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Weave Net can be installed onto your CNI-enabled Kubernetes cluster with a single command:git
$ kubectl apply -f "https://cloud.weave.works/k8s/net?k8s-version=$(kubectl version | base64 | tr -d '\n')"
After a few seconds, a Weave Net pod should be running on each Node and any further pods you create will be automatically attached to the Weave network.github
Note: This command requires Kubernetes 1.4 or later, and we recommend your master node has at least two CPU cores.bootstrap
CNI, the Container Network Interface, is a proposed standard for configuring network interfaces for Linux containers.api
If you do not already have a CNI-enabled cluster, you can bootstrap one easily with kubeadm.網絡
Alternatively, you can configure CNI yourselfapp
Note: If using the Weave CNI Plugin from a prior full install of Weave Net with your cluster, you must first uninstall it before applying the Weave-kube addon. Shut down Kubernetes, and on all nodes perform the following:less
weave reset
systemd
unitsrm /opt/cni/bin/weave-*
Then relaunch Kubernetes and install the addon as described above.curl
In version 1.6, Kubernetes has increased security, so we need to create a special service account to run Weave Net. This is done in the file weave-daemonset-k8s-1.6.yaml
attached to the Weave Net release.ide
Also, the toleration required to let Weave Net run on master nodes has moved from an annotation to a field on the DaemonSet spec object.
If you have edited the Weave Net DaemonSet from a previous release, you will need to re-make your changes against the new version.
For Kubernetes 1.6 and above the DaemonSet definition specifies Rolling Updates, so when you apply a new version Kubernetes will automatically restart the Weave Net pods one by one.
Kubernetes v1.5 and below does not support rolling upgrades of daemon sets, and so you will need to perform the procedure manually:
kubectl apply -f "https://cloud.weave.works/k8s/net?k8s-version=$(kubectl version | base64 | tr -d '\n')"
kubectl delete
and then wait for it to reboot before moving on to the next pod.Note: In versions prior to Weave Net 2.0, deleting all Weave Net pods at the same time will result in them losing track of IP address range ownership, possibly leading to duplicate IP addresses if you then start a new copy of Weave Net.
Kubernetes manages resources on each node, and only schedules pods to run on nodes that have enough free resources.
The components of a typical Kubernetes installation (with the master node running etcd, scheduler, api-server, etc.) take up about 95% of a CPU, which leaves little room to run anything else. For all of Weave Net’s features to work, it must run on every node, including the master.
The best way to resolve this issue is to use machines with at least two CPU cores. However if you are installing Kubernetes and Weave Net for the first time, you may not be aware of this requirement. For this reason, Weave Net launches as a DaemonSet with a specification that reserves at least 1% CPU for each container. This enables Weave Net to start up seamlessly on a single-CPU node.
Depending on the workload, Weave Net may need more than 1% of the CPU. The percentage set in the DaemonSet is the minimum and not a limit. This minimum setting allows Weave Net to take advantage of available CPU and 「burst」 above that limit if it needs to.
If a node runs out of CPU, memory or disk, Kubernetes may decide to evict one or more pods. It may choose to evict the Weave Net pod, which will disrupt pod network operations.
You can reduce the chance of eviction by changing the DaemonSet to have a much bigger request, and a limit of the same value.
This causes Kubernetes to apply a 「guaranteed」 rather than a 「burstable」 policy. However a similar request for disk space can not be made, and so please be aware of this issue and monitor your resources to ensure that they stay below 100%.
You can see when pods have been evicted via the kubectl get events
command
LASTSEEN COUNT NAME KIND TYPE REASON SOURCE MESSAGE 1m 1 mypod-09vkd Pod Warning Evicted kubelet, node-1 The node was low on resource: memory.
or kubectl get pods
NAME READY STATUS RESTARTS AGE IP NODE mypod-09vkd 0/1 Evicted 0 1h <none> node-1
If you see this in your cluster, consider some of the above steps to reduce disruption.
Weave Net provides a network to connect all pods together, implementing the Kubernetes model.
