Chapter 5. Cluster Network Operator in OpenShift Container Platform You can use the Cluster Network Operator (CNO) to deploy and manage cluster network components on an OpenShift Container Platform cluster, including the Container Network Interface (CNI) network plugin selected for the cluster during installation. 5.1. Cluster Network Operator The Cluster Network Operator implements the network API from the operator.openshift.io API group. The Operator deploys the OVN-Kubernetes network plugin, or the network provider plugin that you selected during cluster installation, by using a daemon set. Procedure The Cluster Network Operator is deployed during installation as a Kubernetes Deployment . Run the following command to view the Deployment status: USD oc get -n openshift-network-operator deployment/network-operator Example output NAME READY UP-TO-DATE AVAILABLE AGE network-operator 1/1 1 1 56m Run the following command to view the state of the Cluster Network Operator: USD oc get clusteroperator/network Example output NAME VERSION AVAILABLE PROGRESSING DEGRADED SINCE network 4.5.4 True False False 50m The following fields provide information about the status of the operator: AVAILABLE , PROGRESSING , and DEGRADED . The AVAILABLE field is True when the Cluster Network Operator reports an available status condition. 5.2. Viewing the cluster network configuration Every new OpenShift Container Platform installation has a network.config object named cluster . Procedure Use the oc describe command to view the cluster network configuration: USD oc describe network.config/cluster Example output Name: cluster Namespace: Labels: <none> Annotations: <none> API Version: config.openshift.io/v1 Kind: Network Metadata: Self Link: /apis/config.openshift.io/v1/networks/cluster Spec: 1 Cluster Network: Cidr: 10.128.0.0/14 Host Prefix: 23 Network Type: OpenShiftSDN Service Network: 172.30.0.0/16 Status: 2 Cluster Network: Cidr: 10.128.0.0/14 Host Prefix: 23 Cluster Network MTU: 8951 Network Type: OpenShiftSDN Service Network: 172.30.0.0/16 Events: <none> 1 The Spec field displays the configured state of the cluster network. 2 The Status field displays the current state of the cluster network configuration. 5.3. Viewing Cluster Network Operator status You can inspect the status and view the details of the Cluster Network Operator using the oc describe command. Procedure Run the following command to view the status of the Cluster Network Operator: USD oc describe clusteroperators/network 5.4. Enabling IP forwarding globally From OpenShift Container Platform 4.14 onward, global IP address forwarding is disabled on OVN-Kubernetes based cluster deployments to prevent undesirable effects for cluster administrators with nodes acting as routers. However, in some cases where an administrator expects traffic to be forwarded a new configuration parameter ipForwarding is available to allow forwarding of all IP traffic. To re-enable IP forwarding for all traffic on OVN-Kubernetes managed interfaces set the gatewayConfig.ipForwarding specification in the Cluster Network Operator to Global following this procedure: Procedure Backup the existing network configuration by running the following command: USD oc get network.operator cluster -o yaml > network-config-backup.yaml Run the following command to modify the existing network configuration: USD oc edit network.operator cluster Add or update the following block under spec as illustrated in the following example: spec: clusterNetwork: - cidr: 10.128.0.0/14 hostPrefix: 23 serviceNetwork: - 172.30.0.0/16 networkType: OVNKubernetes clusterNetworkMTU: 8900 defaultNetwork: ovnKubernetesConfig: gatewayConfig: ipForwarding: Global Save and close the file. After applying the changes, the OpenShift Cluster Network Operator (CNO) applies the update across the cluster. You can monitor the progress by using the following command: USD oc get clusteroperators network The status should eventually report as Available , Progressing=False , and Degraded=False . Alternatively, you can enable IP forwarding globally by running the following command: USD oc patch network.operator cluster -p '{"spec":{"defaultNetwork":{"ovnKubernetesConfig":{"gatewayConfig":{"ipForwarding": "Global"}}}}} Note The other valid option for this parameter is Restricted in case you want to revert this change. Restricted is the default and with that setting global IP address forwarding is disabled. 5.5. Viewing Cluster Network Operator logs You can view Cluster Network Operator logs by using the oc logs command. Procedure Run the following command to view the logs of the Cluster Network Operator: USD oc logs --namespace=openshift-network-operator deployment/network-operator 5.6. Cluster Network Operator configuration The configuration for the cluster network is specified as part of the Cluster Network Operator (CNO) configuration and stored in a custom resource (CR) object that is named cluster . The CR specifies the fields for the Network API in the operator.openshift.io API group. The CNO configuration inherits the following fields during cluster installation from the Network API in the Network.config.openshift.io API group: clusterNetwork IP address pools from which pod IP addresses are allocated. serviceNetwork IP address pool for services. defaultNetwork.type Cluster network plugin, such as OpenShift SDN or OVN-Kubernetes. Note After cluster installation, you can only modify the clusterNetwork IP address range. The default network type can only be changed from OpenShift SDN to OVN-Kubernetes through migration. You can specify the cluster network plugin configuration for your cluster by setting the fields for the defaultNetwork object in the CNO object named cluster . 5.6.1. Cluster Network Operator configuration object The fields for the Cluster Network Operator (CNO) are described in the following table: Table 5.1. Cluster Network Operator configuration object Field Type Description metadata.name string The name of the CNO object. This name is always cluster . spec.clusterNetwork array A list specifying the blocks of IP addresses from which pod IP addresses are allocated and the subnet prefix length assigned to each individual node in the cluster. For example: spec: clusterNetwork: - cidr: 10.128.0.0/19 hostPrefix: 23 - cidr: 10.128.32.0/19 hostPrefix: 23 spec.serviceNetwork array A block of IP addresses for services. The OpenShift SDN and OVN-Kubernetes network plugins support only a single IP address block for the service network. For example: spec: serviceNetwork: - 172.30.0.0/14 This value is ready-only and inherited from the Network.config.openshift.io object named cluster during cluster installation. spec.defaultNetwork object Configures the network plugin for the cluster network. spec.kubeProxyConfig object The fields for this object specify the kube-proxy configuration. If you are using the OVN-Kubernetes cluster network plugin, the kube-proxy configuration has no effect. Important For a cluster that needs to deploy objects across multiple networks, ensure that you specify the same value for the clusterNetwork.hostPrefix parameter for each network type that is defined in the install-config.yaml file. Setting a different value for each clusterNetwork.hostPrefix parameter can impact the OVN-Kubernetes network plugin, where the plugin cannot effectively route object traffic among different nodes. defaultNetwork object configuration The values for the defaultNetwork object are defined in the following table: Table 5.2. defaultNetwork object Field Type Description type string Either OpenShiftSDN or OVNKubernetes . The Red Hat OpenShift Networking network plugin is selected during installation. You can change this value by migrating from OpenShift SDN to OVN-Kubernetes. Note OpenShift Container Platform uses the OVN-Kubernetes network plugin by default. openshiftSDNConfig object This object is only valid for the OpenShift SDN network plugin. ovnKubernetesConfig object This object is only valid for the OVN-Kubernetes network plugin. Configuration for the OpenShift SDN network plugin The following table describes the configuration fields for the OpenShift SDN network plugin: Table 5.3. openshiftSDNConfig object Field Type Description mode string The network isolation mode for OpenShift SDN. mtu integer The maximum transmission unit (MTU) for the VXLAN overlay network. This value is normally configured automatically. vxlanPort integer The port to use for all VXLAN packets. The default value is 4789 . Example OpenShift SDN configuration defaultNetwork: type: OpenShiftSDN openshiftSDNConfig: mode: NetworkPolicy mtu: 1450 vxlanPort: 4789 Configuration for the OVN-Kubernetes network plugin The following table describes the configuration fields for the OVN-Kubernetes network plugin: Table 5.4. ovnKubernetesConfig object Field Type Description mtu integer The maximum transmission unit (MTU) for the Geneve (Generic Network Virtualization Encapsulation) overlay network. This value is normally configured automatically. genevePort integer The UDP port for the Geneve overlay network. ipsecConfig object If the field is present, IPsec is enabled for the cluster. ipv4 object Specifies a configuration object for IPv4 settings. ipv6 object Specifies a configuration object for IPv6 settings. policyAuditConfig object Specify a configuration