deployment-on-arbitrary-cluster.md

Deployment on Arbitrary Cluster

In this guide we will cover installation of Open vSwitch (OVS), Multus and ovs-cni on your arbitrary cluster.

Requirements

A Cluster

This guide requires you to have your own Kubernetes/OpenShift cluster. If you don't have one and just want to try ovs-cni out, please refer to the deployment on local cluster guide.

Open vSwitch

Kubernetes

Open vSwitch must be installed and running on all nodes (or on a subset of nodes if you do scheduling). OVS is available in repositories of all major distributions.

On CentOS:

yum install openvswitch
systemctl start openvswitch

On Fedora:

dnf install openvswitch
systemctl start openvswitch

If you use other platform, please check Open vSwitch documentation.

You can verify that OVS is properly running.

ovs-vsctl add-br test-br
ovs-vsctl list-br
ovs-vsctl del-br test-br

OpenShift

For OpenShift, Open vSwitch is already installed on the cluster. Please note that this Open vSwitch instance is meant only for OpenShiftSDN and using it for ovs-cni may lead to unexpected behavior.

Open vSwitch CNI plugin

Finally, we can install ovs-cni on our cluster. In order to do that, please use Cluster Network Addons Operator Project.