Kubernetes uses the Container Network Interface (CNI) to join pods onto Weave Net.
Kubernetes implements many network features itself on top of the pod network. This includes Services, Service Discovery via DNS and Ingress into the cluster. WeaveDNS is disabled when using the Kubernetes addon.
Kubernetes Network Policies let you securely isolate pods from each other based on namespaces and labels. For more information on configuring network policies in Kubernetes see the walkthrough and the NetworkPolicy API object definition
Note: as of version 1.9 of Weave Net, the Network Policy Controller allows all multicast traffic. Since a single multicast address may be used by multiple pods, we cannot implement rules to isolate them individually. You can turn this behaviour off (block all multicast traffic) by adding --allow-mcast=false
as an argument to weave-npc
in the YAML configuration.
Many Kubernetes network issues occur at a higher level than Weave Net. The [Kubernetes Service Debugging Guide] (https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/debug-application-cluster/debug-service/) has a detailed step-by-step guide.
The status of Weave Net can be checked by running its CLI commands. This can be done in various ways:
1. Install the weave
script and run:
$ weave status Version: 2.0.1 (up to date; next check at 2017/07/10 13:49:29) Service: router Protocol: weave 1..2 Name: 42:8e:e8:c4:52:1b(host-0) Encryption: disabled PeerDiscovery: enabled Targets: 3 Connections: 3 (2 established, 1 failed) Peers: 3 (with 6 established connections) TrustedSubnets: none Service: ipam Status: ready Range: 10.32.0.0/12 DefaultSubnet: 10.32.0.0/12
2. If you don’t want to install additional software onto your hosts, run via kubectl
commands, which produce the exact same outcome as the previous example:
### Identify the Weave Net pods: $ kubectl get pods -n kube-system -l name=weave-net -o wide NAME READY STATUS RESTARTS AGE IP NODE weave-net-1jkl6 2/2 Running 0 1d 10.128.0.4 host-0 weave-net-bskbv 2/2 Running 0 1d 10.128.0.5 host-1 weave-net-m4x1b 2/2 Running 0 1d 10.128.0.6 host-2
The above shows all Weave Net pods available in your cluster. You can see Kubernetes has deployed one Weave Net pod per host, in order to interconnect all hosts.
You then need to:
weave-net-1jkl6
here)kubectl exec
to run the weave status
command/home/weave/weave
and add --local
because it’s running inside a container$ kubectl exec -n kube-system weave-net-1jkl6 -c weave -- /home/weave/weave --local status Version: 2.0.1 (up to date; next check at 2017/07/10 13:49:29) Service: router Protocol: weave 1..2 Name: 42:8e:e8:c4:52:1b(host-0) Encryption: disabled PeerDiscovery: enabled Targets: 3 Connections: 3 (2 established, 1 failed) Peers: 3 (with 6 established connections) TrustedSubnets: none Service: ipam Status: ready Range: 10.32.0.0/12 DefaultSubnet: 10.32.0.0/12
3. Finally you could also use Weave Cloud and monitor all your pods, including Weave Net’s ones, from there.
For more information see What is Weave Cloud?
If you suspect that legitimate traffic is being blocked by the Weave Network Policy Controller, the first thing to do is check the weave-npc
container’s logs.
To do this, first you have to find the name of the Weave Net pod running on the relevant host:
$ kubectl get pods -n kube-system -o wide | grep weave-net weave-net-08y45 2/2 Running 0 1m 10.128.0.2 host1 weave-net-2zuhy 2/2 Running 0 1m 10.128.0.4 host3 weave-net-oai50 2/2 Running 0 1m 10.128.0.3 host2
Select the relevant container, for example, if you want to look at host2 then pick weave-net-oai50
and run:
$ kubectl logs <weave-pod-name-as-above> -n kube-system weave-npc
When the Weave Network Policy Controller blocks a connection, it logs the following details about it:
as per the below example:
TCP connection from 10.32.0.7:56648 to 10.32.0.11:80 blocked by Weave NPC. UDP connection from 10.32.0.7:56648 to 10.32.0.11:80 blocked by Weave NPC.
