Goal
Sdewan config agent is the controller of Sdewan CRDs. With the config agent, we are able to deploy CNFs. In this page, we have the following terms, let's define them here.
- CNF pod: A pod running network function process(openWRT). The pod could be managed under deployment.
- Sdewan rule: The rule defines the CNF behaves. We have 3 classes of rules: mwan3, firewall, ipsec. Each class includes several kinds of rules. For example, mwan3 has 2 kinds: mwan3_policy and mwan3_rule. Firewall has 5 kinds: firewall_zone, firewall_snat, firewall_dnat, firewall_forwarding, firewall_rule. Ipsec has xx(ruoyu) kinds: xx, xx.
- Sdewan rule CRD: The CRD defines each kind of sdewan rule. For each kind of Sdewan rule, we have a Sdewan rule CRD. Sdewan rule CRD is namespaced resource.
- Sdewan rule CR: Instance of Sdewan rule CRD.
- Sdewan controller: The controller watching Sdewan rule CRs.
- CNF: A network function running in container.
To deploy a CNF, user needs to create a CNF pod and some Sdewan rule CRs. In a Kubernetes namespace, there could be more than one CNF pod and many Sdewan rule CRs.
We use label to correlate one CNF with some Sdewan rule CRs. The Sdewan controller watches Sdewan rule CRs and applies them onto the correlated CNF pod by calling CNF REST api.
Sdwan Design Principle
- There could be multiple tenants/namespaces in a Kubernetes cluster. User may deploy multiple CNFs in any one or more tenants.
- One Sdewan instance contains only one pod in this release. There could be two pods in future releases for active/backup case
- CNF pod and Sdewan rule CRs can be created/updated/deleted in any order
- The Sdewan controller and CNF pod could be down sometimes for some reasons. We need to handle these scenarios
- Each Sdewan rule CR has labels to identify the type it belongs to. 3 types are available at this time:
basic
,app-intend
andk8s-service
. We extend k8s user role permission so that we can set user permission on type level of Sdewan rule CR - Sdewan rule CR dependencies are checked on creating/updating/deleting. For example, if we create a mwan3_rule CR which uses policy
policy-x
, but no mwan3_policy CR namedpolicy-x
exists. Then we block the request
CNF pod
In this section we describe what the CNF pod should be like.
- CNF pod should has multiple network interfaces attached. We use multus and ovn4nfv CNIs to enable multiple interfaces. So in the CNF pod yaml, we set annotations:
k8s.v1.cni.cncf.io/networks
,k8s.plugin.opnfv.org/nfn-network
. - When user deploys a CNF, she/he most likely want to deploy the CNF on a specified node instead of a random node. Because some nodes may don't have provider network connected. So we set
spec.nodeSelector
in the pod yaml - CNF pod runs openWRT in ICN. We use image
integratedcloudnative/openwrt:dev
- CNF pod should setup with rediness probe. Sdewan controller would check pod readiness before calling CNF REST api.
apiVersion: v1 kind: Pod metadata: annotations: k8s.plugin.opnfv.org/nfn-network: |- { "type": "ovn4nfv", "interface": [ { "defaultGateway": "false", "interface": "net0", "name": "ovn-priv-net" } ]} k8s.plugin.opnfv.org/ovnInterfaces: '[{"ip_address":"172.16.44.2/24", "mac_address":"0a:00:00:00:00:01", "gateway_ip": "172.16.44.1","defaultGateway":"false","interface":"net0"}]' k8s.v1.cni.cncf.io/networks: '[{ "name": "ovn-networkobj"}]' k8s.v1.cni.cncf.io/networks-status: |- [{ "name": "cni0", "interface": "eth0", "ips": [ "10.244.64.26" ], "mac": "0a:58:0a:f4:40:1a", "default": true, "dns": {} },{ "name": "ovn4nfv-k8s-plugin", "interface": "net0", "ips": [ "172.16.44.2" ], "mac": "0a:00:00:00:00:01", "dns": {} }] name: cnf-pod-1 namespace: default labels: sdewanPurpose: cnf-1 spec: containers: - command: - /bin/sh - /tmp/sdewan/entrypoint.sh image: integratedcloudnative/openwrt:dev name: sdewan readinessProbe: failureThreshold: 5 httpGet: path: / port: 80 scheme: HTTP initialDelaySeconds: 5 periodSeconds: 5 successThreshold: 1 timeoutSeconds: 1 securityContext: privileged: true procMount: Default volumeMounts: - mountPath: /tmp/sdewan name: example-sdewan readOnly: true - mountPath: /var/run/secrets/kubernetes.io/serviceaccount name: default-token-7t7fh readOnly: true dnsPolicy: ClusterFirst nodeName: ubuntu18 nodeSelector: kubernetes.io/hostname: ubuntu18
Sdewan rule CRs
CRD defines all properties of a resource, but it's not human friendly. So we paste Sdewan rule CR samples instead of CRDs.