object for customizing network policy audit logging. If unset, the defaults audit log settings are used. gatewayConfig object Optional: Specify a configuration object for customizing how egress traffic is sent to the node gateway. Note While migrating egress traffic, you can expect some disruption to workloads and service traffic until the Cluster Network Operator (CNO) successfully rolls out the changes. Table 5.5. ovnKubernetesConfig.ipv4 object Field Type Description internalTransitSwitchSubnet string If your existing network infrastructure overlaps with the 100.88.0.0/16 IPv4 subnet, you can specify a different IP address range for internal use by OVN-Kubernetes. The subnet for the distributed transit switch that enables east-west traffic. This subnet cannot overlap with any other subnets used by OVN-Kubernetes or on the host itself. It must be large enough to accommodate one IP address per node in your cluster. The default value is 100.88.0.0/16 . internalJoinSubnet string If your existing network infrastructure overlaps with the 100.64.0.0/16 IPv4 subnet, you can specify a different IP address range for internal use by OVN-Kubernetes. You must ensure that the IP address range does not overlap with any other subnet used by your OpenShift Container Platform installation. The IP address range must be larger than the maximum number of nodes that can be added to the cluster. For example, if the clusterNetwork.cidr value is 10.128.0.0/14 and the clusterNetwork.hostPrefix value is /23 , then the maximum number of nodes is 2^(23-14)=512 . The default value is 100.64.0.0/16 . Table 5.6. ovnKubernetesConfig.ipv6 object Field Type Description internalTransitSwitchSubnet string If your existing network infrastructure overlaps with the fd98::/48 IPv6 subnet, you can specify a different IP address range for internal use by OVN-Kubernetes. You must ensure that the IP address range does not overlap with any other subnet used by your OpenShift Container Platform installation. The IP address range must be larger than the maximum number of nodes that can be added to the cluster. This field cannot be changed after installation. The default value is fd98::/48 . internalJoinSubnet string If your existing network infrastructure overlaps with the fd98::/64 IPv6 subnet, you can specify a different IP address range for internal use by OVN-Kubernetes. You must ensure that the IP address range does not overlap with any other subnet used by your OpenShift Container Platform installation. The IP address range must be larger than the maximum number of nodes that can be added to the cluster. The default value is fd98::/64 . Table 5.7. policyAuditConfig object Field Type Description rateLimit integer The maximum number of messages to generate every second per node. The default value is 20 messages per second. maxFileSize integer The maximum size for the audit log in bytes. The default value is 50000000 or 50 MB. maxLogFiles integer The maximum number of log files that are retained. destination string One of the following additional audit log targets: libc The libc syslog() function of the journald process on the host. udp:<host>:<port> A syslog server. Replace <host>:<port> with the host and port of the syslog server. unix:<file> A Unix Domain Socket file specified by <file> . null Do not send the audit logs to any additional target. syslogFacility string The syslog facility, such as kern , as defined by RFC5424. The default value is local0 . Table 5.8. gatewayConfig object Field Type Description routingViaHost boolean Set this field to true to send egress traffic from pods to the host networking stack. For highly-specialized installations and applications that rely on manually configured routes in the kernel routing table, you might want to route egress traffic to the host networking stack. By default, egress traffic is processed in OVN to exit the cluster and is not affected by specialized routes in the kernel routing table. The default value is false . This field has an interaction with the Open vSwitch hardware offloading feature. If you set this field to true , you do not receive the performance benefits of the offloading because egress traffic is processed by the host networking stack. ipForwarding object You can control IP forwarding for all traffic on OVN-Kubernetes managed interfaces by using the ipForwarding specification in the Network resource. Specify Restricted to only allow IP forwarding for Kubernetes related traffic. Specify Global to allow forwarding of all IP traffic. For new installations, the default is Restricted . For updates to OpenShift Container Platform 4.14, the default is Global . ipv4 object