For information on deploying flannel manually, using the Kubernetes installer toolkit kubeadm, see Installing Kubernetes on Linux with kubeadm.
NOTE: If kubeadm
is used, then pass --pod-network-cidr=10.244.0.0/16
to kubeadm init
to ensure that the podCIDR
is set.
The flannel
manifest defines four things:
- A ClusterRole and ClusterRoleBinding for role based acccess control (RBAC).
- A service account for
flannel
to use. - A ConfigMap containing both a CNI configuration and a
flannel
configuration. Thenetwork
in theflannel
configuration should match the pod network CIDR. The choice ofbackend
is also made here and defaults to VXLAN. - A DaemonSet for every architecture to deploy the
flannel
pod on each Node. The pod has two containers 1) theflannel
daemon itself, and 2) an initContainer for deploying the CNI configuration to a location that thekubelet
can read.
When you run pods, they will be allocated IP addresses from the pod network CIDR. No matter which node those pods end up on, they will be able to communicate with each other.
flannel.alpha.coreos.com/public-ip-overwrite
: Allows to overwrite the public IP of a node. Useful if the public IP can not determined from the node, e.G. because it is behind a NAT. It can be automatically set to a nodesExternalIP
using the flannel-node-annotator
kube-flannel.yaml
has some features that aren't compatible with older versions of Kubernetes, though flanneld itself should work with any version of Kubernetes.
If you see errors saying found invalid field...
when you try to apply kube-flannel.yaml
then you can try the "legacy" manifest file
kubectl apply -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/coreos/flannel/master/Documentation/k8s-manifests/kube-flannel-legacy.yml
This file does not bundle RBAC permissions. If you need those, run
kubectl apply -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/coreos/flannel/master/Documentation/k8s-manifests/kube-flannel-rbac.yml
If you didn't apply the kube-flannel-rbac.yml
manifest and you need to, you'll see errors in your flanneld logs about failing to connect.
Failed to create SubnetManager: error retrieving pod spec...
kube-flannel.yaml
uses ClusterRole
& ClusterRoleBinding
of rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1
. When you use Kubernetes v1.16, you should replace rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1
to rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1beta1
because rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1
had become GA from Kubernetes v1.17.
The flannel CNI plugin can be found in the CNI plugins repository. For additional details, see the README
Kubernetes 1.6 requires CNI plugin version 0.5.1 or later.
See troubleshooting