When we want to make Calico and MetalLB working together with BGP, we’ll run into the following issue: BGP only allows one session to be established per pair of nodes. So, if Calico has a session established with your BGP router, MetalLB cannot establish its own session – it’ll get rejected as a duplicate by…
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On-premises Fedora34 K8s cluster with kubeadm and Calico
Calico is a pure layer-3 network solution to interconnect workloads as containers or virtual servers. It relies on bird (BGP opensource project), iptables and the Linux IP stack to work. Brings also additional security features like micro-segmentation. Thanks to BGP is very scalable and also it’s tightly integrated to Kubernetes as CNI plugin. Previous post…
kubernetes homelab: Installing rancher and creating k8s cluster
We have a small server and we’re going to set up some VMs in KVM for a Kubernetes homelab. I am planing to use OpenVSwitch for my virtual network, set a proxy and a DNS, and finally, install Rancher, and create a cluster with Calico. Over this post I am sharing my notes about installing…