Allow Calico networking on Azure and DigitalOcean #472
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I'm documenting use of Calico on Azure and DigitalOcean (i.e. VXLAN) mode as experimental. It does work, but my sense from testing is that this is quite early. On DigitalOcean, I've seen Calico restart a decent amount and raise node resource usage. On Azure, I've seen variable bandwidth, but some of this is hard to isolate from the lower reliability/consistency of Azure itself. Officially, Azure and DO aren't marked as stable and this feature is marked as experimental. I feel alright about it. I'll be using the new Calico mode over coming weeks and see how it fares. Calico (IPIP) remains as stable and reliable as ever on AWS, GCP, and bare-metal. |
* Introduce "calico" as a `networking` option on Azure and DigitalOcean using Calico's new VXLAN support (similar to flannel). Flannel remains the default on these platforms for now. * Historically, DigitalOcean and Azure only allowed Flannel as the CNI provider, since those platforms don't support IPIP traffic that was previously required for Calico. * Looking forward, its desireable for Calico to become the default across Typhoon clusters, since it provides NetworkPolicy and a consistent experience * No changes to AWS, GCP, or bare-metal where Calico remains the default CNI provider. On these platforms, IPIP mode will always be used, since its available and more performant than vxlan
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networkingoption on Azure and DigitalOcean using Calico's new VXLAN support (similar to flannel). Flannel remains the default on these platforms for now.