Flannel

This document describes how to use Flannel as your CNI solution. By default, the CNI plugin is not installed for self-managed clusters, so you have to install your own (e.g. Calico with VXLAN)

Modify the Cluster resources

Before deploying the cluster, change the KubeadmControlPlane value at spec.kubeadmConfigSpec.clusterConfiguration.controllerManager.extraArgs.allocate-node-cidrs to "true"

apiVersion: controlplane.cluster.x-k8s.io/v1beta1
kind: KubeadmControlPlane
spec:
  kubeadmConfigSpec:
    clusterConfiguration:
      controllerManager:
        extraArgs:
          allocate-node-cidrs: "true"

Modify Flannel Config

(NOTE): This is based off of the instruction at: deploying-flannel-manually

You need to make an adjustment to the default flannel configuration so that the CIDR inside your CAPG cluster matches the Flannel Network CIDR.

View your capi-cluster.yaml and make note of the Cluster Network CIDR Block. For example:

apiVersion: cluster.x-k8s.io/v1beta1
kind: Cluster
spec:
  clusterNetwork:
    pods:
      cidrBlocks:
      - 192.168.0.0/16

Download the file at https://raw.githubusercontent.com/coreos/flannel/master/Documentation/kube-flannel.yml and modify the kube-flannel-cfg ConfigMap. Set the value at data.net-conf.json.Network value to match your Cluster Network CIDR Block.

wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/coreos/flannel/master/Documentation/kube-flannel.yml

Edit kube-flannel.yml and change this section so that the Network section matches your Cluster CIDR

kind: ConfigMap
apiVersion: v1
metadata:
  name: kube-flannel-cfg
data:
  net-conf.json: |
    {
      "Network": "192.168.0.0/16",
      "Backend": {
        "Type": "vxlan"
      }
    }

Apply kube-flannel.yml

kubectl apply -f kube-flannel.yml