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Available only as a Technology Preview feature in OpenShift Container Platform 4.5.
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Egress firewall is also known as egress network policy in OpenShift SDN. This is not the same as network policy egress.
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Does not support egress rules and some
ipBlockrules.
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- Architecture
- Installing
- Mirroring images for a disconnected installation
- Installing on AWS
- Configuring an AWS account
- Manually creating IAM
- Installing a cluster quickly on AWS
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- Installing a cluster on AWS in a restricted network
- Installing a cluster on AWS into an existing VPC
- Installing a private cluster on AWS
- Installing a cluster on AWS using CloudFormation templates
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- Installing on Azure
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- Installing a private cluster on Azure
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- Installing a cluster on GCP into an existing VPC
- Installing a private cluster on GCP
- Installing a cluster on GCP using Deployment Manager templates
- Installing a cluster on GCP using Deployment Manager templates and a shared VPC
- Installing a cluster on GCP in a restricted network with user-provisioned infrastructure
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- Installing a cluster on vSphere with user-provisioned infrastructure and network customizations
- Installing a cluster on vSphere in a restricted network
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- Uninstalling a cluster on vSphere that uses installer-provisioned infrastructure
- Installation configuration
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- Support for FIPS cryptography
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- Authentication and authorization
- Understanding authentication
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- Using bound service account tokens
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- Impersonating the system:admin user
- Syncing LDAP groups
- Creating and using config maps
- Networking
- Understanding networking
- Accessing hosts
- Understanding the Cluster Network Operator
- Understanding the DNS Operator
- Understanding the Ingress Operator
- Using SCTP
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- Network policy
- Multiple networks
- Understanding multiple networks
- Attaching a Pod to an additional network
- Removing a Pod from an additional network
- Configuring a bridge network
- Configuring a host-device network
- Configuring an ipvlan network
- Configuring a macvlan network with basic customizations
- Configuring a macvlan network
- Editing an additional network
- Removing an additional network
- Hardware networks
- OpenShift SDN default CNI network provider
- About the OpenShift SDN default CNI network provider
- Configuring egress IPs for a project
- Configuring an egress firewall for a project
- Editing an egress firewall for a project
- Removing an egress firewall from a project
- Considerations for the use of an egress router pod
- Deploying an egress router pod in redirect mode
- Deploying an egress router pod in HTTP proxy mode
- Deploying an egress router pod in DNS proxy mode
- Configuring an egress router pod destination list from a config map
- Enabling multicast for a project
- Disabling multicast for a project
- Configuring multitenant isolation
- Configuring kube-proxy
- OVN-Kubernetes default CNI network provider
- Configuring Routes
- Configuring ingress cluster traffic
- Configuring the cluster-wide proxy
- Configuring a custom PKI
- Load balancing on OpenStack
- Storage
- Understanding ephemeral storage
- Understanding persistent storage
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- Persistent storage using AWS Elastic Block Store
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- Persistent storage using GCE Persistent Disk
- Persistent storage using hostPath
- Persistent Storage using iSCSI
- Persistent storage using local volumes
- Persistent storage using NFS
- Persistent storage using Red Hat OpenShift Container Storage
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- Using Container Storage Interface (CSI)
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- Dynamic provisioning
- Registry
- Operators
- Understanding Operators
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- Operator SDK CLI reference
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- Using templates
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- Nodes
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- About Pods
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- Using Device Manager to make devices available to nodes
- Including pod priority in Pod scheduling decisions
- Placing pods on specific nodes using node selectors
- Controlling pod placement onto nodes (scheduling)
- About pod placement using the scheduler
- Configuring the default scheduler to control pod placement
- Placing pods relative to other pods using pod affinity and anti-affinity rules
