Contiv

There are two ways to manage Contiv:

• a CLI named

The Web Interface

This UI is hosted on all kubernetes master nodes. The service is available at .

You can configure the api proxy by overriding the following variables:

The Command Line Interface

The second way to modify the Contiv configuration is to use the CLI. To do this, you have to connect to the server and export an environment variable to tell netctl how to connect to the cluster:

The port can be changed by overriding the following variable:

The CLI doesn’t use the authentication process needed by the web interface.

Network configuration

• : an infrastructure network. It allows nodes to access the pods IPs. It is mandatory in a Kubernetes environment that uses VXLAN.

You can change the default network configuration by overriding the variable.

The default forward mode is set to routing and the default network mode is vxlan:

The following is an example of how you can use VLAN instead of VXLAN: