Using high performance multicast

    The OpenShift SDN default Container Network Interface (CNI) network provider supports multicast between pods on the default network. This is best used for low-bandwidth coordination or service discovery, and not high-bandwidth applications. For applications such as streaming media, like Internet Protocol television (IPTV) and multipoint videoconferencing, you can utilize Single Root I/O Virtualization (SR-IOV) hardware to provide near-native performance.

    When using additional SR-IOV interfaces for multicast:

    Using an SR-IOV interface for multicast

    The follow procedure creates an example SR-IOV interface for multicast.

    Prerequisites

    • Install the OpenShift CLI ().

    Procedure

    1. Create a object:

    2. Create a SriovNetwork object: