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Deploying Antrea on AKS

This document describes steps to deploy Antrea in NetworkPolicy only mode to an Azure AKS cluster.

AKS Prerequisites

Install the Azure Cloud CLI. Refer to Azure CLI installation guide

Creating the cluster

You can use any method to create an AKS cluster. The example given here is using the Azure Cloud CLI.

Create an AKS Cluster

export RESOURCE_GROUP_NAME=aks-antrea-cluster
export CLUSTER_NAME=aks-antrea-cluster
export LOCATION=westus

az group create --name $RESOURCE_GROUP_NAME --location $LOCATION
az aks create \
    --resource-group $RESOURCE_GROUP_NAME \
    --name $CLUSTER_NAME \
    --node-count 2 \
    --network-plugin azure

Note Do not specify network-policy option.

Get AKS Cluster Credentials

az aks get-credentials --name $CLUSTER_NAME --resource-group $RESOURCE_GROUP_NAME

Access your Cluster

kubectl get nodes
NAME                                STATUS   ROLES   AGE     VERSION
aks-nodepool1-84330359-vmss000000   Ready    agent   6m21s   v1.16.10
aks-nodepool1-84330359-vmss000001   Ready    agent   6m25s   v1.16.10

Deploying Antrea

Prepare the Cluster Nodes

Deploy antrea-node-init DaemonSet to enable azure cni to operate in transparent mode.

kubectl apply -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/antrea-io/antrea/main/build/yamls/antrea-aks-node-init.yml

Deploy Antrea

To deploy a released version of Antrea, pick a deployment manifest from the list of releases. Note that AKS support was added in release 0.9.0, which means you cannot pick a release older than 0.9.0. For any given release <TAG> (e.g. v0.9.0), you can deploy Antrea as follows:

kubectl apply -f https://github.com/antrea-io/antrea/releases/download/<TAG>/antrea-aks.yml

To deploy the latest version of Antrea (built from the main branch), use the checked-in deployment yaml:

kubectl apply -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/antrea-io/antrea/main/build/yamls/antrea-aks.yml

The command will deploy a single replica of Antrea controller to the AKS cluster and deploy Antrea agent to every Node. After a successful deployment you should be able to see these Pods running in your cluster:

$ kubectl get pods --namespace kube-system  -l app=antrea
NAME                                 READY   STATUS    RESTARTS   AGE
antrea-agent-bpj72                   2/2     Running   0          40s
antrea-agent-j2sjz                   2/2     Running   0          40s
antrea-controller-6f7468cbff-5sk4t   1/1     Running   0          43s
antrea-node-init-6twqg               1/1     Running   0          2m
antrea-node-init-mqsqr               1/1     Running   0          2m

Restart remaining Pods

Once Antrea is up and running, restart all Pods in all Namespaces (kube-system, etc) so they can be managed by Antrea.

kubectl delete pods -n kube-system $(kubectl get pods -n kube-system -o custom-columns=NAME:.metadata.name,HOSTNETWORK:.spec.hostNetwork --no-headers=true | grep '<none>' | awk '{ print $1 }')
pod "coredns-544d979687-96xm9" deleted
pod "coredns-544d979687-p7dfb" deleted
pod "coredns-autoscaler-78959b4578-849k8" deleted
pod "dashboard-metrics-scraper-5f44bbb8b5-5qkkx" deleted
pod "kube-proxy-6qxdw" deleted
pod "kube-proxy-h6d89" deleted
pod "kubernetes-dashboard-785654f667-7twsm" deleted
pod "metrics-server-85c57978c6-pwzcx" deleted
pod "tunnelfront-649ff5fb55-5lxg7" deleted