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+title: "Using KIND to emulate complex network scenarios"
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+    parent: "user"
+    identifier: "networking-scenarios"
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+# Using KIND to emulate complex network scenarios [Linux Only]
+
+KIND runs Kubernetes cluster in Docker, and leverages Docker networking for all the network features: portmapping, IPv6, containers connectivity, ...
+
+## Docker Networking
+
+<img src="/docs/user/images/kind-docker-network.png"/>
+
+KIND uses [the default docker bridge network](https://docs.docker.com/network/bridge/#use-the-default-bridge-network).
+
+It creates a bridge named **docker0** 
+
+{{< codeFromInline lang="bash" >}}
+$ docker network ls
+NETWORK ID          NAME                DRIVER              SCOPE
+8fb3fa672192        bridge              bridge              local
+0c8d84f52592        host                host                local
+558684a8afb8        none                null                local
+{{< /codeFromInline >}}
+
+with IP address 172.17.0.1/16.
+
+{{< codeFromInline lang="bash" >}}
+$ ip addr show docker0
+4: docker0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc noqueue state UP group default 
+    link/ether 02:42:83:eb:5e:67 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
+    inet 172.17.0.1/16 brd 172.17.255.255 scope global docker0
+       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
+{{< /codeFromInline >}}
+
+Docker also creates iptables NAT rules on the docker host that masquerade the traffic from the containers connected to docker0 bridge to connect to the outside world.
+
+## Kubernetes Networking
+
+<img src="/docs/user/images/kind-kubernetes-network-kindnet.png"/>
+
+[The Kubernetes network model](https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/cluster-administration/networking/#the-kubernetes-network-model) implies end to end connectivity without NAT between Pods.
+
+By default, KIND uses its own CNI plugin, **Kindnet**, that install the corresponding routes and iptables rules on the cluster nodes.
+
+## Services
+
+[Kubernetes Services](https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/services-networking/service/) are an abstract way to expose an application running on a set of Pods as a network service.
+
+The are different types of Services:
+
+* Cluster IP
+* NodePort
+* LoadBalancer
+* Headless
+* ExternalName
+
+In Linux hosts, you can access directly the Cluster IP address of the services just adding one route to the configured **serviceSubnet** parameters via any of the nodes that belong to the cluster, so there is no need to use NodePort or LoadBalancer services.
+
+## Multiple clusters
+
+As we explained before, all KIND clusters are sharing the same docker network, that means that all the cluster nodes have direct connectivity.
+
+If we want to spawn multiple clusters and provide Pod to Pod connectivity between different clusters, first we have to configure the cluster networking parameters to avoid address overlapping.
+
+### Example: Kubernetes multi-region
+
+Let's take an example emulating 2 clusters: A and B.
+
+For cluster A we are going to use the following network parameters:
+
+{{< codeFromInline lang="bash" >}}
+cat <<EOF | kind create cluster --name clusterA --config=-
+kind: Cluster
+apiVersion: kind.x-k8s.io/v1alpha4
+networking:
+  podSubnet: "10.110.0.0/16"
+  serviceSubnet: "10.115.0.0/16"
+nodes:
+- role: control-plane
+- role: worker
+EOF
+{{< /codeFromInline >}}
+
+And Cluster B:
+
+{{< codeFromInline lang="bash" >}}
+cat <<EOF | kind create cluster --name clusterB --config=-
+kind: Cluster
+apiVersion: kind.x-k8s.io/v1alpha4
+networking:
+  podSubnet: "10.220.0.0/16"
+  serviceSubnet: "10.225.0.0/16"
+nodes:
+- role: control-plane
+- role: worker
+EOF
+{{< /codeFromInline >}}
+
+All the nodes in each cluster will have routes to the podsSubnets assigned to the nodes of the same cluster.
+If we want to provide Pod to Pod connectivity between different clusters we just have to do the same in each node.
+
+We can obtain the routes using kubectl:
+
+{{< codeFromInline lang="bash" >}}
+$ kubectl --context kind-clusterA get nodes -o=jsonpath='{range .items[*]}{"ip route add "}{.spec.podCIDR}{" via "}{.status.addresses[?(@.type=="InternalIP")].address}{"\n"}{end}'
+ip route add 10.110.0.0/24 via 172.17.0.4
+ip route add 10.110.1.0/24 via 172.17.0.3
+ip route add 10.110.2.0/24 via 172.17.0.2
+
+$kubectl --context kind-clusterB get nodes -o=jsonpath='{range .items[*]}{"ip route add "}{.spec.podCIDR}{" via "}{.status.addresses[?(@.type=="InternalIP")].address}{"\n"}{end}'
+ip route add 10.120.0.0/24 via 172.17.0.7
+ip route add 10.120.1.0/24 via 172.17.0.6
+ip route add 10.120.2.0/24 via 172.17.0.5
+
+{{< /codeFromInline >}}
+
+Then we just need to install the routes obtained from cluterA in each node of clusterB and viceversa:
+
+{{< codeFromInline lang="bash" >}}
+for c in "clusterA clusterB"; do
+  for n in $(kind get nodes --name ${c}); do
+  # Add static routes to the pods in the other cluster
+  docker exec ${n} ip route add <POD_SUBNET> via <NODE_IP>
+  # Add static route to the service in the other cluster
+  # We just need to add one route only for services
+  docker exec ${n} ip route add <SCV_SUBNET> via <NODE_IP>
+  ...
