An IP Address Management (IPAM) CNI plugin designed to operate in a Kubernetes environment. This Plugins allows to assign IP addresses dynamically across the cluster while keeping speed and performance in mind.
NVIDIA IPAM plugin supports allocation of IP ranges and Network prefixes for nodes.
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IPPool CR can be used to create an IP Pool. This type of pool can be used to split a single IP network into multiple unique IP ranges and allocate them for nodes. The nodes will use the same network mask as the original IP network.
This pool type is useful for flat networks where Pods from all nodes have L2 connectivity with each other.
Example:
network: 192.168.0.0/16 gateway: 192.168.0.1 perNodeBlockSize: 4 (amount of IPs) node1 will allocate IPs from the following range: 192.168.0.1-192.168.0.4 (gateway is part of the range) node2 will allocate IPs from the following range: 192.168.0.5-192.168.0.8 First Pod on the node1 will get the following IP config: IP: 192.168.0.2/16 (gateway IP was skipped) Gateway: 192.168.0.1 First Pod on the node2 will get the following IP config: IP: 192.168.0.5/16 Gateway: 192.168.0.1 Pods from different nodes can have L2 connectivity. -
CIDRPool CR can be used to create a CIDR Pool. This type of pool can be used to split a large network into multiple unique smaller subnets and allocate them for nodes. Each node will have a specific gateway and network mask with a node's subnet size.
This pool type is useful for routed networks where Pods on each node should use unique subnets and node-specific gateways to communicate with Pods from other nodes.
Example:
cidr: 192.168.0.0/16 perNodeNetworkPrefix: 24 (subnet size) gatewayIndex: 1 node1 will allocate IPs from the following subnet: 192.168.0.0/24 node2 will allocate IPs from the following subnet: 192.168.1.0/24 First Pod on the node1 will get the following IP config: IP: 192.168.0.2/24 Gateway: 192.168.0.1 First Pod on the node2 will get the following IP config: IP: 192.168.1.2/24 Gateway: 192.168.1.1 Pods from different nodes don't have L2 connectivity, routing is required.
NVIDIA IPAM plugin currently support only IP allocation for K8s Secondary Networks. e.g Additional networks provided by multus CNI plugin.
This repository is in its first steps of development, APIs may change in a non backward compatible manner.
NVIDIA IPAM plugin consists of 3 main components:
- controller (ipam-controller)
- node daemon (ipam-node)
- IPAM CNI plugin (nv-ipam)
A Kubernetes(K8s) controller that Watches on IPPools and CIDRPools CRs in a predefined Namespace. It then proceeds by assiging each node via CR's Status a cluster unique range of IPs or subnet that is used by the ipam-node.
ipam-controller implements validation webhook for IPPool and CIDRPool resources. The webhook can prevent the creation of resources with invalid configurations. Supported X.509 certificate management system should be available in the cluster to enable the webhook. Currently supported systems are certmanager and Openshift certificate management
Activation of the validation webhook is optional. Check the Deployment section for details.
The daemon is responsible for:
- perform initial setup and installation of nv-ipam CNI plugin
- perform allocations of the IPs and persist them on the disk
- run periodic jobs, such as cleanup of the stale IP address allocations
A node daemon provides GRPC service, which nv-ipam CNI plugin uses to request IP address allocation/deallocation.
IPs are allocated from the provided IP Blocks and prefixes assigned by ipam-controller for the node. ipam-node watches K8s API for the IPPool and CIDRPool objects and extracts allocated ranges or prefixes from the status field.
An IPAM CNI plugin that handles CNI requests according to the CNI spec. To allocate/deallocate IP address nv-ipam calls GRPC API of ipam-node daemon.
