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Chapter 1. About the OVN-Kubernetes network plugin
The OVN-Kubernetes Container Network Interface (CNI) plugin is the default networking solution for a MicroShift node. OVN-Kubernetes is a virtualized network for pods and services that is based on Open Virtual Network (OVN).
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Default network configuration and connections are applied automatically in MicroShift with the
microshift-networkingRPM during installation. - A node that uses the OVN-Kubernetes network plugin also runs Open vSwitch (OVS) on the node.
- OVN-K configures OVS on the node to implement the declared network configuration.
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Host physical interfaces are not bound by default to the OVN-K gateway bridge,
br-ex. You can use standard tools on the host for managing the default gateway, such as the Network Manager CLI (nmcli). - Changing the CNI is not supported on MicroShift.
Using configuration files or custom scripts, you can configure the following networking settings:
- You can use subnet CIDR ranges to allocate IP addresses to pods.
- You can change the maximum transmission unit (MTU) value.
- You can configure firewall ingress and egress.
- You can define network policies in the MicroShift node, including ingress and egress rules.
- You can use the MicroShift Multus plug-in to chain other CNI plugins.
- You can configure or remove the ingress router.
1.1. MicroShift networking configuration matrix Copiar o linkLink copiado para a área de transferência!
The following table summarizes the status of networking features and capabilities that are either present as defaults, supported for configuration, or not available with the MicroShift service:
| Network capability | Availability | Configuration supported |
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| Advertise address | Yes | Yes [1] |
| Kubernetes network policy | Yes | Yes |
| Kubernetes network policy logs | Not available | N/A |
| Load balancing | Yes | Yes |
| Multicast DNS | Yes | Yes [2] |
| Network proxies | Yes [3] | CRI-O |
| Network performance | Yes | MTU configuration |
| Egress IPs | Not available | N/A |
| Egress firewall | Not available | N/A |
| Egress router | Not available | N/A |
| Firewall | No [4] | Yes |
| Hardware offloading | Not available | N/A |
| Hybrid networking | Not available | N/A |
| IPsec encryption for intra-cluster communication | Not available | N/A |
| IPv6 | Not available [5] | N/A |
| Ingress router | Yes | Yes [6] |
| Multiple networks plug-in | Yes | Yes |
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If unset, the default value is set to the next immediate subnet after the service network. For example, when the service network is
10.43.0.0/16, theadvertiseAddressis set to10.44.0.0/32. -
You can use the multicast DNS protocol (mDNS) to allow name resolution and service discovery within a Local Area Network (LAN) using multicast exposed on the
5353/UDPport. - There is no built-in transparent proxying of egress traffic in MicroShift. Egress must be manually configured.
- Setting up the firewalld service is supported by RHEL for Edge.
- IPv6 is not supported. IPv6 can only be used by connecting to other networks with the MicroShift Multus CNI plugin.
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Configure by using the MicroShift
config.yamlfile.
1.1.1. Default settings Copiar o linkLink copiado para a área de transferência!
If you do not create a config.yaml file, default values are used. The following example shows the default configuration settings.
To see the default values, run the following command:
microshift show-config
$ microshift show-configCopy to Clipboard Copied! Toggle word wrap Toggle overflow Default values example output in YAML form
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- A string that specifies the IP address from which the API server is advertised to members of the cluster. The default value is calculated based on the address of the service network.
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- How long log files are kept before automatic deletion. The default value of
0in themaxFileAgeparameter means a log file is never deleted based on age. This value can be configured. - 3
- By default, when the
audit.logfile reaches themaxFileSizelimit, theaudit.logfile is rotated and MicroShift begins writing to a newaudit.logfile. This value can be configured. - 4
- The total number of log files kept. By default, MicroShift retains 10 log files. The oldest is deleted when an excess file is created. This value can be configured.
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- Logs only metadata for read and write requests; does not log request bodies except for OAuth access token requests. If you do not specify this field, the
Defaultprofile is used. - 6
- Subject Alternative Names for API server certificates.
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- Log verbosity. Valid values for this field are
Normal,Debug,Trace, orTraceAll. - 8
- By default,
etcduses as much memory as needed to handle the load on the system. However, in memory constrained systems, it might be preferred or necessary to limit the amount of memoryetcdcan to use at a given time. - 9
- Base domain of the cluster. All managed DNS records are subdomains of this base.
