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cumulusnetworks/crohdad

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•Updated almost 9 years ago

Cumulus Routing on the Host Docker Advertisement Daemon (CRoHDAd)

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⁠Cumulus Networks CRoHDAd Container

The container is designed to be run on Linux hosts in privileged mode. It can be used to advertise other Docker Containers as they are created on the host, into a routed IP fabric. In effect the CRoHDAd daemon is listening to the Docker-engine API and adding newly created container host-routes to a separate Linux Kernel Routing Table. This table is then redistributed into any routing protocol such as BGP or OSPF. This routing protocol can be running inside of another privileged container or baremetal. Compatible and tested with Quagga/FRR, may also be compatible with Bird but untested.

To run the container:

$ docker run -t -d --net=host --privileged \
     -v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock \
     -v /etc/iproute2/rt_tables:/etc/iproute2/rt_tables \
     -v /dev/log:/dev/log \
    --name crohdad cumulusnetworks/crohdad

The usage below will disable syslog messages from being sent to the host.

To run the container without syslogs being sent to the host:

$ docker run -t -d --net=host --privileged \
     -v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock \
     -v /etc/iproute2/rt_tables:/etc/iproute2/rt_tables \
    --name crohdad cumulusnetworks/crohdad -l

To see the host-routes the CRoHDAd container is aware of check the logs for the container. $ docker logs crohdad

To see all Options: The CRoHDAd daemon has a number of different options that can be specified. By default it starts with one option '-l' to see all available options run the following command.

'docker run -it --name=crohdad cumulusnetworks/crohdad:latest -h'

Example Output

docker run -it --name=crohdad cumulusnetworks/crohdad:latest -h
RUNNING CRoHDAd: /root/crohdad.py -h &
usage: crohdad.py [-h] [-d] [-f] [-l] [-t TABLE_NUMBER] [-n] [-s SUBNETS] [-v]

Cumulus Routing on the Host Docker Advertisement Daemon (CRoHDAD) -- A Daemon
to advertise Docker container IP addresses into Routing Fabrics running with
Quagga/FRR.

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -d, --debug           enables verbose logging output.
  -f, --no-flush-routes
                        disables table flush of existing host-routes at
                        startup.
  -l, --log-to-syslog-off
                        disable logging to syslog.
  -t TABLE_NUMBER, --table_number TABLE_NUMBER
                        route table number to add/remove host routes (see:
                        /etc/iproute2/rt_tables). Default is 30
  -n, --no-add-on-start
                        automatically detects existing containers and adds
                        their host routes upon initial script start-up.
  -s SUBNETS, --subnets SUBNETS
                        Allows the user to specify the acceptable container
                        subnets which can be advertised via CRoHDAD when seen
                        on containers. Defaults to advertising everything.
                        example ./crohdad.py --subnets 172.19.0.0/24 --subnets
                        172.17.0.0/24
  -v, --version         Using this option displays the version of CRoHDAd and
                        exits.


[hit enter key to exit] or run 'docker stop <container>'

To see a Vagrant based demo of the CRoHDAd container in action visit the following link: https://github.com/CumulusNetworks/cldemo-roh-dad⁠

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