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Pod networking
Now, we know how kubelet runs containers and we know how to run pod without other kubernetes cluster components.
Let's experiment with static pod a bit.
We will create static pod, but this time we will run nginx, instead of busybox
cat <<EOF> /etc/kubernetes/manifests/static-nginx.yml
apiVersion: v1
kind: Pod
metadata:
name: static-nginx
labels:
app: static-nginx
spec:
hostNetwork: true
containers:
- name: nginx
image: ubuntu/nginx
EOF
After manifest created we can check wheather our nginx container is created
crictl pods
Output:
POD ID CREATED STATE NAME NAMESPACE ATTEMPT RUNTIME
14662195d6829 About a minute ago Ready static-nginx-example-server default 0 (default)
As we can see out nginx container is up and running. Let's check wheather it works as expected.
curl localhost
Output:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Welcome to nginx!</title>
<style>
html { color-scheme: light dark; }
body { width: 35em; margin: 0 auto;
font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; }
</style>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Welcome to nginx!</h1>
<p>If you see this page, the nginx web server is successfully installed and
working. Further configuration is required.</p>
<p>For online documentation and support please refer to
<a href="http://nginx.org/">nginx.org</a>.<br/>
Commercial support is available at
<a href="http://nginx.com/">nginx.com</a>.</p>
<p><em>Thank you for using nginx.</em></p>
</body>
</html>
Now, lets try to create 1 more nginx container.
cat <<EOF> /etc/kubernetes/manifests/static-nginx-2.yml
apiVersion: v1
kind: Pod
metadata:
name: static-nginx-2
labels:
app: static-nginx-2
spec:
hostNetwork: true
containers:
- name: nginx
image: ubuntu/nginx
EOF
Again will try to check if our pod is in running state.
crictl pods
Output:
POD ID CREATED STATE NAME NAMESPACE ATTEMPT RUNTIME
a299a86893e28 40 seconds ago Ready static-nginx-2-example-server default 0 (default)
14662195d6829 4 minutes ago Ready static-nginx-example-server default 0 (default)
Looks like out pod is up, but if we will try to check the underlying containers we may be surprised.
crictl ps -a
CONTAINER IMAGE CREATED STATE NAME ATTEMPT POD ID
9e8cb98b87aed 6efc10a0510f1 42 seconds ago Exited nginx 3 b013eca0e9d33
0e47618b39c09 6efc10a0510f1 4 minutes ago Running nginx 0 e8720dee2b08b
As you can see our second container is in exit state. To check the reason of the Exit state we can review container logs
crictl logs $(crictl ps -q -s Exited)
In the logs, you shoud see something like this
...
2023/04/18 20:49:47 [emerg] 1#1: bind() to 0.0.0.0:80 failed (98: Address already in use)
nginx: [emerg] bind() to 0.0.0.0:80 failed (98: Address already in use)
...
As we can see, the reason of the exit state - adress already in use. Our address already in use by our other container.
We received this error because we run two pods which require an access to the same port on our server. This was done by specifying
...
spec:
hostNetwork: true
...
This option runs our container on our host without any network isolation (almost the same as running two nginx without on the same host without containers)
Now we will try to update our pod manifests to run our containers in separate network "namespaces"
{
cat <<EOF> /etc/kubernetes/manifests/static-nginx.yml
apiVersion: v1
kind: Pod
metadata:
name: static-nginx
labels:
app: static-nginx
spec:
containers:
- name: nginx
image: ubuntu/nginx
EOF
cat <<EOF> /etc/kubernetes/manifests/static-nginx-2.yml
apiVersion: v1
kind: Pod
metadata:
name: static-nginx-2
labels:
app: static-nginx-2
spec:
containers:
- name: nginx
image: ubuntu/nginx
EOF
}
As you can see we simply removed hostNetwork: true configuration option.
So, lets check what we have
crictl pods
Output:
POD ID CREATED STATE NAME NAMESPACE ATTEMPT RUNTIME
Very strange, we see nothing. To define the reason why no pods created lets review the kubelet logs (but as we know what we are looking for, we will chit a bit)
journalctl -u kubelet | grep NetworkNotReady
Output:
...
May 03 13:43:43 example-server kubelet[23701]: I0503 13:43:43.862719 23701 event.go:291] "Event occurred" object="default/static-nginx-example-server" kind="Pod" apiVersion="v1" type="Warning" reason="NetworkNotReady" message="network is not ready: container runtime network not ready: NetworkReady=false reason:NetworkPluginNotReady message:Network plugin returns error: cni plugin not initialized"
...