Optional: Specify an object to configure the internal OVN-Kubernetes masquerade address for host to service traffic for IPv4 addresses. ipv6 object Optional: Specify an object to configure the internal OVN-Kubernetes masquerade address for host to service traffic for IPv6 addresses. Table 5.9. gatewayConfig.ipv4 object Field Type Description internalMasqueradeSubnet string The masquerade IPv4 addresses that are used internally to enable host to service traffic. The host is configured with these IP addresses as well as the shared gateway bridge interface. The default value is 169.254.169.0/29 . Table 5.10. gatewayConfig.ipv6 object Field Type Description internalMasqueradeSubnet string The masquerade IPv6 addresses that are used internally to enable host to service traffic. The host is configured with these IP addresses as well as the shared gateway bridge interface. The default value is fd69::/125 . Note You can only change the configuration for your cluster network plugin during cluster installation, except for the gatewayConfig field that can be changed at runtime as a postinstallation activity. Example OVN-Kubernetes configuration with IPSec enabled defaultNetwork: type: OVNKubernetes ovnKubernetesConfig: mtu: 1400 genevePort: 6081 ipsecConfig: {} kubeProxyConfig object configuration (OpenShiftSDN container network interface only) The values for the kubeProxyConfig object are defined in the following table: Table 5.11. kubeProxyConfig object Field Type Description iptablesSyncPeriod string The refresh period for iptables rules. The default value is 30s . Valid suffixes include s , m , and h and are described in the Go time package documentation. Note Because of performance improvements introduced in OpenShift Container Platform 4.3 and greater, adjusting the iptablesSyncPeriod parameter is no longer necessary. proxyArguments.iptables-min-sync-period array The minimum duration before refreshing iptables rules. This field ensures that the refresh does not happen too frequently. Valid suffixes include s , m , and h and are described in the Go time package . The default value is: kubeProxyConfig: proxyArguments: iptables-min-sync-period: - 0s 5.6.2. Cluster Network Operator example configuration A complete CNO configuration is specified in the following example: Example Cluster Network Operator object apiVersion: operator.openshift.io/v1 kind: Network metadata: name: cluster spec: clusterNetwork: - cidr: 10.128.0.0/14 hostPrefix: 23 serviceNetwork: - 172.30.0.0/16 networkType: OVNKubernetes clusterNetworkMTU: 8900 5.7. Additional resources Network API in the operator.openshift.io API group Modifying the clusterNetwork IP address range Migrating from the OpenShift SDN network plugin

Commands:
oc get -n openshift-network-operator deployment/network-operator
NAME READY UP-TO-DATE AVAILABLE AGE network-operator 1/1 1 1 56m
oc get clusteroperator/network
NAME VERSION AVAILABLE PROGRESSING DEGRADED SINCE network 4.5.4 True False False 50m
oc describe network.config/cluster
Name: cluster Namespace: Labels: <none> Annotations: <none> API Version: config.openshift.io/v1 Kind: Network Metadata: Self Link: /apis/config.openshift.io/v1/networks/cluster Spec: 1 Cluster Network: Cidr: 10.128.0.0/14 Host Prefix: 23 Network Type: OpenShiftSDN Service Network: 172.30.0.0/16 Status: 2 Cluster Network: Cidr: 10.128.0.0/14 Host Prefix: 23 Cluster Network MTU: 8951 Network Type: OpenShiftSDN Service Network: 172.30.0.0/16 Events: <none>
oc describe clusteroperators/network
oc get network.operator cluster -o yaml > network-config-backup.yaml
oc edit network.operator cluster
spec: clusterNetwork: - cidr: 10.128.0.0/14 hostPrefix: 23 serviceNetwork: - 172.30.0.0/16 networkType: OVNKubernetes clusterNetworkMTU: 8900 defaultNetwork: ovnKubernetesConfig: gatewayConfig: ipForwarding: Global
oc get clusteroperators network
oc patch network.operator cluster -p '{"spec":{"defaultNetwork":{"ovnKubernetesConfig":{"gatewayConfig":{"ipForwarding": "Global"}}}}}
oc logs --namespace=openshift-network-operator deployment/network-operator
spec: clusterNetwork: - cidr: 10.128.0.0/19 hostPrefix: 23 - cidr: 10.128.32.0/19 hostPrefix: 23
spec: serviceNetwork: - 172.30.0.0/14
defaultNetwork: type: OpenShiftSDN openshiftSDNConfig: mode: NetworkPolicy mtu: 1450 vxlanPort: 4789
defaultNetwork: type: OVNKubernetes ovnKubernetesConfig: mtu: 1400 genevePort: 6081 ipsecConfig: {}
kubeProxyConfig: proxyArguments: iptables-min-sync-period: - 0s
apiVersion: operator.openshift.io/v1 kind: Network metadata: name: cluster spec: clusterNetwork: - cidr: 10.128.0.0/14 hostPrefix: 23 serviceNetwork: - 172.30.0.0/16 networkType: OVNKubernetes clusterNetworkMTU: 8900