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K8s Installers and Distributions

Tested installers and distributions

The table below is not comprehensive. Antrea should work with most K8s installers and distributions. The table refers to specific version combinations which are known to work and have been tested, but support is not limited to that list. Each Antrea version supports multiple K8s minor versions, and installers / distributions based on any one of these K8s versions should work with that Antrea version.

Antrea Version Installer / Distribution Cloud Infra Node Info Node Size Conformance Results Comments
v1.0.0 Kubeadm v1.21.0 AWS EC2 Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS (5.4.0-1045-aws) amd64, docker://20.10.6 t3.medium
- - - Windows Server 2019 Datacenter (10.0.17763.1817), docker://19.3.14 t3.medium
- - - Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS (5.4.0-1045-aws) arm64, docker://20.10.6 t3.medium
- Cluster API Provider vSphere (CAPV), K8s 1.19.1 VMC on AWS, vSphere 7.0.1 Ubuntu 18.04, containerd 2 vCPUs, 8GB RAM Antrea CI
- K3s v1.19.8+k3s1 OSUOSL Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS (5.4.0-66-generic) arm64, containerd://1.4.3-k3s3 2 vCPUs, 4GB RAM Antrea CI, cluster installed with k3sup 0.9.13
- Kops v1.20, K8s v1.20.5 AWS EC2 Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS (5.4.0-1041-aws) amd64, containerd://1.4.4 t3.medium results tarball
- EKS, K8s v1.17.12 AWS AmazonLinux2, docker t3.medium Antrea CI
- GKE, K8s v1.19.8-gke.1600 GCP Ubuntu 18.04, docker e2-standard-4 Antrea CI
- AKS, K8s v1.18.14 Azure Ubuntu 18.04, moby Standard_DS2_v2 Antrea CI
- AKS, K8s v1.19.9 Azure Ubuntu 18.04, containerd Standard_DS2_v2 Antrea CI
- Kind v0.9.0, K8s v1.19.1 N/A Ubuntu 20.10, containerd://1.4.0 N/A Requirements for using Antrea on Kind
- Minikube v1.25.0 N/A Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS (5.10.76-linuxkit) arm64, docker://20.10.12 8GB RAM
v1.11.0 Kubeadm v1.20.2 N/A openEuler 22.03 LTS, docker://18.09.0 10GB RAM
v1.11.0 Kubeadm v1.25.5 N/A openEuler 22.03 LTS, containerd://1.6.18 10GB RAM
v1.15.0 Talos v1.5.5 Docker provisioner Talos 2 vCPUs, 2.1 GB RAM Pass Requires Antrea v1.15 or above
- - QEMU provisioner Talos 2 vCPUs, 2.1 GB RAM Pass Requires Antrea v1.15 or above
v2.0 Rancher v2.7.0, RKE2, K8s v1.24.10 vSphere Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS (5.15.0-57-generic) amd64, docker://20.10.21 4 vCPUs, 4GB RAM Antrea CI

Installer-specific instructions

Kubeadm

When running kubeadm init to create a cluster, you need to provide a range of IP addresses for the Pod network using --pod-network-cidr. By default, a /24 subnet will be allocated out of the CIDR to every Node which joins the cluster, so make sure you use a large enough CIDR to accommodate the number of Nodes you want. Once the cluster has been created, this CIDR cannot be changed.

Rancher

Follow these steps to deploy Antrea (as a custom CNI) on Rancher cluster:

  • Edit the cluster YAML and set the network-plugin option to none.

  • Add an addon for Antrea, in the following manner:

    addons_include:
    - <link of the antrea.yml file>
    

K3s

When creating a cluster, run K3s with the following options:

  • --flannel-backend=none, which lets you run the CNI of your choice
  • --disable-network-policy, to disable the K3s NetworkPolicy controller

Kops

When creating a cluster, run Kops with --networking cni, to enable CNI for the cluster without deploying a specific network plugin.

Kind

To deploy Antrea on Kind, please follow these steps.

Minikube

To deploy Antrea on minikube, please follow these steps.

Talos

Talos is a Linux distribution designed for running Kubernetes. Antrea can be used as the CNI on Talos clusters (tested with both the Docker provisioner and the QEMU provisioner). However, because of some built-in security settings in Talos, the default configuration values cannot be used when installing Antrea. You will need to install Antrea using Helm, with a few custom values. Antrea v1.15 or above is required.

Follow these steps to deploy Antrea on a Talos cluster:

  • Make sure that your Talos cluster is created without a CNI. To ensure this, you can use a config patch. For example, to create a Talos cluster without a CNI, using the Docker provisioner:

    cat << EOF > ./patch.yaml
    cluster:
    network:
      cni:
        name: none
    EOF
    
    talosctl cluster create --config-patch=@patch.yaml --wait=false --workers 2
    

    Notice how we use --wait=false: the cluster will never be “ready” until a CNI is installed.

    Note that while we use the Docker provisioner here, you can use the Talos platform of your choice.

  • Ensure that you retrieve the Kubeconfig for your new cluster once it is available. You may need to use the talosctl kubeconfig command for this.

  • Install Antrea using Helm, with the appropriate values:

    cat << EOF > ./values.yaml
    agent:
      dontLoadKernelModules: true
      installCNI:
        securityContext:
          capabilities: []
    EOF
    
    helm install -n kube-system antrea -f value.yml antrea/antrea
    

    The above configuration will drop all capabilities from the installCNI container, and instruct the Antrea Agent not to try loading any Kernel module explicitly.

Updating the list

You can open a Pull Request to:

  • Add a new K8s installer or distribution to the table above.
  • Add a new combination of versions that you have tested successfully to the table above.

Please make sure that you run conformance tests with sonobuoy and consider uploading the test results to a publicly accessible location. You can run sonobuoy with:

sonobuoy run --mode certified-conformance

Getting Started

To help you get started, see the documentation.