--masquerade-all
on kube-proxy: this will change the source address of every pod-to-pod conversation which will make it impossible to correctly enforce network policies that restrict which pods can talk.--cluster-cidr
option on kube-proxy, make sure it matches the IPALLOC_RANGE
given to Weave Net (see below)cloud.weave.works
You can customise the YAML you get from cloud.weave.works
by passing some of Weave Net’s options, arguments and environment variables as query parameters:
version
: Weave Net’s version. Default: latest
, i.e. latest release. N.B.: This only changes the specified version inside the generated YAML file, it does not ensure that the rest of the YAML is compatible with that version. To freeze the YAML version save a copy of the YAML file from the release page and use that copy instead of downloading it each time from cloud.weave.works
.password-secret
: name of the Kubernetes secret containing your password. N.B: The Kubernetes secret name must correspond to a name of a file containing your password. Example:
$ echo "s3cr3tp4ssw0rd" > /var/lib/weave/weave-passwd $ kubectl create secret -n kube-system generic weave-passwd --from-file=/var/lib/weave/weave-passwd $ kubectl apply -f "https://cloud.weave.works/k8s/net?k8s-version=$(kubectl version | base64 | tr -d '\n')&password-secret=weave-passwd"
known-peers
: comma-separated list of hosts. Default: empty.trusted-subnets
: comma-separated list of CIDRs. Default: empty.disable-npc
: boolean (true|false
). Default: false
.env.NAME=VALUE
: add environment variable NAME
and set it to VALUE
.seLinuxOptions.NAME=VALUE
: add SELinux option NAME
and set it to VALUE
, e.g. seLinuxOptions.type=spc_t
use-legacy-netpol
: use legacy NetworkPolicy semantics, boolean (true|false
). Default: true
for Kubernetes version <= 1.6, false
for > 1.6.The list of variables you can set is:
CHECKPOINT_DISABLE
- if set to 1, disable checking for new Weave Net versions (default is blank, i.e. check is enabled)CONN_LIMIT
- soft limit on the number of connections between peers. Defaults to 30.HAIRPIN_MODE
- Weave Net defaults to enabling hairpin on the bridge side of the veth
pair for containers attached. If you need to disable hairpin, e.g. your kernel is one of those that can panic if hairpin is enabled, then you can disable it by setting HAIRPIN_MODE=false
.IPALLOC_RANGE
- the range of IP addresses used by Weave Net and the subnet they are placed in (CIDR format; default 10.32.0.0/12
)EXPECT_NPC
- set to 0 to disable Network Policy Controller (default is on)KUBE_PEERS
- list of addresses of peers in the Kubernetes cluster (default is to fetch the list from the api-server)IPALLOC_INIT
- set the initialization mode of the IP Address Manager (defaults to consensus amongst the KUBE_PEERS
)WEAVE_EXPOSE_IP
- set the IP address used as a gateway from the Weave network to the host network - this is useful if you are configuring the addon as a static pod.WEAVE_MTU
- Weave Net defaults to 1376 bytes, but you can set a smaller size if your underlying network has a tighter limit, or set a larger size for better performance if your network supports jumbo frames - see here for more details.Example:
$ kubectl apply -f "https://cloud.weave.works/k8s/net?k8s-version=$(kubectl version | base64 | tr -d '\n')&env.WEAVE_MTU=1337"
This command – notice &env.WEAVE_MTU=1337
at the end of the URL – generates a YAML file containing, among others:
[...] containers: - name: weave [...] env: - name: WEAVE_MTU value: '1337' [...]
Note: The YAML file can also be saved for later use or manual editing by using, for example:
$ curl -fsSLo weave-daemonset.yaml "https://cloud.weave.works/k8s/net?k8s-version=$(kubectl version | base64 | tr -d '\n')"
Whether you saved the YAML file served from cloud.weave.works
or downloaded a static YAML file from our releases page, you can manually edit it to suit your needs.
For example,
command:
array in the YAML file,containers: - name: weave env: - name: IPALLOC_RANGE value: 10.0.0.0/16