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Antrea Feature Gates
This page contains an overview of the various features an administrator can turn on or off for Antrea components. We follow the same convention as the Kubernetes feature gates.
In particular:
- a feature in the Alpha stage will be disabled by default but can be enabled by
editing the appropriate
.conf
entry in the Antrea manifest. - a feature in the Beta stage will be enabled by default but can be disabled by
editing the appropriate
.conf
entry in the Antrea manifest. - a feature in the GA stage will be enabled by default and cannot be disabled.
Some features are specific to the Agent, others are specific to the Controller,
and some apply to both and should be enabled / disabled consistently in both
.conf
entries.
To enable / disable a feature, edit the Antrea manifest appropriately. For
example, to enable AntreaProxy
on Linux, edit the Agent configuration in the
antrea
ConfigMap as follows:
antrea-agent.conf: |
# FeatureGates is a map of feature names to bools that enable or disable experimental features.
featureGates:
# Enable antrea proxy which provides ServiceLB for in-cluster Services in antrea agent.
# It should be enabled on Windows, otherwise NetworkPolicy will not take effect on
# Service traffic.
AntreaProxy: true
List of Available Features
Feature Name | Component | Default | Stage | Alpha Release | Beta Release | GA Release | Extra Requirements | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
AntreaProxy |
Agent | true |
Beta | v0.8 | v0.11 | N/A | Yes | Must be enabled for Windows. |
EndpointSlice |
Agent | false |
Alpha | v0.13.0 | N/A | N/A | Yes | |
AntreaPolicy |
Agent + Controller | true |
Beta | v0.8 | v1.0 | N/A | No | Agent side config required from v0.9.0+. |
Traceflow |
Agent + Controller | true |
Beta | v0.8 | v0.11 | N/A | Yes | |
FlowExporter |
Agent | false |
Alpha | v0.9 | N/A | N/A | Yes | |
NetworkPolicyStats |
Agent + Controller | true |
Beta | v0.10 | v1.2 | N/A | No | |
NodePortLocal |
Agent | false |
Alpha | v0.13 | N/A | N/A | Yes | Important user-facing change in v1.2.0 |
Egress |
Agent + Controller | false |
Alpha | v1.0 | N/A | N/A | Yes |
Description and Requirements of Features
AntreaProxy
AntreaProxy
implements Service load-balancing for ClusterIP Services as part
of the OVS pipeline, as opposed to relying on kube-proxy. This only applies to
traffic originating from Pods, and destined to ClusterIP Services. In
particular, it does not apply to NodePort Services. Please note that due to
some restrictions on the implementation of Services in Antrea, the maximum
number of Endpoints that Antrea can support at the moment is 800. If the
number of Endpoints for a given Service exceeds 800, extra Endpoints will
be dropped.
Note that this feature must be enabled for Windows. The Antrea Windows YAML manifest provided as part of releases enables this feature by default. If you edit the manifest, make sure you do not disable it, as it is needed for correct NetworkPolicy implementation for Pod-to-Service traffic.
EndpointSlice
EndpointSlice
enables Service EndpointSlice support in AntreaProxy. The
EndpointSlice API was introduced in Kubernetes 1.16 (alpha) and it is enabled
by default in Kubernetes 1.17 (beta). The EndpointSlice feature gate will take no
effect if AntreaProxy is not enabled. The endpoint conditions of Serving
and
Terminating
are not supported currently. ServiceTopology is not supported either.
Refer to this
link
for more information. The EndpointSlice API version that AntreaProxy supports is v1beta1
currently, and other EndpointSlice API versions are not supported. If EndpointSlice is
enabled in AntreaProxy, but EndpointSlice API is disabled in Kubernetes or EndpointSlice
API version v1beta1 is not supported in Kubernetes, Antrea Agent will log an error message
and will not implement Cluster IP functionality as expected.
Requirements for this Feature
When using the OVS built-in kernel module (which is the most common case), your kernel version must be >= 4.6 (as opposed to >= 4.4 without this feature).
