Kubernetes networking has some basic rules. In short, every pod has to communicate with every other. Selecting the right network plugin for the cluster is a critical key component when planning and architecting a new cluster. Luckily there are great presentations and blog posts around the topic of Kubernetes cluster networking on the internet, but the available sources are very limited about how to connect external resources that aren’t part of the cluster into the mesh. It all depends on what we would like to achieve, so finally, we have to glue the solutions together. In this post, I would like to tell our story @IBM about converting an existing node to become a full member of our Kubernetes + Calico network. First of all, we had to specify the main goals: Make node full member of the overlay network The external node needs a pod IP to be able to reach it like any regular pod in the system The pod IP must be listenable for services on the external node Service discovery i
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