Networking should be transparent to you. 

If you have standard (runc) containers working but see failures with Kata, then this is an issue. 

Can you please verify your setup as a first step?

Eric

On Nov 20, 2019, at 8:41 AM, Al Lau <lauatic@gmail.com> wrote:



Q1. Are these all kata-container VMs

Yes.  These are all kata-containers VMs. 

 

Q2. Are you using some standard container networking infra, like CNI, to link them together?

Yes.  We use the CNI and set up a new bridge plugin in /etc/cni/net.d/ directory.  This is what I have already done.  I'm still debugging the issue I'm facing in getting the VMs to communicate.


Thanks,

Al


On Wed, Nov 20, 2019 at 8:18 AM Whaley, Graham <graham.whaley@intel.com> wrote:

I won’t have the answers, but some questions to help clarify…

 

Q1. Are these all kata-container VMs

 

Q2. Are you using some standard container networking infra, like CNI, to link them together?

 

Afaik, kata should ‘just work’ if sat under a CNI setup.

 

Kata has a number of ways it can discover/config/integrate with the networking passed in from the higher levels – iirc, we default to using ‘tcfilter’ at the moment. Have a look in the config file for some more info.

https://github.com/kata-containers/runtime/blob/master/cli/config/configuration-qemu.toml.in#L378

 

bottom line is I think, if the higher level orchestration has set up the networking correctly as it would for say ‘runc’, then kata should pick that up and translate/re-configure it into the VM and host side so it works ‘seamlessly’.

 

Graham

 

From: Al Lau [mailto:lauatic@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, November 20, 2019 3:27 PM
To: kata-dev@lists.katacontainers.io
Subject: [kata-dev] Networking between containers in qemu processes

 

Hi,

I'm looking for information on how to set up communication between containers running within virtual machines.  On a host, there are multiple VMs with containers and set up networking between the containers in different VMs.

 

Thanks,

Al

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