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- The
ingress.listenAddressvalue defaults to the entire network of the host. The valid configurable value is a list that can be either a single IP address or NIC name or multiple IP addresses and NIC names. - 11
- Default ports shown. Configurable. Valid values for both port entries are a single, unique port in the 1-65535 range. The values of the
ports.httpandports.httpsfields cannot be the same. - 12
- Describes how hostname claims across namespaces are handled. By default, allows routes to claim different paths of the same hostname across namespaces. Valid values are
StrictandInterNamespaceAllowed. SpecifyingStrictprevents routes in different namespaces from claiming the same hostname. If the value is deleted in a customized MicroShiftconfig.yaml, theInterNamespaceAllowedvalue is automatically set. - 13
- Default router status, can be
ManagedorRemoved. - 14
- The locations on the file system to scan for
kustomizationfiles to use to load manifests. Set to a list of paths to scan only those paths. Set to an empty list to disable loading manifests. The entries in the list can be glob patterns to match multiple subdirectories. - 15
- A block of IP addresses from which pod IP addresses are allocated. This field is immutable after installation.
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- A block of virtual IP addresses for Kubernetes services. IP address pool for services. A single entry is supported. This field is immutable after installation.
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- The port range allowed for Kubernetes services of type
NodePort. If not specified, the default range of 30000-32767 is used. Services without aNodePortspecified are automatically allocated one from this range. This parameter can be updated after the cluster is installed. - 18
- The name of the node. The default value is the hostname. If non-empty, this string is used to identify the node instead of the hostname. You cannot change this immutable setting after MicroShift starts for the first time.
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- The IP address of the node. The default value is the IP address of the default route.
1.2. Network features Copiar o linkLink copiado para a área de transferência!
Networking features available with MicroShift 4.16 include:
- Kubernetes network policy
- Dynamic node IP
- Custom gateway interface
- Second gateway interface
- Node network on specified host interface
- Blocking external access to NodePort service on specific host interfaces
Networking features not available with MicroShift 4.16:
- Egress IP/firewall/QoS: disabled
- Hybrid networking: not supported
- IPsec: not supported
- Hardware offload: not supported
1.3. IP forward Copiar o linkLink copiado para a área de transferência!
The host network sysctl net.ipv4.ip_forward kernel parameter is automatically enabled by the ovnkube-master container when started. This is required to forward incoming traffic to the CNI. For example, accessing the NodePort service from outside of a node fails if ip_forward is disabled.
1.4. Network performance optimizations Copiar o linkLink copiado para a área de transferência!
By default, three performance optimizations are applied to OVS services to minimize resource consumption:
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CPU affinity to
ovs-vswitchd.serviceandovsdb-server.service -
no-mlockalltoopenvswitch.service -
Limit handler and
revalidatorthreads toovs-vswitchd.service
1.5. MicroShift networking components and services Copiar o linkLink copiado para a área de transferência!
This brief overview describes networking components and their operation in MicroShift. The microshift-networking RPM is a package that automatically pulls in any networking-related dependencies and systemd services to initialize networking, for example, the microshift-ovs-init systemd service.
- NetworkManager
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NetworkManager is required to set up the initial gateway bridge on the MicroShift node. The NetworkManager and
NetworkManager-ovsRPM packages are installed as dependencies to themicroshift-networkingRPM package, which contains the necessary configuration files. NetworkManager in MicroShift uses thekeyfileplugin and is restarted after installation of themicroshift-networkingRPM package. - microshift-ovs-init
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The
microshift-ovs-init.serviceis installed by themicroshift-networkingRPM package as a dependent systemd service tomicroshift.service. It is responsible for setting up the OVS gateway bridge. - OVN containers
Two OVN-Kubernetes daemon sets are rendered and applied by MicroShift.
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ovnkube-master Includes the
northd,nbdb,sbdbandovnkube-mastercontainers. ovnkube-node The ovnkube-node includes the OVN-Controller container.
After MicroShift starts, the OVN-Kubernetes daemon sets are deployed in the
openshift-ovn-kubernetesnamespace.
