KubeTracker Infrastructure
Configuring Kubernetes Visibility through vPort Table and Connection Table
The Container Network Interface (CNI) is a proposed standard for configuring network interfaces for Linux application containers. A CNI plugin is responsible for inserting a network interface into the container network namespace. Kubernetes uses CNI as an interface between network providers and Kubernetes Pod networking. CNI plugins can implement their network either using encapsulated network model (overlay) such as VXLAN or an unencapsulated network model (underlay) such as BGP. Also, each plugin can operate in different modes to implement either overlay or underlay network types. For more information on Kubernetes networking and CNI plugins, see Kubernetes cluster networking documentation.
NetVisor OS version 7.0.0 uses the information from the Kubernetes client to detect the CNI configuration on the Kubernetes cluster to build vPort table and connection table for Pod to Pod traffic analytics. This feature currently supports only Flannel and Calico as CNI plugins. For more information on vPorts, see Understanding Fabric Status Updates, vPorts, and Keepalives.