- Controlling pod placement on nodes using node affinity rules
- Placing pods onto overcommited nodes
- Controlling pod placement using node taints
- Placing pods on specific nodes using node selectors
- Running a custom scheduler
- Evicting pods using the descheduler
- Using Jobs and DaemonSets
- Working with nodes
- Viewing and listing the nodes in your cluster
- Working with nodes
- Managing Nodes
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- Using the Node Tuning Operator
- Understanding node rebooting
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- Allocating specific CPUs for nodes in a cluster
- Machine Config Daemon metrics
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- Using containers
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- Using sysctls in containers
- Working with clusters
- Working with pods
- Logging
- About cluster logging
- Installing cluster logging
- Configuring your cluster logging deployment
- About the Cluster Logging Custom Resource
- Configuring the logging collector
- Configuring the log store
- Configuring the log visualizer
- Configuring cluster logging storage
- Configuring CPU and memory limits for cluster logging components
- Using tolerations to control cluster logging pod placement
- Moving the cluster logging resources with node selectors
- Configuring systemd-journald for cluster logging
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- Viewing cluster logs in Kibana
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- Exported fields
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- Recommended installation practices
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- Using the Node Tuning Operator
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- Migration Toolkit for Containers
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- Authorization APIs
- About Authorization APIs
- LocalResourceAccessReview [authorization.openshift.io/v1]
- LocalSubjectAccessReview [authorization.openshift.io/v1]
- ResourceAccessReview [authorization.openshift.io/v1]
- SelfSubjectRulesReview [authorization.openshift.io/v1]
- SubjectAccessReview [authorization.openshift.io/v1]
- SubjectRulesReview [authorization.openshift.io/v1]
- TokenReview [authentication.k8s.io/v1]
- LocalSubjectAccessReview [authorization.k8s.io/v1]
- SelfSubjectAccessReview [authorization.k8s.io/v1]
- SelfSubjectRulesReview [authorization.k8s.io/v1]
- SubjectAccessReview [authorization.k8s.io/v1]
- Autoscale APIs
- Config APIs
- About Config APIs
- APIServer [config.openshift.io/v1]
- Authentication [config.openshift.io/v1]
- Build [config.openshift.io/v1]
- ClusterOperator [config.openshift.io/v1]
- ClusterVersion [config.openshift.io/v1]
- Console [config.openshift.io/v1]
- DNS [config.openshift.io/v1]
- FeatureGate [config.openshift.io/v1]
- Image [config.openshift.io/v1]
- Infrastructure [config.openshift.io/v1]
- Ingress [config.openshift.io/v1]
- Network [config.openshift.io/v1]
- OAuth [config.openshift.io/v1]
- OperatorHub [config.openshift.io/v1]
- Project [config.openshift.io/v1]
- Proxy [config.openshift.io/v1]
- Scheduler [config.openshift.io/v1]
- Console APIs
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- Image APIs
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- Image [image.openshift.io/v1]
- ImageSignature [image.openshift.io/v1]
- ImageStreamImage [image.openshift.io/v1]
- ImageStreamImport [image.openshift.io/v1]
- ImageStreamMapping [image.openshift.io/v1]
- ImageStream [image.openshift.io/v1]
- ImageStreamTag [image.openshift.io/v1]
- ImageTag [image.openshift.io/v1]
- Machine APIs
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- ContainerRuntimeConfig [machineconfiguration.openshift.io/v1]
- ControllerConfig [machineconfiguration.openshift.io/v1]
- KubeletConfig [machineconfiguration.openshift.io/v1]
- MachineConfigPool [machineconfiguration.openshift.io/v1]
- MachineConfig [machineconfiguration.openshift.io/v1]
- MachineHealthCheck [machine.openshift.io/v1beta1]
- Machine [machine.openshift.io/v1beta1]
- MachineSet [machine.openshift.io/v1beta1]
- Metadata APIs
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- Network APIs
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- ClusterNetwork [network.openshift.io/v1]
- Endpoints [core/v1]
- EndpointSlice [discovery.k8s.io/v1beta1]
- EgressNetworkPolicy [network.openshift.io/v1]
- HostSubnet [network.openshift.io/v1]
- Ingress [networking.k8s.io/v1beta1]
- IngressClass [networking.k8s.io/v1beta1]
- NetNamespace [network.openshift.io/v1]
- NetworkAttachmentDefinition [k8s.cni.cncf.io/v1]
- NetworkPolicy [networking.k8s.io/v1]
- Route [route.openshift.io/v1]
- Service [core/v1]
- Node APIs
- OAuth APIs
- Operator APIs
- About Operator APIs
- Authentication [operator.openshift.io/v1]
- Console [operator.openshift.io/v1]
- Config [operator.openshift.io/v1]
- Config [imageregistry.operator.openshift.io/v1]
- Config [samples.operator.openshift.io/v1]
- CSISnapshotController [operator.openshift.io/v1]
- DNS [operator.openshift.io/v1]
- DNSRecord [ingress.operator.openshift.io/v1]
- Etcd [operator.openshift.io/v1]
- ImageContentSourcePolicy [operator.openshift.io/v1alpha1]
- ImagePruner [imageregistry.operator.openshift.io/v1]
