Bifrost is an open source solution enabling L2 network for kubernetes. The network traffic in HC-bridge can be managed and monitored by traditional devices.
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- L2 network for kubernetes
- Flexible IP address management
- Two layer IP pools - namespace IP pool and service IP pool.
- Static IP for statefulsets.
- Annotation based IP assignment.
- Automatic retrieve abnormal IP.
- VLAN support
- Bifrost cni - CNI plugin responsible for creating and configuring linux bridge on the host.
- Bifrost ipam - Component responsible for IP address assignment, using ETCD for storage.
- network-controller - Component providing IP pool configuration restful APIs and listening for kubernetes APIServer events to retrieve abnormal IPs.
- HA Daemon - Component monitoring bonding NICs' switch on the host in high availability network environment and making physic network devices aware of the NIC's switch.