Today in our newest take on “older technology is better”: why NAT rules!

  • JustinA
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    5 months ago

    Yeah, I wonder if there’s any proposals to allow for multiple IPV6 addresses in Kubernetes, it would be a much better solution than NAT.

    As far as I know, it’s currently not possible. Every container/Pod receives a single IPv4 and/or IPv6 address on creation from the networking driver.

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        5 months ago

        I haven’t really looked into it, but it doesn’t seem like it.

        Heres the documentation about having multiple cidr pools in one cluster with the Cilium network driver, and it seems to imply that each Pod only gets one IP.

        https://docs.cilium.io/en/stable/network/concepts/ipam/multi-pool/

        There’s something called Multus that I haven’t looked into, but even then it looks like that is for multiple interfaces per Pod, not multiple IPS per interface.

        https://github.com/k8snetworkplumbingwg/multus-cni

        Containers are just network namespaces on Linux, and all the routing is done in iptables or ebpf, so it’s theoretically possible to have multiple IP addresses, but doesn’t look like anybody has started implementing it. There’s actually a lot of Kubernetes clusters that just use stateful IPv6 NAT for the internal Pod network, unfortunately.