kube-ovn.md

Kube-OVN

Kube-OVN integrates the OVN-based Network Virtualization with Kubernetes. It offers an advanced Container Network Fabric for Enterprises.

For more information please check Kube-OVN documentation

Warning: Kernel version (cat /proc/version) needs to be different than 3.10.0-862 or kube-ovn won't start and will print this message:

kernel version 3.10.0-862 has a nat related bug that will affect ovs function, please update to a version greater than 3.10.0-898

How to use it

Enable kube-ovn in group_vars/k8s-cluster/k8s-cluster.yml

...
kube_network_plugin: kube-ovn
...

Verifying kube-ovn install

Kube-OVN run ovn and controller in kube-ovn namespace

• Check the status of kube-ovn pods

# From the CLI
kubectl get pod -n kube-ovn

# Output
NAME                                   READY   STATUS    RESTARTS   AGE
kube-ovn-cni-49lsm                     1/1     Running   0          2d20h
kube-ovn-cni-9db8f                     1/1     Running   0          2d20h
kube-ovn-cni-wftdk                     1/1     Running   0          2d20h
kube-ovn-controller-68d7bb48bd-7tnvg   1/1     Running   0          2d21h
ovn-central-6675dbb7d9-d7z8m           1/1     Running   0          4d16h
ovs-ovn-hqn8p                          1/1     Running   0          4d16h
ovs-ovn-hvpl8                          1/1     Running   0          4d16h
ovs-ovn-r5frh                          1/1     Running   0          4d16h

• Check the default and node subnet

# From the CLI
kubectl get subnet

# Output
NAME          PROTOCOL   CIDR            PRIVATE   NAT
join          IPv4       100.64.0.0/16   false     false
ovn-default   IPv4       10.16.0.0/16    false     true