Use IP Pool by Workload¶

This page describes how to configure multiple NICs for workload Pods in combination with Multus and Underlay CNI, and how to allocate and fix IPs of the Underlay network through Spiderpool. Mainly include:

• Multi-container NIC for Pods
• Workloads use IP pools
• Workloads use fixed IP pools
• Workloads use auto-created fixed IP pools

Prerequisites¶

1. Install SpiderPool.
2. Install Multus with Macvlan/SR-IOV.
3. If you use manual selection of IP pool, Create IP Subnet and IP Pool in advance. If you use automatic creation of a fixed IP pool, Create IP Pool in advance.

Steps¶

1. Log in to the platform UI, click Container Management->Clusters in the left navigation bar, and find the corresponding cluster. Then, select Deployments in the left navigation bar and click Create from an Image.

   

2. On the Deployments page, complete the infor,ation input of Basic Information, Container Settings, and Service Settings. Then, go to Advanced Settings and click Container Network Card —> Configuration.

   

3. On Container Network Card Configuration page, enter following arguments:

   • NIC info: If the created application container needs to use multiple NICs, such as one for east-west traffic and another for north-south traffic.

     • eth0 (default NIC): Overlay CNI, Calico/Cilium is the default.

     • net1: Underlay CNI configuration is optiional, such as Macvlan/SR-IOV. The example here is Macvlan.

   • IPPool config: Rules for Underlay CNI IP allocation.

     • Create fixed IPPool: When enabled, you only need to select the corresponding subnet for the new container NICs (net1, net2, net3), and the workload will automatically create a fixed IP pool when it is deployed. The container NICs can only use the addresses in this IP pool after deployment.
     • Flexible IP: When enabled, the number of IPs in the IP pool will change according to the number of elastic IPs set. The maximum number of available IPs is equal to the number of Pod copies + the number of resilient IPs. The IP pool will be expanded when the Pod is expanded.
     • Custom route: Custom routes can be added when applications are created with special routing needs.
     • NIC IPPool: Select the subnet to be used by the corresponding NIC or the corresponding IP pool.

   Manually select an existing IP pool

   To manually select an IP pool, you need to create an IP pool in advance. You can select the range of the IP pool as shared IP pool, add the current application affinity IP pool, and add the current namespace affinity IP pool.

   

   Note: If the chosen IP Pool Creation Time has added node affinity like: zone:beijing, please add the corresponding label zone:beijing when creating the workload. For use cases, please refer to: Instructions for Use of IP Pool

   Automatically create fixed IP pool

   You only need to select the corresponding subnet to automatically create a fixed IP pool

   

   Use the default IP pool Create an IP pool in advance, and in the Multus CNI configuration, select the network card with the default IP pool to use the default IP pool function. For details, please refer to: Creating a Multus CR

4. After creating the workload, you can click the corresponding workload workload01 to view the IP used by the workload Pod.

   

   

YAML usage¶

1. Use the Pod annotation ipam.spidernet.io/ippool to allocate IP from the IP pool testingippool to create the following Deployment:

   apiVersion: apps/v1
   kind: Deployment
   metadata:
     name: workload01
   spec:
     replicas: 3
     selector:
       matchLabels:
         app: workload01
     template:
       metadata:
         annotations:
           ipam.spidernet.io/ippool: |-
             {
               "ipv4": ["testingippool"]
             }
         labels:
           app: workload01
       spec:
         containers:
         -name: workload01
           image: busybox
           imagePullPolicy: IfNotPresent
           command: ["/bin/sh", "-c", "trap : TERM INT; sleep infinity & wait"]
   

2. The Pods controlled by the Deployment workload01 are assigned IP addresses from the IP pool testingippool and run successfully.

   kubectl get se
   NAME                                      INTERFACE   IPV4POOL               IPV4              IPV6POOL   IPV6   NODE            CREATETION TIME
   workload01-6967dcd8df-8b6zp   eth0        standard-ipv4-ippool   172.18.41.47/24                     spider-worker   7s
   standard-ippool-deploy-6967dcd8df-cvq79   eth0        standard-ipv4-ippool   172.18.41.50/24                     spider-worker   7s
   standard-ippool-deploy-6967dcd8df-s58x9   eth0        standard-ipv4-ippool   172.18.41.41/24                     spider-worker   7s
   

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