As we can see cni plugin is not initialized. But what is cni plugin.
CNI stands for Container Networking Interface. It is a standard for defining how network connectivity is established and managed between containers, as well as between containers and the host system in a container runtime environment. Kubernetes uses CNI plugins to implement networking for pods.
A CNI plugin is a binary executable that is responsible for configuring the network interfaces and routes of a container or pod. It communicates with the container runtime (such as Docker or CRI-O) to set up networking for the container or pod.
As we can see kubelet can't configure network for pod by himself (or with the help of containerd). Same as with containers, to configure network kubelet use some 'protocol' to communicate with 'someone' who can configure networ.
Now, we will configure the cni plugin for our kubelet.
First of all we need to download that plugin
wget -q --show-progress --https-only --timestamping \
https://github.com/containernetworking/plugins/releases/download/v0.9.1/cni-plugins-linux-amd64-v0.9.1.tgz
Now, we will create proper folders structure for our plugin
sudo mkdir -p \
/etc/cni/net.d \
/opt/cni/bin
here:
- net.d - folder where we will store our plugin configuration files
- bin - folder for plugin binaries
Now, we will untar our plugin to proper folder
sudo tar -xvf cni-plugins-linux-amd64-v0.9.1.tgz -C /opt/cni/bin/
And create plugin configuration
{
cat <<EOF | sudo tee /etc/cni/net.d/10-bridge.conf
{
"cniVersion": "0.4.0",
"name": "bridge",
"type": "bridge",
"bridge": "cnio0",
"isGateway": true,
"ipMasq": true,
"ipam": {
"type": "host-local",
"ranges": [
[{"subnet": "10.240.1.0/24"}]
],
"routes": [{"dst": "0.0.0.0/0"}]
}
}
EOF
cat <<EOF | sudo tee /etc/cni/net.d/99-loopback.conf
{
"cniVersion": "0.4.0",
"name": "lo",
"type": "loopback"
}
EOF
}
Of course all configuration options here important, but I want to highlight 2 of them:
- ranges - information about subnets from shich ip addresses will be assigned for our pods
- routes - information on how to route trafic between nodes, as we have single node kubernetes cluster the configuration is very easy
Update our kubelet config (add network-plugin configuration option)
cat <<EOF | sudo tee /etc/systemd/system/kubelet.service
[Unit]
Description=kubelet: The Kubernetes Node Agent
Documentation=https://kubernetes.io/docs/home/
Wants=network-online.target
After=network-online.target
[Service]
ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/kubelet \\
--container-runtime=remote \\
--container-runtime-endpoint=unix:///var/run/containerd/containerd.sock \\
--image-pull-progress-deadline=2m \\
--file-check-frequency=10s \\
--network-plugin=cni \\
--pod-manifest-path='/etc/kubernetes/manifests/' \\
--v=10
Restart=always
StartLimitInterval=0
RestartSec=10
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
EOF
After kubelet reconfigured, we can restart it
{
sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl restart kubelet
}
And check kubelet status
sudo systemctl status kubelet
Output:
● kubelet.service - kubelet: The Kubernetes Node Agent
Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/kubelet.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
Active: active (running) since Wed 2023-05-03 13:53:03 UTC; 15s ago
Docs: https://kubernetes.io/docs/home/
Main PID: 86730 (kubelet)
Tasks: 13 (limit: 2275)
Memory: 46.8M
CGroup: /system.slice/kubelet.service
└─86730 /usr/local/bin/kubelet --container-runtime=remote --container-runtime-endpoint=unix:///var/run/containerd/containerd.sock --image-pull-progress-deadline=2m --file-che>
Now, after all fixes applyed and we have working kubelet, we can check wheather our pods created
crictl pods
Outout:
POD ID CREATED STATE NAME NAMESPACE ATTEMPT RUNTIME
45feb5b5be77c 2 minutes ago Ready static-nginx-2-example-server default 0 (default)
b9c684fa20082 2 minutes ago Ready static-nginx-example-server default 0 (default)
Pods are ok, but what about containers
crictl ps
Output:
CONTAINER IMAGE CREATED STATE NAME ATTEMPT POD ID
6b1f7855bfdb1 6efc10a0510f1 3 minutes ago Running nginx 0 45feb5b5be77c
1dde689e499bb 6efc10a0510f1 3 minutes ago Running nginx 0 b9c684fa20082
They are also in running state
On this step if we will try to curl localhost nothing will happen. Our pods are runned in separate network namespaces, and each pod has its own ip address. We need to define it.
