Installing IPAM as Deployment

This section will show how IPAM can be installed as a deployment in a cluster.

Deploying controllers

CAPI and IPAM controllers need to be deployed at the begining. The IPAM controller has a dependency on Cluster API Cluster objects. CAPI CRDs and controllers must be deployed and the cluster objects should exist for successful deployments.

Deployment

The user can create the IPPool object independently. It will wait for its cluster to exist before reconciling. If the user wants to create IPAddress objects manually, they should be created before any claims. It is highly recommended to use the preAllocations field itself or have the reconciliation paused.

After an IPClaim object creation, the controller will list all existing IPAddress objects. It will then select randomly an address that has not been allocated yet and is not in the preAllocations map. It will then create an IPAddress object containing the references to the IPPool and IPClaim and the address, the prefix from the address pool or the default prefix, and the gateway from the address pool or the default gateway.

Deploy IPAM

Deploys IPAM CRDs and IPAM controllers. We can run Makefile target from inside the cloned IPAM git repo.

    make deploy

Run locally

Runs IPAM controller locally

    kubectl scale -n capm3-system deployment.v1.apps/metal3-ipam-controller-manager \
      --replicas 0
    make run

Deploy an example pool

    make deploy-examples

Delete the example pool

    make delete-examples

Deletion

When deleting an IPClaim object, the controller will simply delete the associated IPAddress object. Once all IPAddress objects have been deleted, the IPPool object can be deleted. Before that point, the finalizer in the IPPool object will block the deletion.

References

  1. IPAM.
  2. IPAM deployment workflow.
  3. Custom resource (CR) examples in metal3-dev-env, in the templates.