AntreaPolicy
AntreaPolicy
enables Antrea ClusterNetworkPolicy and Antrea NetworkPolicy CRDs to be
handled by Antrea controller. ClusterNetworkPolicy
is an Antrea-specific extension to K8s
NetworkPolicies, which enables cluster admins to define security policies which
apply to the entire cluster. Antrea NetworkPolicy
also complements K8s NetworkPolicies
by supporting policy priorities and rule actions.
Refer to this
document for more information.
Requirements for this Feature
None
Traceflow
Traceflow
enables a CRD API for Antrea that supports generating tracing
requests for traffic going through the Antrea-managed Pod network. This is
useful for troubleshooting connectivity issues, e.g. determining if a
NetworkPolicy is responsible for traffic drops between two Pods. Refer to
this
document for more information.
Requirements for this Feature
Until Antrea v0.11, this feature could only be used in “encap” mode, with the Geneve tunnel type (default configuration for both Linux and Windows). In v0.11, this feature was graduated to Beta (enabled by default) and this requirement was lifted.
In order to support cluster Services as the destination for tracing requests,
AntreaProxy
should be enabled, which is the default starting with Antrea
v0.11.
Flow Exporter
Flow Exporter
is a feature that runs as part of the Antrea Agent, and enables
network flow visibility into a Kubernetes cluster. Flow exporter sends
IPFIX flow records that are built from observed connections in Conntrack module
to a flow collector. Refer to this
document for more information.
Requirements for this Feature
This feature is currently only supported for Nodes running Linux. Windows support will be added in the future.
NetworkPolicyStats
NetworkPolicyStats
enables collecting NetworkPolicy statistics from
antrea-agents and exposing them through Antrea Stats API, which can be accessed
by kubectl get commands, e.g. kubectl get networkpolicystats
. The statistical
data includes total number of sessions, packets, and bytes allowed or denied by
a NetworkPolicy. It is collected asynchronously so there may be a delay of up to
1 minute for changes to be reflected in API responses. The feature supports K8s
NetworkPolicies and Antrea native policies, the latter of which requires
AntreaPolicy
to be enabled. Usage examples:
# List stats of all K8s NetworkPolicies.
> kubectl get networkpolicystats -A
NAMESPACE NAME SESSIONS PACKETS BYTES CREATED AT
default access-nginx 3 36 5199 2020-09-07T13:19:38Z
kube-system access-dns 1 12 1221 2020-09-07T13:22:42Z
# List stats of all Antrea ClusterNetworkPolicies.
> kubectl get antreaclusternetworkpolicystats
NAME SESSIONS PACKETS BYTES CREATED AT
cluster-deny-egress 3 36 5199 2020-09-07T13:19:38Z
cluster-access-dns 10 120 12210 2020-09-07T13:22:42Z
# List stats of all Antrea NetworkPolicies.
> kubectl get antreanetworkpolicystats -A
NAMESPACE NAME SESSIONS PACKETS BYTES CREATED AT
default access-http 3 36 5199 2020-09-07T13:19:38Z
foo bar 1 12 1221 2020-09-07T13:22:42Z
Requirements for this Feature
None
NodePortLocal
NodePortLocal
(NPL) is a feature that runs as part of the Antrea Agent,
through which each port of a Service backend Pod can be reached from the
external network using a port of the Node on which the Pod is running. NPL
enables better integration with external Load Balancers which can take advantage
of the feature: instead of relying on NodePort Services implemented by
kube-proxy, external Load-Balancers can consume NPL port mappings published by
the Antrea Agent (as K8s Pod annotations) and load-balance Service traffic
directly to backend Pods.
Refer to this
document for more information.
Requirements for this Feature
This feature is currently only supported for Nodes running Linux with IPv4 addresses. Only TCP Service ports are supported.
Egress
Egress
enables a CRD API for Antrea that supports specifying which egress
(SNAT) IP the traffic from the selected Pods to the external network should use.
When a selected Pod accesses the external network, the egress traffic will be
tunneled to the Node that hosts the egress IP if it’s different from the Node
that the Pod runs on and will be SNATed to the egress IP when leaving that Node.
Refer to this
document for more information.
Requirements for this Feature
This feature is currently only supported for Nodes running Linux and “encap” mode. The support for Windows and other traffic modes will be added in the future.