+done
+{{< /codeFromInline >}}
+
+### Example: Emulate external VMs
+
+By default Docker will attach all containers to the **docker0** bridge:
+
+{{< codeFromInline lang="bash" >}}
+$ docker run -d --name alpine alpine tail -f /dev/null
+8b94e9dabea847c004ce9fd7a69cdbc82eb93e31857c25c0a8872706efb08a4d
+$ docker exec -it alpine ip a
+1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN qlen 1000
+    link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
+    inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo
+       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
+    inet6 ::1/128 scope host 
+       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
+10: eth0@if11: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP,M-DOWN> mtu 1500 qdisc noqueue state UP 
+    link/ether 02:42:ac:11:00:03 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
+    inet 172.17.0.3/16 brd 172.17.255.255 scope global eth0
+{{< /codeFromInline >}}
+
+That means that Pods will be able to reach other Docker containers that does not belong to any KIND cluster, however, the Docker container will not be able to answer to the Pod IP address until we install the correspoding routes.
+
+We can solve it installing routes in the new containers to the Pod Subnets in each Node.
+
+### Example: Multiple network interfaces and Multi-Home Nodes
+
+There can be scenarios that requite multiple interfaces in the KIND nodes to test multi-homing, VLANS, CNI plugins, ... 
+
+Typically, you will want to use loopback addresses for communication. We can configure those loopback addresses after the cluster has been created, and then modify the Kubernetes components to use them.
+
+When creating the cluster we must add the loopback IP address of the control plane to the certificate SAN (the apiserver binds to "all-interfaces" by default):
+
+```yaml
+kind: Cluster
+apiVersion: kind.x-k8s.io/v1alpha4
+# add the loopback to apiServer cert SANS
+kubeadmConfigPatchesJSON6902:
+- group: kubeadm.k8s.io
+  kind: ClusterConfiguration
+  patch: |
+    - op: add
+      path: /apiServer/certSANs/-
+      value: my-loopback
+```
+
+In order to create the network interfaces, you can use tools like [koko](https://github.com/redhat-nfvpe/koko) to create new networking interfaces on the KIND nodes, you can check several examples of creating complex topologies with containers in this repo https://github.com/aojea/frr-lab.
+
+Other alternative is [using Docker user defined bridges](https://docs.docker.com/network/bridge/#connect-a-container-to-a-user-defined-bridge):
+
+```sh
+LOOPBACK_PREFIX="1.1.1."
+MY_BRIDGE="my_net2"
+MY_ROUTE=10.0.0.0/24
+MY_GW=172.16.17.1
+# Create 2nd network
+docker network create ${MY_BRIDGE}
+# Configure nodes to use the second network
+for n in $(kind get nodes); do
+  # Connect the node to the second network
+  docker network connect ${MY_BRIDGE} ${n}
+  # Configure a loopback address
+  docker exec ${n} ip addr add ${LOOPBACK_PREFIX}${i}/32 dev lo
+  # Add static routes
+  docker exec ${n} ip route add ${MY_ROUTE} via {$MY_GW}
+done
+```
+
+After the cluster has been created, we have to modify, in the control-plane node,  the kube-apiserver `--advertise-address` flag in the static pod manifest in `/etc/kubernetes/manifests/kube-apiserver.yaml` (once you write the file it restarts the pod with the new config):
+
+```yaml
+apiVersion: v1
+kind: Pod
+metadata:
+  creationTimestamp: null
+  labels:
+    component: kube-apiserver
+    tier: control-plane
+  name: kube-apiserver
+  namespace: kube-system
+spec:
+  containers:
+  - command:
+    - kube-apiserver
+    - --advertise-address=172.17.0.4
+```
+
+and then change in all the nodes the kubelet `node-ip` flag:
+
+```
+root@kind-worker:/# more /var/lib/kubelet/kubeadm-flags.env 
+KUBELET_KUBEADM_ARGS="--container-runtime=remote --container-runtime-endpoint=/run/containerd/containerd.sock --fail-swap-on=false --node-ip=172.17.0.4"
+ ```
+
+and restart them `systemctl restart kubelet` to use the new config
+