- User (cluster administrator) defines a set of named IP Pools to be used for IP allocation of container interfaces via IPPool CRD (more information in Configuration section)
Example:
apiVersion: nv-ipam.nvidia.com/v1alpha1
kind: IPPool
metadata:
name: pool1
namespace: kube-system
spec:
subnet: 192.168.0.0/16
perNodeBlockSize: 24
gateway: 192.168.0.1
nodeSelector:
nodeSelectorTerms:
- matchExpressions:
- key: node-role.kubernetes.io/worker
operator: Exists- ipam-controller calculates and assigns unique IP Blocks for each Node via IPPool Status:
Example:
apiVersion: nv-ipam.nvidia.com/v1alpha1
kind: IPPool
metadata:
name: pool1
namespace: kube-system
spec:
gateway: 192.168.0.1
nodeSelector:
nodeSelectorTerms:
- matchExpressions:
- key: node-role.kubernetes.io/worker
operator: Exists
perNodeBlockSize: 24
subnet: 192.168.0.0/16
status:
allocations:
- endIP: 192.168.0.24
nodeName: host-a
startIP: 192.168.0.1
- endIP: 192.168.0.48
nodeName: host-b
startIP: 192.168.0.25
- endIP: 192.168.0.72
nodeName: host-c
startIP: 192.168.0.49
- endIP: 192.168.0.96
nodeName: k8s-master
startIP: 192.168.0.73
- User specifies nv-ipam as IPAM plugin in CNI configuration
Example macvlan CNI configuration:
{
"type": "macvlan",
"cniVersion": "0.3.1",
"master": "enp3s0f0np0",
"mode": "bridge",
"ipam": {
"type": "nv-ipam",
"poolName": "pool1"
}
}- nv-ipam plugin, as a result of CNI ADD command allocates a free IP from the IP Block of the corresponding IP Pool that was allocated for the node
- User (cluster administrator) defines a set of named CIDR Pools to be used for prefix allocation of container interfaces via CIDRPool CRD (more information in Configuration section)
Example:
apiVersion: nv-ipam.nvidia.com/v1alpha1
kind: CIDRPool
metadata:
name: pool1
namespace: kube-system
spec:
cidr: 192.168.0.0/16
gatewayIndex: 1
perNodeNetworkPrefix: 24
nodeSelector:
nodeSelectorTerms:
- matchExpressions:
- key: node-role.kubernetes.io/worker
operator: Exists
- ipam-controller calculates and assigns unique subnets (with
perNodeNetworkPrefixsize) for each Node via CIDRPool Status:
Example:
apiVersion: nv-ipam.nvidia.com/v1alpha1
kind: CIDRPool
metadata:
name: pool1
namespace: kube-system
spec:
cidr: 192.168.0.0/16
gatewayIndex: 1
perNodeNetworkPrefix: 24
nodeSelector:
nodeSelectorTerms:
- matchExpressions:
- key: node-role.kubernetes.io/worker
operator: Exists
status:
allocations:
- gateway: 192.168.0.1
nodeName: host-a
prefix: 192.168.0.0/24
- gateway: 192.168.1.1
nodeName: host-b
prefix: 192.168.1.0/24
- User specifies nv-ipam as IPAM plugin in CNI configuration
Example macvlan CNI configuration:
{
"type": "macvlan",
"cniVersion": "0.3.1",
"master": "enp3s0f0np0",
"mode": "bridge",
"ipam": {
"type": "nv-ipam",
"poolName": "pool1",
"poolType": "cidrpool"
}
}- nv-ipam plugin, as a result of CNI ADD command allocates a free IP from the prefix that was allocated for the node
ipam-controller accepts configuration using command line flags and IPPools CRs.
Logging flags:
--log-flush-frequency duration
Maximum number of seconds between log flushes (default 5s)
--log-json-info-buffer-size quantity
[Alpha] In JSON format with split output streams, the info messages can be buffered for a while to increase performance. The default value of zero bytes disables buffering. The size can
be specified as number of bytes (512), multiples of 1000 (1K), multiples of 1024 (2Ki), or powers of those (3M, 4G, 5Mi, 6Gi). Enable the LoggingAlphaOptions feature gate to use this.
--log-json-split-stream
[Alpha] In JSON format, write error messages to stderr and info messages to stdout. The default is to write a single stream to stdout. Enable the LoggingAlphaOptions feature gate to use
this.
--logging-format string
Sets the log format. Permitted formats: "json" (gated by LoggingBetaOptions), "text". (default "text")
-v, --v Level
number for the log level verbosity
--vmodule pattern=N,...
comma-separated list of pattern=N settings for file-filtered logging (only works for text log format)
Common flags:
--feature-gates mapStringBool
A set of key=value pairs that describe feature gates for alpha/experimental features. Options are:
AllAlpha=true|false (ALPHA - default=false)
AllBeta=true|false (BETA - default=false)
ContextualLogging=true|false (ALPHA - default=false)
LoggingAlphaOptions=true|false (ALPHA - default=false)
LoggingBetaOptions=true|false (BETA - default=true)
--version
print binary version and exit
Controller flags:
--health-probe-bind-address string
The address the probe endpoint binds to. (default ":8081")
--ippools-namespace string
The name of the namespace to watch for IPPools CRs (default "kube-system")
--kubeconfig string
Paths to a kubeconfig. Only required if out-of-cluster.