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ovnkube-master Includes the
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OVN-Kubernetes manifests and startup logic are built into MicroShift. The systemd services and configurations included in the
microshift-networkingRPM are:-
/etc/NetworkManager/conf.d/microshift-nm.confforNetworkManager.service -
/etc/systemd/system/ovs-vswitchd.service.d/microshift-cpuaffinity.confforovs-vswitchd.service -
/etc/systemd/system/ovsdb-server.service.d/microshift-cpuaffinity.confforovs-server.service -
/usr/bin/configure-ovs-microshift.shformicroshift-ovs-init.service -
/usr/bin/configure-ovs.shformicroshift-ovs-init.service -
/etc/crio/crio.conf.d/microshift-ovn.conffor the CRI-O service
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1.6. Bridge mappings Copiar o linkLink copiado para a área de transferência!
Bridge mappings allow provider network traffic to reach the physical network. Traffic leaves the provider network and arrives at the br-int bridge. A patch port between br-int and br-ex then allows the traffic to traverse to and from the provider network and the edge network. Kubernetes pods are connected to the br-int bridge through virtual ethernet pair: one end of the virtual ethernet pair is attached to the pod namespace, and the other end is attached to the br-int bridge.
1.7. Network topology Copiar o linkLink copiado para a área de transferência!
OVN-Kubernetes provides an overlay-based networking implementation. This overlay includes an OVS-based implementation of Service and NetworkPolicy. The overlay network uses the Geneve (Generic Network Virtualization Encapsulation) tunnel protocol. The pod maximum transmission unit (MTU) for the Geneve tunnel is set to the default route MTU if it is not configured.
To configure the MTU, you must set an equal-to or less-than value than the MTU of the physical interface on the host. A less-than value for the MTU makes room for the required information that is added to the tunnel header before it is transmitted.
OVS runs as a systemd service on the MicroShift node. The OVS RPM package is installed as a dependency to the microshift-networking RPM package. OVS is started immediately when the microshift-networking RPM is installed.
Red Hat build of MicroShift network topology
1.7.1. Description of the OVN logical components of the virtualized network Copiar o linkLink copiado para a área de transferência!
- OVN node switch
A virtual switch named
<node-name>. The OVN node switch is named according to the hostname of the node.-
In this example, the
node-nameismicroshift-dev.
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In this example, the
- OVN cluster router
A virtual router named
ovn_cluster_router, also known as the distributed router.-
In this example, the node network is
10.42.0.0/16.
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In this example, the node network is
- OVN join switch
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A virtual switch named
join. - OVN gateway router
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A virtual router named
GR_<node-name>, also known as the external gateway router. - OVN external switch
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A virtual switch named
ext_<node-name>.
1.7.2. Description of the connections in the network topology figure Copiar o linkLink copiado para a área de transferência!
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The north-south traffic between the network service and the OVN external switch
ext_microshift-devis provided through the host kernel by the gateway bridgebr-ex. -
The OVN gateway router
GR_microshift-devis connected to the external network switchext_microshift-devthrough the logical router port 4. Port 4 is attached with the node IP address 192.168.122.14. The join switch
joinconnects the OVN gateway routerGR_microshift-devto the OVN cluster routerovn_cluster_router. The IP address range is 100.62.0.0/16.-
The OVN gateway router
GR_microshift-devconnects to the OVN join switchjointhrough the logical router port 3. Port 3 attaches with the internal IP address 100.64.0.2. -
The OVN cluster router
ovn_cluster_routerconnects to the join switchjointhrough the logical router port 2. Port 2 attaches with the internal IP address 100.64.0.1.
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The OVN gateway router
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The OVN cluster router
ovn_cluster_routerconnects to the node switchmicroshift-devthrough the logical router port 1. Port 1 is attached with the OVN cluster network IP address 10.42.0.1. -
The east-west traffic between the pods and the network service is provided by the OVN cluster router
ovn_cluster_routerand the node switchmicroshift-dev. The IP address range is 10.42.0.0/24. -
The east-west traffic between pods is provided by the node switch
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The north-south traffic between the pods and the external network is provided by the OVN cluster router
ovn_cluster_routerand the host network. This router is connected through theovn-kubernetesmanagement portovn-k8s-mp0, with the IP address 10.42.0.2. All the pods are connected to the OVN node switch through their interfaces.
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In this example, Pod 1 and Pod 2 are connected to the node switch through
Interface 1andInterface 2.
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In this example, Pod 1 and Pod 2 are connected to the node switch through