Calico integration

1. Anirban Sen Chowdhary

2. Project Calico, a Tigera open-source project that provides a
layer 3 network implementation, aimed at scalable datacenter
deployments.
This slides explains the components necessary to install Calico
on Kubernetes for integrating with custom configuration
management.

3. Calico Components
There are basically three components of a Calico/Kubernetes integration:
The calico/node docker container that run on the main Kubernetes master and each
Kubernetes node in our cluster that contains the BGP agent which is required for Calico
routing to occur, and the Felix agent for network policy rules.
The cni-plugin plugin that integrates directly with the Kubernetes kubelet process on
each node and discover the pods created, adds them to Calico networking system.
The calico/kube-controllers container runs as a pod on top of Kubernetes also
implements the NetworkPolicy API system.

4. Installing calico/node:
We have already seen in my previous slides
https://www.slideshare.net/anir37/deploying-calico-on-docker to install
calico/node.
The calico/node container run directly through docker container on each node
and can be done using the calicoctl utility to launch the container.

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8. Installing the Calico CNI plugins :
The Kubernetes kubelet should be configured to use the calico and calico-
ipam plugins.
Download the binaries and make sure they're executable:

9. The Calico CNI plugins needs a standard CNI config file. The policy section is
only needed when deploying the calico/kube-policy-controller for
NetworkPolicy.

10. Installing the Calico network policy controller:
The calico/kube-policy-controller that implements the Kubernetes
NetworkPolicy API system by the Kubernetes API for Pod, Namespace, and
NetworkPolicy events and configuring Calico in response. It runs as a single
pod.
To install the policy controller we need following:
1) First we need to download the policy controller manifest.
2) Then we need to modify <ETCD_ENDPOINTS> to point to our etcd cluster.
3) Finally Install it using kubectl.

11. Following command to install kubectl :
Few minute after we can see the policy controller in Running state:

12. Configuring Kubernetes:
You can check more on this topic in one of my slides here:
https://www.slideshare.net/anir37/deploying-calico-on-kubernetes-81907287

13. For more information visit
https://www.projectcalico.org/
https://docs.projectcalico.org/v2.6/introduction/
https://blog.tigera.io/tagged/calico