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Configuring egress IPs for a project

Egress IP address assignment for project egress traffic

By configuring an egress IP address for a project, all outgoing external connections from the specified project will share the same, fixed source IP address. External resources can recognize traffic from a particular project based on the egress IP address. An egress IP address assigned to a project is different from the egress router, which is used to send traffic to specific destinations.

Egress IP addresses are implemented as additional IP addresses on the primary network interface of the node and must be in the same subnet as the node’s primary IP address.

Egress IP addresses must not be configured in any Linux network configuration files, such as ifcfg-eth0.

Allowing additional IP addresses on the primary network interface might require extra configuration when using some cloud or VM solutions.

You can assign egress IP addresses to namespaces by setting the egressIPs parameter of the NetNamespace resource. After an egress IP is associated with a project, OpenShift SDN allows you to assign egress IPs to hosts in two ways:

  • In the automatically assigned approach, an egress IP address range is assigned to a node.

  • In the manually assigned approach, a list of one or more egress IP address is assigned to a node.

Namespaces that request an egress IP address are matched with nodes that can host those egress IP addresses, and then the egress IP addresses are assigned to those nodes. If the egressIPs parameter is set on a NetNamespace resource, but no node hosts that egress IP address, then egress traffic from the namespace will be dropped.

High availability of nodes is automatic. If a node that hosts an egress IP address is unreachable and there are nodes that are able to host that egress IP address, then the egress IP address will move to a new node. When the unreachable node comes back online, the egress IP address automatically moves to balance egress IP addresses across nodes.

You cannot use manually assigned and automatically assigned egress IP addresses on the same nodes. If you manually assign egress IP addresses from an IP address range, you must not make that range available for automatic IP assignment.

Considerations when using automatically assigned egress IP addresses

When using the automatic assignment approach for egress IP addresses the following considerations apply:

  • You set the egressCIDRs parameter of each node’s HostSubnet resource to indicate the range of egress IP addresses that can be hosted by a node. OpenShift Container Platform sets the egressIPs parameter of the HostSubnet resource based on the IP address range you specify.

  • Only a single egress IP address per namespace is supported when using the automatic assignment mode.

If the node hosting the namespace’s egress IP address is unreachable, OpenShift Container Platform will reassign the egress IP address to another node with a compatible egress IP address range. The automatic assignment approach works best for clusters installed in environments with flexibility in associating additional IP addresses with nodes.

Considerations when using manually assigned egress IP addresses

When using the manual assignment approach for egress IP addresses the following considerations apply:

  • You set the egressIPs parameter of each node’s HostSubnet resource to indicate the IP addresses that can be hosted by a node.

  • Multiple egress IP addresses per namespace are supported.

When a namespace has multiple egress IP addresses, if the node hosting the first egress IP address is unreachable, OpenShift Container Platform will automatically switch to using the next available egress IP address until the first egress IP address is reachable again.

This approach is recommended for clusters installed in public cloud environments, where there can be limitations on associating additional IP addresses with nodes.

Configuring automatically assigned egress IP addresses for a namespace

In OpenShift Container Platform you can enable automatic assignment of an egress IP address for a specific namespace across one or more nodes.

Prerequisites

  • Install the OpenShift CLI (oc).

  • Access to the cluster as a user with the cluster-admin role.

Procedure

  1. Update the NetNamespace resource with the egress IP address using the following JSON:

     $ oc patch netnamespace <project_name> --type=merge -p \ (1)
  '{
    "egressIPs": [
      "<ip_address>" (2)
    ]
  }'
    1 Specify the name of the project.
    2 Specify a single egress IP address. Using multiple IP addresses is not supported.

    For example, to assign project1 to an IP address of 192.168.1.100 and project2 to an IP address of 192.168.1.101:

    $ oc patch netnamespace project1 --type=merge -p \
  '{"egressIPs": ["192.168.1.100"]}'
$ oc patch netnamespace project2 --type=merge -p \
  '{"egressIPs": ["192.168.1.101"]}'

  2. Indicate which nodes can host egress IP addresses by setting the egressCIDRs parameter for each host using the following JSON:

    $ oc patch hostsubnet <node_name> --type=merge -p \ (1)
  '{
    "egressCIDRs": [
      "<ip_address_range_1>", "<ip_address_range_2>" (2)
    ]
  }'
    1 Specify a node name.
    2 Specify one or more IP address ranges in CIDR format.

    For example, to set node1 and node2 to host egress IP addresses in the range 192.168.1.0 to 192.168.1.255:

    $ oc patch hostsubnet node1 --type=merge -p \
  '{"egressCIDRs": ["192.168.1.0/24"]}'
$ oc patch hostsubnet node2 --type=merge -p \
  '{"egressCIDRs": ["192.168.1.0/24"]}'

    OpenShift Container Platform automatically assigns specific egress IP addresses to available nodes in a balanced way. In this case, it assigns the egress IP address 192.168.1.100 to node1 and the egress IP address 192.168.1.101 to node2 or vice versa.

Configuring manually assigned egress IP addresses for a namespace

In OpenShift Container Platform you can associate one or more egress IP addresses with a namespace.

Prerequisites

  • Install the OpenShift CLI (oc).

  • Access to the cluster as a user with the cluster-admin role.

Procedure

  1. Update the NetNamespace resource by specifying the following JSON object with the desired IP addresses:

    $ oc patch netnamespace <project> --type=merge -p \ (1)
  '{
    "egressIPs": [ (2)
      "<ip_address>"
      ]
  }'
    1 Specify the name of the project.
    2 Specify one or more egress IP addresses. The egressIPs parameter is an array.

    For example, to assign the project1 project to an IP address of 192.168.1.100:

    $ oc patch netnamespace project1 --type=merge \
  -p '{"egressIPs": ["192.168.1.100"]}'

    You can set egressIPs to two or more IP addresses on different nodes to provide high availability. If multiple egress IP addresses are set, pods use the first IP in the list for egress, but if the node hosting that IP address fails, pods switch to using the next IP in the list after a short delay.

  2. Manually assign the egress IP to the node hosts. Set the egressIPs parameter on the HostSubnet object on the node host. Using the following JSON, include as many IPs as you want to assign to that node host:

    $ oc patch hostsubnet <node_name> --type=merge -p \ (1)
  '{
    "egressIPs": [ (2)
      "<ip_address_1>",
      "<ip_address_N>"
      ]
  }'
    1 Specify the name of the node.
    2 Specify one or more egress IP addresses. The egressIPs field is an array.

    For example, to specify that node1 should have the egress IPs 192.168.1.100, 192.168.1.101, and 192.168.1.102:

    $ oc patch hostsubnet node1 --type=merge -p \
  '{"egressIPs": ["192.168.1.100", "192.168.1.101", "192.168.1.102"]}'

    In the previous example, all egress traffic for project1 will be routed to the node hosting the specified egress IP, and then connected (using NAT) to that IP address.