--leader-elect
Enable leader election for controller manager. Enabling this will ensure there is only one active controller manager.
--leader-elect-namespace string
Determines the namespace in which the leader election resource will be created. (default "kube-system")
--metrics-bind-address string
The address the metric endpoint binds to. (default ":8080")
--webhook
Enable validating webhook server as a part of the controller
ipam-controller accepts IP Pools configuration via IPPool CRs. Multiple IPPool CRs can be created, with different NodeSelectors.
apiVersion: nv-ipam.nvidia.com/v1alpha1
kind: IPPool
metadata:
name: pool1
namespace: kube-system
spec:
subnet: 192.168.0.0/16
perNodeBlockSize: 100
gateway: 192.168.0.1
exclusions: # optional
- startIP: 192.168.0.10
endIP: 192.168.0.20
nodeSelector:
nodeSelectorTerms:
- matchExpressions:
- key: node-role.kubernetes.io/worker
operator: Exists
defaultGateway: true # optional
routes: # optional
- dst: 5.5.0.0/24apiVersion: nv-ipam.nvidia.com/v1alpha1
kind: IPPool
metadata:
name: pool2
namespace: kube-system
spec:
subnet: fd52:2eb5:44::/48
perNodeBlockSize: 500
gateway: fd52:2eb5:44::1
nodeSelector:
nodeSelectorTerms:
- matchExpressions:
- key: node-role.kubernetes.io/worker
operator: Existsspec: contains the IP pool configuration.-
subnet: IP Subnet of the pool. -
gateway(optional): Gateway IP of the subnet. -
perNodeBlockSize: the number of IPs of IP Blocks allocated to Nodes. -
exclusions(optional, list): contains reserved IP addresses that should not be allocated by nv-ipam node component.startIP: start IP of the exclude range (inclusive).endIP: end IP of the exclude range (inclusive).
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nodeSelector(optional): A list of node selector terms. The terms are ORed. Each term can have a list of matchExpressions that are ANDed. Only the nodes that match the provided labels will get assigned IP Blocks for the defined pool. -
defaultGateway(optional): Add the pool gateway as default gateway in the pod static routes. -
routes(optional, list): contains CIDR to be added in the pod static routes via the pool gateway.dst: The destination of the static route, in CIDR notation.
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Notes:
- pool name is composed of alphanumeric letters separated by dots(
.) underscores(_) or hyphens(-).perNodeBlockSizeminimum size is 1.subnetmust be large enough to accommodate at least oneperNodeBlockSizeblock of IPs.
ipam-controller accepts CIDR Pools configuration via CIDRPool CRs. Multiple CIDRPool CRs can be created, with different NodeSelectors.
apiVersion: nv-ipam.nvidia.com/v1alpha1
kind: CIDRPool
metadata:
name: pool1
namespace: kube-system
spec:
cidr: 192.168.0.0/16
gatewayIndex: 1
perNodeNetworkPrefix: 24
exclusions: # optional
- startIP: 192.168.0.10
endIP: 192.168.0.20
staticAllocations:
- nodeName: node-33
prefix: 192.168.33.0/24
gateway: 192.168.33.10
- prefix: 192.168.1.0/24
nodeSelector: # optional
nodeSelectorTerms:
- matchExpressions:
- key: node-role.kubernetes.io/worker
operator: Exists
defaultGateway: true # optional
routes: # optional
- dst: 5.5.0.0/24apiVersion: nv-ipam.nvidia.com/v1alpha1
kind: CIDRPool
metadata:
name: pool1
namespace: kube-system
spec:
cidr: fd52:2eb5:44::/48
gatewayIndex: 1
perNodeNetworkPrefix: 120
nodeSelector: # optional
nodeSelectorTerms:
- matchExpressions:
- key: node-role.kubernetes.io/worker
operator: Exists
apiVersion: nv-ipam.nvidia.com/v1alpha1
kind: CIDRPool
metadata:
name: pool1
namespace: kube-system
spec:
cidr: 192.168.100.0/24
perNodeNetworkPrefix: 31spec: contains the CIDR pool configuration.-
cidr: pool's CIDR block which will be split to smaller prefixes(size is define in perNodePrefixSize) and distributed between matching nodes. -
gatewayIndex(optional):not set- no gateway, if set automatically use IP with this index from the host prefix as a gateway. -
perNodeNetworkPrefix: size of the network prefix for each host, the network defined incidrfield will be split to multiple networks with this size. -
exclusions(optional, list): contains reserved IP addresses that should not be allocated by nv-ipam node component.startIP: start IP of the exclude range (inclusive).endIP: end IP of the exclude range (inclusive).
