Support of Route reflector type deployment
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Calico Charm |
Fix Released
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Wishlist
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George Kraft |
Bug Description
It would be nice if Calico charm can configure it for Route reflector type deployment in addition to Full node-to-node mesh type deployment. Route reflector is targeted for very large clusters.
Node-to-node mesh
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> The full node-to-node mesh provides a simple mechanism for auto-configuring the BGP network in small scale deployments (say 50 nodes—although this limit is not set in stone and Calico has been deployed with over 100 nodes in a full mesh topology).
Route reflector function
> A Calico node can be configured to act as a route reflector for other Calico nodes, at the same time as originating routes for its own workloads. This is enabled by setting the Node’s spec.bgp.
The configuration steps are described in:
https:/
Changed in charm-calico: | |
status: | Fix Committed → Fix Released |
This work is under way. It was begun in the 19.04 cycle and is nearing completion, although we haven't committed to a release date yet. You can read more about the design here: https:/ /docs.google. com/document/ d/1U7IqGMGmW_ u0EQ7CJXaw03BKp ZL5G6_wxzxya1tx x1w/edit# heading= h.b39q9v65qfgk