bifrost

Bifrost

Bifrost is an open source solution enabling L2 network for kubernetes. The network traffic in HC-bridge can be managed and monitored by traditional devices.

Overview

Features

• L2 network for kubernetes
• Flexible IP address management
  • Two layer IP pools - namespace IP pool and service IP pool.
  • Static IP for statefulsets.
  • Annotation based IP assignment.
  • Automatic retrieve abnormal IP.
• VLAN support

Components

• Bifrost cni - CNI plugin responsible for creating and configuring linux bridge on the host.
• Bifrost ipam - Component responsible for IP address assignment, using ETCD for storage.
• network-controller - Component providing IP pool configuration restful APIs and listening for kubernetes APIServer events to retrieve abnormal IPs.
• HA Daemon - Component monitoring bonding NICs' switch on the host in high availability network environment and making physic network devices aware of the NIC's switch.

Getting started

Getting started