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staticAllocations(optional, list): static allocations for the pool.nodeName(optional): name of the node for static allocation, can be empty in case if the prefix should be preallocated without assigning it for a specific node.gateway(optional): gateway for the node, if not set the gateway will be computed fromgatewayIndex.prefix: statically allocated prefix.
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nodeSelector(optional): A list of node selector terms. The terms are ORed. Each term can have a list of matchExpressions that are ANDed. Only the nodes that match the provided labels will get assigned IP Blocks for the defined pool. -
defaultGateway(optional): Add the pool gateway as default gateway in the pod static routes. -
routes(optional, list): contains CIDR to be added in the pod static routes via the pool gateway.dst: The destination of the static route, in CIDR notation.
-
Notes:
- pool name is composed of alphanumeric letters separated by dots(
.) underscores(_) or hyphens(-).perNodeNetworkPrefixmust be equal or smaller (more network bits) then the size of pool'scidr.
ipam-node accepts configuration via command line flags.
Options that begins with the cni- prefix are used to create the config file for nv-ipam CNI.
All other options are for the ipam-node daemon itself.
Logging flags:
--log-flush-frequency duration
Maximum number of seconds between log flushes (default 5s)
--log-json-info-buffer-size quantity
[Alpha] In JSON format with split output streams, the info messages can be buffered for a while to increase performance. The default value of zero bytes disables buffering. The size
can be specified as number of bytes (512), multiples of 1000 (1K), multiples of 1024 (2Ki), or powers of those (3M, 4G, 5Mi, 6Gi). Enable the LoggingAlphaOptions feature gate to use this.
--log-json-split-stream
[Alpha] In JSON format, write error messages to stderr and info messages to stdout. The default is to write a single stream to stdout. Enable the LoggingAlphaOptions feature gate to
use this.
--logging-format string
Sets the log format. Permitted formats: "json" (gated by LoggingBetaOptions), "text". (default "text")
-v, --v Level
number for the log level verbosity
--vmodule pattern=N,...
comma-separated list of pattern=N settings for file-filtered logging (only works for text log format)
Common flags:
--feature-gates mapStringBool
A set of key=value pairs that describe feature gates for alpha/experimental features. Options are:
AllAlpha=true|false (ALPHA - default=false)
AllBeta=true|false (BETA - default=false)
ContextualLogging=true|false (ALPHA - default=false)
LoggingAlphaOptions=true|false (ALPHA - default=false)
LoggingBetaOptions=true|false (BETA - default=true)
--version
print binary version and exit
Node daemon flags:
--bind-address string
GPRC server bind address. e.g.: tcp://127.0.0.1:9092, unix:///var/lib/foo (default "unix:///var/lib/cni/nv-ipam/daemon.sock")
--health-probe-bind-address string
The address the probe endpoint binds to. (default ":8081")
--kubeconfig string
Paths to a kubeconfig. Only required if out-of-cluster.
--metrics-bind-address string
The address the metric endpoint binds to. (default ":8080")
--node-name string
The name of the Node on which the daemon runs
--store-file string
Path of the file which used to store allocations (default "/var/lib/cni/nv-ipam/store")
--ippools-namespace string
The name of the namespace to watch for IPPools CRs. (default "kube-system")
Shim CNI Configuration flags:
--cni-bin-dir string
CNI binary directory (default "/opt/cni/bin")
--cni-conf-dir string
shim CNI config: path with config file (default "/etc/cni/net.d/nv-ipam.d")
--cni-daemon-call-timeout int
shim CNI config: timeout for IPAM daemon calls (default 5)
--cni-daemon-socket string
shim CNI config: IPAM daemon socket path (default "unix:///var/lib/cni/nv-ipam/daemon.sock")
--cni-force-pool-name
shim CNI config: force specifying pool name in CNI configuration
--cni-log-file string
shim CNI config: path to log file for shim CNI (default "/var/log/nv-ipam-cni.log")
--cni-log-level string
shim CNI config: log level for shim CNI (default "info")
--cni-nv-ipam-bin-file string
