a network flows collector.
Prerequisites
-
You installed the OpenShift CLI (
oc
). -
You are logged in to the cluster with a user with
cluster-admin
privileges. - You have a network flows collector and know the IP address and port that it listens on.
Procedure
Create a patch file that specifies the network flows collector type and the IP address and port information of the collectors:
spec: exportNetworkFlows: netFlow: collectors: - 192.168.1.99:2056
Configure the CNO with the network flows collectors:
$ oc patch network.operator cluster --type merge -p "$(cat <file_name>.yaml)"
Example output
network.operator.openshift.io/cluster patched
Verification
Verification is not typically necessary. You can run the following command to confirm that Open vSwitch (OVS) on each node is configured to send network flows records to one or more collectors.
View the Operator configuration to confirm that the
exportNetworkFlows
field is configured:$ oc get network.operator cluster -o jsonpath="{.spec.exportNetworkFlows}"
Example output
{"netFlow":{"collectors":["192.168.1.99:2056"]}}
View the network flows configuration in OVS from each node:
$ for pod in $(oc get pods -n openshift-ovn-kubernetes -l app=ovnkube-node -o jsonpath='{range@.items[*]}{.metadata.name}{"\n"}{end}'); do ; echo; echo $pod; oc -n openshift-ovn-kubernetes exec -c ovnkube-node $pod \ -- bash -c 'for type in ipfix sflow netflow ; do ovs-vsctl find $type ; done'; done
Example output
ovnkube-node-xrn4p _uuid : a4d2aaca-5023-4f3d-9400-7275f92611f9 active_timeout : 60 add_id_to_interface : false engine_id : [] engine_type : [] external_ids : {} targets : ["192.168.1.99:2056"] ovnkube-node-z4vq9 _uuid : 61d02fdb-9228-4993-8ff5-b27f01a29bd6 active_timeout : 60 add_id_to_interface : false engine_id : [] engine_type : [] external_ids : {} targets : ["192.168.1.99:2056"]- ...
23.16.3. Deleting all destinations for network flows collectors
As a cluster administrator, you can configure the Cluster Network Operator (CNO) to stop sending network flows metadata to a network flows collector.
Prerequisites
-
You installed the OpenShift CLI (
oc
). -
You are logged in to the cluster with a user with
cluster-admin
privileges.
Procedure
Remove all network flows collectors:
$ oc patch network.operator cluster --type='json' \ -p='[{"op":"remove", "path":"/spec/exportNetworkFlows"}]'
Example output
network.operator.openshift.io/cluster patched
23.16.4. Additional resources
23.17. Configuring hybrid networking
As a cluster administrator, you can configure the OVN-Kubernetes Container Network Interface (CNI) cluster network provider to allow Linux and Windows nodes to host Linux and Windows workloads, respectively.
23.17.1. Configuring hybrid networking with OVN-Kubernetes
You can configure your cluster to use hybrid networking with OVN-Kubernetes. This allows a hybrid cluster that supports different node networking configurations. For example, this is necessary to run both Linux and Windows nodes in a cluster.
You must configure hybrid networking with OVN-Kubernetes during the installation of your cluster. You cannot switch to hybrid networking after the installation process.
Prerequisites
-
You defined
OVNKubernetes
for thenetworking.networkType
parameter in theinstall-config.yaml
file. See the installation documentation for configuring OpenShift Container Platform network customizations on your chosen cloud provider for more information.
Procedure
Change to the directory that contains the installation program and create the manifests:
$ ./openshift-install create manifests --dir <installation_directory>
where:
<installation_directory>
-
Specifies the name of the directory that contains the
install-config.yaml
file for your cluster.
Create a stub manifest file for the advanced network configuration that is named
cluster-network-03-config.yml
in the<installation_directory>/manifests/
directory:$ cat <<EOF > <installation_directory>/manifests/cluster-network-03-config.yml apiVersion: operator.openshift.io/v1 kind: Network metadata: name: cluster spec: EOF
where:
<installation_directory>
-
Specifies the directory name that contains the
manifests/
directory for your cluster.
Open the
cluster-network-03-config.yml
file in an editor and configure OVN-Kubernetes with hybrid networking, such as in the following example:Specify a hybrid networking configuration
apiVersion: operator.openshift.io/v1 kind: Network metadata: name: cluster spec: defaultNetwork: ovnKubernetesConfig: hybridOverlayConfig: hybridClusterNetwork: 1 - cidr: 10.132.0.0/14 hostPrefix: 23 hybridOverlayVXLANPort: 9898 2
- 1
- Specify the CIDR configuration used for nodes on the additional overlay network. The
hybridClusterNetwork
CIDR cannot overlap with theclusterNetwork
CIDR. - 2
- Specify a custom VXLAN port for the additional overlay network. This is required for running Windows nodes in a cluster installed on vSphere, and must not be configured for any other cloud provider. The custom port can be any open port excluding the default
4789
port. For more information on this requirement, see the Microsoft documentation on Pod-to-pod connectivity between hosts is broken.
NoteWindows Server Long-Term Servicing Channel (LTSC): Windows Server 2019 is not supported on clusters with a custom
hybridOverlayVXLANPort
value because this Windows server version does not support selecting a custom VXLAN port.-
Save the
cluster-network-03-config.yml
file and quit the text editor. -
Optional: Back up the
manifests/cluster-network-03-config.yml
file. The installation program deletes themanifests/
directory when creating the cluster.
Complete any further installation configurations, and then create your cluster. Hybrid networking is enabled when the installation process is finished.