{
PID=$(crictl pods --label app=static-nginx-2 -q)
CID=$(crictl ps -q --pod $PID)
crictl exec $CID ip a
}
Output:
...
3: cnio0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc noqueue state UP group default qlen 1000
link/ether c2:44:0d:6d:17:61 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
inet 10.240.1.1/24 brd 10.240.1.255 scope global cnio0
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
inet6 fe80::c044:dff:fe6d:1761/64 scope link
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
...
During the plugin configuration we remember that we configure the subnet pod our pods to be 10.240.1.0/24. So, the container received its IP from the range specified, in my case it was 10.240.1.1.
So, lets try to curl our container.
{
PID=$(crictl pods --label app=static-nginx-2 -q)
CID=$(crictl ps -q --pod $PID)
IP=$(crictl exec $CID ip a | grep 240 | awk '{print $2}' | cut -f1 -d'/')
curl $IP
}
Output:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Welcome to nginx!</title>
<style>
html { color-scheme: light dark; }
body { width: 35em; margin: 0 auto;
font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; }
</style>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Welcome to nginx!</h1>
<p>If you see this page, the nginx web server is successfully installed and
working. Further configuration is required.</p>
<p>For online documentation and support please refer to
<a href="http://nginx.org/">nginx.org</a>.<br/>
Commercial support is available at
<a href="http://nginx.com/">nginx.com</a>.</p>
<p><em>Thank you for using nginx.</em></p>
</body>
</html>
As we can see we successfully reached out container from our host.
But we remember that cni plugin also responsible to configure communication between containers. Lets check
To do that we will run 1 more pod with busybox inside
cat <<EOF> /etc/kubernetes/manifests/static-pod.yml
apiVersion: v1
kind: Pod
metadata:
name: static-pod
labels:
app: static-pod
spec:
hostNetwork: true
containers:
- name: busybox
image: busybox
command: ["sh", "-c", "while true; do echo 'Hello from static pod'; sleep 5; done"]
EOF
Now, lets, check and ensure that pod created
crictl pods
Output:
POD ID CREATED STATE NAME NAMESPACE ATTEMPT RUNTIME
80047283230cc 21 seconds ago Ready static-pod-example-server default 0 (default)
a6881b7bba036 18 minutes ago Ready static-nginx-example-server default 0 (default)
4dd70fb8f5f53 18 minutes ago Ready static-nginx-2-example-server default 0 (default)
As pod is in running state, we can check wheather our other nging pods are available
{
PID=$(crictl pods --label app=static-nginx-2 -q)
CID=$(crictl ps -q --pod $PID)
IP=$(crictl exec $CID ip a | grep 240 | awk '{print $2}' | cut -f1 -d'/')
PID_0=$(crictl pods --label app=static-pod -q)
CID_0=$(crictl ps -q --pod $PID_0)
crictl exec $CID_0 wget -O - $IP
}
Output:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Welcome to nginx!</title>
<style>
html { color-scheme: light dark; }
body { width: 35em; margin: 0 auto;
font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; }
</style>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Welcome to nginx!</h1>
<p>If you see this page, the nginx web server is successfully installed and
working. Further configuration is required.</p>
<p>For online documentation and support please refer to
<a href="http://nginx.org/">nginx.org</a>.<br/>
Commercial support is available at
<a href="http://nginx.com/">nginx.com</a>.</p>
<p><em>Thank you for using nginx.</em></p>
</body>
</html>
Connecting to 10.240.1.4 (10.240.1.4:80)
writing to stdout
- 100% |********************************| 615 0:00:00 ETA
written to stdout
As we can see we successfully reached our container from busybox.
In this section we configured CNI plugin for our intallation and now we can run pods which can communicate with each other over the network.
In nest section we will procede with the kubernetes cluster configuration, but before, we need to clean up workspace.
rm /etc/kubernetes/manifests/static-*
And check if app pods are removed
crictl pods
Output:
POD ID CREATED STATE NAME NAMESPACE ATTEMPT RUNTIME
Next: ETCD