- Each Sdewan rule CR has a label named
sdewanPurpose
to indicate which CNF should the rule be applied onto - Each Sdewan rule CR has the
status
field which indicates if the latest rule is applied and when it's applied Mwan3Policy.spec.members[].network
should match the networks defined in CNF pod annotationk8s.plugin.opnfv.org/nfn-network
. As well asFirewallZone.spec[].network
CR samples of Mwan3 type:
apiVersion: batch.sdewan.akraino.org/v1alpha1 kind: Mwan3Policy metadata: name: balance1 namespace: default labels: sdewanPurpose: cnf-1 resourceVersion: "2" spec: members: - network: ovn-net1 weight: 2 metric: 2 - network: ovn-net2 weight: 3 metric: 3 status: appliedVersion: "2" appliedTime: "2020-03-29T04:21:48Z"
apiVersion: batch.sdewan.akraino.org/v1alpha1 kind: Mwan3Rule metadata: name: mwan3rule-1 namespace: default labels: sdewanPurpose: cnf-1 resourceVersion: "2" spec: name: http policy: balance1 dest_ip: 0.0.0.0/0 dest_port: 80 status: appliedVersion: "2" appliedTime: "2020-03-29T04:21:48Z"
CR samples of Firewall type:
apiVersion: batch.sdewan.akraino.org/v1alpha1 kind: FirewallZone metadata: name: zone-1 namespace: default labels: sdewanPurpose: cnf-1 resourceVersion: "2" spec: - name: lan1 newtork: - ovn-net1 input: ACCEPT output: ACCEPT - name: wan1 network: - ovn-net2 input: REJECT output: ACCEPT status: appliedVersion: "2" appliedTime: "2020-03-29T04:21:48Z"
apiVersion: batch.sdewan.akraino.org/v1alpha1 kind: FirewallRule metadata: name: reject_80 namespace: default labels: sdewanPurpose: cnf-1 resourceVersion: "2" spec: src: lan1 src_ip: 192.168.1.2 src_port: 80 proto: tcp target: REJECT status: appliedVersion: "2" appliedTime: "2020-03-29T04:21:48Z"
apiVersion: batch.sdewan.akraino.org/v1alpha1 kind: FirewallSNAT metadata: name: snat_lan1 namespace: default labels: sdewanPurpose: cnf-1 resourceVersion: "2" spec: src: lan1 src_ip: 192.168.1.2 src_dip: 1.2.3.4 dest: wan1 proto: icmp status: appliedVersion: "2" appliedTime: "2020-03-29T04:21:48Z"
apiVersion: batch.sdewan.akraino.org/v1alpha1 kind: FirewallDNAT metadata: name: dnat_wan1 namespace: default labels: sdewanPurpose: cnf-1 resourceVersion: "2" spec: src: wan1 src_dport: 19900 dest: lan1 dest_ip: 192.168.1.1 dest_port: 22 proto: tcp status: appliedVersion: "2" appliedTime: "2020-03-29T04:21:48Z"
apiVersion: batch.sdewan.akraino.org/v1alpha1 kind: FirewallForwarding metadata: name: forwarding_lan_to_wan namespace: default labels: sdewanPurpose: cnf-1 resourceVersion: "2" spec: src: lan1 dest: wan1 status: appliedVersion: "2" appliedTime: "2020-03-29T04:21:48Z"
CR samples of IPSec type(ruoyu):
Sdewan rule CRD Reconcile Logic
As we have many kinds of CRDs, they have almost the same reconcile logic. So we only describe the Mwan3Rule logic.