nv-ipam binary file path (default "/nv-ipam")
--cni-skip-nv-ipam-binary-copy
skip nv-ipam binary file copy
--cni-skip-nv-ipam-config-creation
skip config file creation for nv-ipam CNI
nv-ipam accepts the following CNI configuration:
{
"type": "nv-ipam",
"forcePoolName" : false,
"poolName": "pool1,pool2",
"poolType": "ippool",
"daemonSocket": "unix:///var/lib/cni/nv-ipam/daemon.sock",
"daemonCallTimeoutSeconds": 5,
"confDir": "/etc/cni/net.d/nv-ipam.d",
"logFile": "/var/log/nv-ipam-cni.log",
"logLevel": "info"
}type(string, required): CNI plugin name, MUST be"nv-ipam"forcePoolName(bool, optional): force specifying pool name in CNI configuration.poolName(string, optional): name of the Pool to be used for IP allocation. It is possible to allocate two IPs for the interface from different pools by specifying pool names separated by coma, e.g."my-ipv4-pool,my-ipv6-pool". The primary intent to support multiple pools is a dual-stack use-case when an interface should have two IP addresses: one IPv4 and one IPv6. (default: network name as provided in CNI call)poolType(string, optional): type (ippool, cidrpool) of the pool which is referred by thepoolName. The field is case-insensitive. (default:"ippool")daemonSocket(string, optional): address of GRPC server socket served by IPAM daemondaemonCallTimeoutSeconds(integer, optional): timeout for GRPC calls to IPAM daemonconfDir(string, optional): path to configuration dir. (default:"/etc/cni/net.d/nv-ipam.d")logFile(string, optional): log file path. (default:"/var/log/nv-ipam-cni.log")logLevel(string, optional): logging level. one of:["verbose", "debug", "info", "warning", "error", "panic"]. (default:"info")
NOTE: These commands will deploy latest dev build with default configuration
The plugin can be deployed with kustomize.
Supported overlays are:
no-webhook - deploy without webhook
kubectl kustomize https://github.com/mellanox/nvidia-k8s-ipam/deploy/overlays/no-webhook?ref=main | kubectl apply -f -certmanager - deploy with webhook to the Kubernetes cluster where certmanager is available
kubectl kustomize https://github.com/mellanox/nvidia-k8s-ipam/deploy/overlays/certmanager?ref=main | kubectl apply -f -openshift - deploy with webhook to the Openshift cluster
kubectl kustomize https://github.com/mellanox/nvidia-k8s-ipam/deploy/overlays/openshift?ref=main | kubectl apply -f -kubectl get ippools.nv-ipam.nvidia.com -A -o jsonpath='{range .items[*]}{.metadata.name}{"\n"} {range .status.allocations[*]}{"\t"}{.nodeName} => Start IP: {.startIP} End IP: {.endIP}{"\n"}{end}{"\n"}{end}'
pool1
host-a => Start IP: 192.168.0.1 End IP: 192.168.0.24
host-b => Start IP: 192.168.0.25 End IP: 192.168.0.48
host-c => Start IP: 192.168.0.49 End IP: 192.168.0.72
k8s-master => Start IP: 192.168.0.73 End IP: 192.168.0.96
pool2
host-a => Start IP: 172.16.0.1 End IP: 172.16.0.50
host-b => Start IP: 172.16.0.51 End IP: 172.16.0.100
host-c => Start IP: 172.16.0.101 End IP: 172.16.0.150
k8s-master => Start IP: 172.16.0.151 End IP: 172.16.0.200kubectl get cidrpools.nv-ipam.nvidia.com -A -o jsonpath='{range .items[*]}{.metadata.name}{"\n"} {range .status.allocations[*]}{"\t"}{.nodeName} => Prefix: {.prefix} Gateway: {.gateway}{"\n"}{end}{"\n"}{end}'
pool1
host-a => Prefix: 10.0.0.0/24 Gateway: 10.0.0.1
host-b => Prefix: 10.0.1.0/24 Gateway: 10.0.2.1
kubectl get pods -o=custom-columns='NAME:metadata.name,NODE:spec.nodeName,NETWORK-STATUS:metadata.annotations.k8s\.v1\.cni\.cncf\.io/network-status'kubectl -n kube-system logs <nv-ipam-controller pod name>kubectl -n kube-system logs <nv-ipam-node-ds pod name>cat /var/log/nv-ipam-cni.logNote: It is recommended to increase log level to
"debug"when debugging CNI issues. This can be done by either editing CNI configuration (e.g editing NetworkAttachmentDefinition) or locally on a node by editing nv-ipam config file (default:/etc/init.d/nv-ipam.d/nv-ipam.conf
- Before removing a node from cluster, drain all workloads to ensure proper cleanup of IPs on node.
- IP Block allocated to a node with Gateway IP in its range will have one less IP than what defined in perNodeBlockSize, deployers should take this into account.
We welcome your feedback and contributions to this project. Please see the CONTRIBUTING.md for contribution guidelines.