plugins

Some CNI network plugins, maintained by the containernetworking team. For more information, see the individual READMEs.

Read CONTRIBUTING for build and test instructions.

Plugins supplied:

Main: interface-creating

bridge: Creates a bridge, adds the host and the container to it.
ipvlan: Adds an ipvlan interface in the container.
loopback: Set the state of loopback interface to up.
macvlan: Creates a new MAC address, forwards all traffic to that to the container.
ptp: Creates a veth pair.
vlan: Allocates a vlan device.

Windows: windows specific

win-bridge: Creates a bridge, adds the host and the container to it.
win-overlay: Creates an overlay interface to the container.

IPAM: IP address allocation

dhcp: Runs a daemon on the host to make DHCP requests on behalf of the container
host-local: maintains a local database of allocated IPs

Meta: other plugins

flannel: generates an interface corresponding to a flannel config file
tuning: Tweaks sysctl parameters of an existing interface
portmap: An iptables-based portmapping plugin. Maps ports from the host's address space to the container.

Sample

The sample plugin provides an example for building your own plugin.