Cilium integration with Flannel (beta)

If you have a cluster already set up with Flannel you will not need to install Flannel again.

This Cilium integration with Flannel was performed with Flannel 0.10.0 and Kubernetes >= 1.9. If you find any issues with previous Flannel versions please feel free to reach out to us to help you.

Note

This is a beta feature. Please provide feedback and file a GitHub issue if you experience any problems.

Wait until all pods to be in ready state before preceding to the next step.

Note

First, make sure you have Helm 3 installed.

If you have (or planning to have) Helm 2 charts (and Tiller) in the same cluster, there should be no issue as both version are mutually compatible in order to support . Cilium chart is targeting Helm 3 (v3.0.3 and above).

Deploy Cilium release via Helm:

Set if you want Cilium to uninstall itself when the Cilium pod is stopped.

If the Flannel bridge has a different name than cni0, you must specify the name by setting .

Cilium might not come up immediately on all nodes, since Flannel only sets up the bridge network interface that connects containers with the outside world when the first container is created on that node. In this case, Cilium will wait until that bridge is created before marking itself as Ready.