- IngressController [operator.openshift.io/v1]
- KubeAPIServer [operator.openshift.io/v1]
- KubeControllerManager [operator.openshift.io/v1]
- KubeScheduler [operator.openshift.io/v1]
- KubeStorageVersionMigrator [operator.openshift.io/v1]
- Network [operator.openshift.io/v1]
- OpenShiftAPIServer [operator.openshift.io/v1]
- OpenShiftControllerManager [operator.openshift.io/v1]
- ServiceCA [operator.openshift.io/v1]
- OperatorHub APIs
- About OperatorHub APIs
- CatalogSource [operators.coreos.com/v1alpha1]
- ClusterServiceVersion [operators.coreos.com/v1alpha1]
- InstallPlan [operators.coreos.com/v1alpha1]
- OperatorGroup [operators.coreos.com/v1]
- OperatorSource [operators.coreos.com/v1]
- PackageManifest [packages.operators.coreos.com/v1]
- Subscription [operators.coreos.com/v1alpha1]
- Policy APIs
- Project APIs
- RBAC APIs
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- Schedule and quota APIs
- Security APIs
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- CertificateSigningRequest [certificates.k8s.io/v1beta1]
- CredentialsRequest [cloudcredential.openshift.io/v1]
- PodSecurityPolicyReview [security.openshift.io/v1]
- PodSecurityPolicySelfSubjectReview [security.openshift.io/v1]
- PodSecurityPolicySubjectReview [security.openshift.io/v1]
- RangeAllocation [security.openshift.io/v1]
- Secret [core/v1]
- SecurityContextConstraints [security.openshift.io/v1]
- ServiceAccount [core/v1]
- Storage APIs
- About Storage APIs
- CSIDriver [storage.k8s.io/v1]
- CSINode [storage.k8s.io/v1]
- PersistentVolumeClaim [core/v1]
- StorageClass [storage.k8s.io/v1]
- VolumeAttachment [storage.k8s.io/v1]
- VolumeSnapshot [snapshot.storage.k8s.io/v1beta1]
- VolumeSnapshotClass [snapshot.storage.k8s.io/v1beta1]
- VolumeSnapshotContent [snapshot.storage.k8s.io/v1beta1]
- Template APIs
- User and group APIs
- Workloads APIs
- About Workloads APIs
- BuildConfig [build.openshift.io/v1]
- Build [build.openshift.io/v1]
- CronJob [batch/v1beta1]
- DaemonSet [apps/v1]
- Deployment [apps/v1]
- DeploymentConfig [apps.openshift.io/v1]
- Job [batch/v1]
- Pod [core/v1]
- ReplicationController [core/v1]
- PersistentVolume [core/v1]
- ReplicaSet [apps/v1]
- StatefulSet [apps/v1]
- Service Mesh
- Service Mesh 1.x
- Service Mesh 1.x release notes
- Service Mesh architecture
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- Preparing to install Service Mesh
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- Removing Service Mesh
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- About OpenShift Virtualization
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- OpenShift Virtualization installation
- Preparing your OpenShift cluster for OpenShift Virtualization
- Installing OpenShift Virtualization using the web console
- Installing OpenShift Virtualization using the CLI
- Installing the virtctl client
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- Viewing the IP address of NICs on a virtual machine
- Using a MAC address pool for virtual machines
- Virtual machine disks
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- Configuring local storage for virtual machines
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About the OVN-Kubernetes default Container Network Interface (CNI) network provider
The OpenShift Container Platform cluster uses a virtualized network for pod and service networks. The OVN-Kubernetes Container Network Interface (CNI) plug-in is a network provider for the default cluster network.
OVN-Kubernetes features
The OVN-Kubernetes default Container Network Interface (CNI) network provider implements the following features:
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Uses OVN (Open Virtual Network) to manage network traffic flows. OVN is a community developed, vendor agnostic network virtualization solution.
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Implements Kubernetes network policy support, including ingress and egress rules.
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Uses the Geneve (Generic Network Virtualization Encapsulation) protocol rather than VXLAN to create an overlay network between nodes.
Supported default CNI network provider feature matrix
OpenShift Container Platform offers two supported choices, OpenShift SDN and OVN-Kubernetes, for the default Container Network Interface (CNI) network provider. The following table summarizes the current feature support for both network providers:
| Feature | OVN-Kubernetes [1] | OpenShift SDN |
|---|---|---|
Egress IPs |
Not supported |
Supported |
Egress firewall [2] |
Not supported |
Supported |
Egress router |
Not supported |
Supported |
Kubernetes network policy |
Supported |
Partially supported [3] |
Multicast |
Supported |
Supported |
Exposed metrics for OVN-Kubernetes
The OVN-Kubernetes default Container Network Interface (CNI) network provider exposes certain metrics for use by the Prometheus-based OpenShift Container Platform cluster monitoring stack.
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
|
The latency between when a pod is created and when the pod is annotated by OVN-Kubernetes. The higher the latency, the more time that elapses before a pod is available for network connectivity. |
Additional resources