Mwan3Rule Reconcile could be triggered by the following cases:
- Create/Update/Delete Mwan3Rule CR
- CNF pod ready status change (With predicate feature, we can only watch
.status.containerStatuses[0].ready
field of CNF pod. With enqueueRequestsFromMapFunc, we can enqueue all Mwan3Rule CRs with specifiedlabels.sdewanPurpose
, if CNF pod's.status.containerStatuses[0].ready
changes)- CNF pod becomes ready after creating
- CNF pod becomes ready after restart
- CNF pod becomes not-ready after crash
Mwan3Rule Reconcile flow:
def Mwan3RuleReconciler.Reconcile(req ctrl.Request): rule_cr = k8sClient.get(req.NamespacedName) cnf_pod = k8sClient.get_pod_with_label(rule_cr.labels.sdewanPurpose) if rule_cr DeletionTimestamp exists: # The CR is being deleted. finalizer on the CR if cnf_pod exists: if cnf_pod is ready: err = openwrt_client.delete_rule(cnf_pod_ip, rule_cr) if err: return "re-queue req" else: rule_cr.finalizer = nil else: return "re-queue req" else: # Just remove finalizer, because no CNF pod exists rule_cr.finalizer = nil else: # The CR is not being deleted if cnf_pod not exist: return else: if cnf_pod not ready: return "re-queue req" else: if dependencies mwan3_policy not applied: return "re-queue req" else: err = openwrt_client.add_or_update_rule(cnf_pod_ip, rule_cr) if not err: rule_cr.finalizer = new_finalizer rule_cr.status.appliedVersion = rule_cr.resourceVersion else: return "re-queue req"
Admission Webhook Usage
We use admission webhook to implemention several features.
- Prevent creating more than one CNF of the same lable and the same namespace
- Validate CR dependencies. For example, mwan3 rule depends on mwan3 policy
- Extend user permission to control the operations on rule CRs. For example, we can control that ONAP can't update/delete rule CRs created by platform.
Sdewan rule CR type level Permission Implementation
K8s support permission control on namespace level. For example, user1 may be able to create/update/delete one kind of resource(e.g. pod) in namespace ns1, but not namespace ns2. For Sdewan, this can't fit our requirement. We want label level control of Sdewan rule CRs. For example, user_onap can create/update/delete Mwan3Rule CR of label sdewan-bucket-type=app-intent
, but not label sdewan-bucket-type=basic
.
Let me first describe the extended permission system and then explain how we implement it. In k8s, user or serviceAccount could be bonded to one or more roles. The roles defines the permissions, for example the following role defines that sdewan-test
role can create/update Mwan3Rule CRs in default
namespace. Also sdewan-test
role can get Mwan3Policy CRs.
apiVersion: rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1 kind: Role metadata: annotations: name: sdewan-test namespace: default rules: - apiGroups: - "" resources: - mwan3rules verbs: - create - update - apiGroups: - "" resources: - mwan3policies verbs: - get
We extend the Role with annotations. In the annotation, we can define labled based permissions. For example, the following role extends sdewan-test
role permission: sdewan-test
can only create/update Mwan3Rule CRs with label sdewan-bucket-type=app-intent
or sdewan-bucket-type=k8s-service
. Also it can only get Mwan3Policy CR with label sdewan-bucket-type=app-intent
.
apiVersion: rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1 kind: Role metadata: annotations: sdewan-bucket-type-permission: |- { "mwan3rules": ["app-intent", "k8s-service"], "mwan3policies": ["app-intent"] } name: sdewan-test namespace: default rules: - apiGroups: - "" resources: - mwan3rules verbs: - create - update - apiGroups: - "" resources: - mwan3policies verbs: - get
We use admission webhook to implement the type level permission control. Let me describe how admission webhook in simple words. When k8s api receives a request, kube-api call webhook API before save the object into etcd. If the webhook returns allowed=true
, kube-api continues to persistent the object into etcd. Otherwise, kube-api reject the request. The webhook can optional tell kube-api to update the object together with allowed=true
returned. Webhook request body has a field named userInfo, it indicates who is making the k8s api request. With this field, we can implement the extended permission in webhook.
def mwan3rule_webhook_handle_permission(req admission.Request): userinfo = req["userInfo] mwan3rule_cr = decode(req) roles = k8s_client.get_role_from_user(userinfo) for role in roles: if mwan3rule_cr.labels.sdewan-bucket-type in role.annotation.sdewan-bucket-type-permission.mwan3rules: return {"allowd": True} return {"allowd": False}
ServiceRule controller (For next release)
We create a controller watches the services created in the cluster. For each service, it creates a FirewallDNAT CR. On controller startup, it makes a syncup to remove unused CRs.
References
- https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/controller-runtime/blob/master/pkg/doc.go
- https://book.kubebuilder.io/reference/using-finalizers.html
- https://godoc.org/sigs.k8s.io/controller-runtime/pkg/predicate#example-Funcs
- https://godoc.org/sigs.k8s.io/controller-runtime/pkg/handler#example-EnqueueRequestsFromMapFunc